😎 I want to get video messages done too. It's on my roadmap.
EXCITING NOSTRGRAM UPDATE - AUDIO MESSAGES!
There's a new microphone 🎙️ icon on the NostrGram note editor that lets you record audio messages! Listen to the message I recorded in this note to hear how to use it.
Give it a try at https://nostrgram.co/
Already in NostrGram? Just refresh the page.
👀 ☝️ I think you'll appreciate this update #[2]. Check it out.
EXCITING NOSTRGRAM UPDATE - AUDIO MESSAGES!
There's a new microphone 🎙️ icon on the NostrGram note editor that lets you record audio messages! Listen to the message I recorded in this note to hear how to use it.
Give it a try at https://nostrgram.co/
Already in NostrGram? Just refresh the page.
Do you have a minute to DM and see if we can figure it out? If not, here are some steps to take:
In Chrome (or any Chromium-based browser) open the Developer tools window (where that is depends on the browser. The pic shows where it's at in Chrome. There will be a bunch of red error lines in there because a lot of Nip05 verification sites reject calls from web apps. Ignore those.
Logout and then back in, and watch the Developer window to see if any red error lines pop up when you do so. If you see any, expand the error line and copy/paste all the information it shows into a response here. That will at least tell me where the issue is coming from.
If they're doing what I was doing it could be that they're not gathering data from paid relays because of the spam problem.
The update for NostrGram in testing now restores full follower counts now that it's pulling from a db with the entire Nostr history from all known relays.
Thanks to a suggestion by #[0] NostrGram now shows you the number of accounts a person is following. It's in staging but after around 24 hours of testing will be moved into production. If you want to check out the updates in staging go to:
Okay I updated staging. Check your profile page and let me know what you think.
Lemme see what I can do.
That would be easy to do, but where would the number be displayed?
I'll take a look. I need to overhaul Suggested Follows. With the growth of Nostr there are so many people you follow following so many people that I need to find a better way to process them all that's less memory intensive.
I didn't expect Mongo's BSON storage format to be so much more efficient than MySQL (which I've been using up 'til now). It's about 1/3rd the size on disk for the same number of records. That naturally makes the indexes much more efficient, and Mongo allows multikey indexes that makes querying the tags lightning fast. I'm very impressed with its performance for this use case.
I don't know why I didn't think of it from the beginning. Nostr is a simple, single-document protocol. Mongo is perfect for it. I expanded the event structure so the tags are indexable in Mongo. The performance is jaw-dropping.
Man I had no idea how useful having the most liked reply beneath the note was going to be. When scrolling through the feed it *really* helps, especially if somebody is asking a question or making a point and there's a counter-point to be made or some clarification to add.
Also, when the author replies to their own post NostrGram is now showing the first reply to their own post beneath the post in the feed -- giving you a fuller picture of what's going on.
The new update is lightning fast too (I completely over hauled the database). Friends+ loads super quick now (as does everything else!). I think you'll be very happy with this update.
I'm using a database much more suited to Nostr (MongoDB), which makes the queries much faster and the database much smaller. So I'm reloading everything into the new database from Jan 1st 2022 and tagging all the events with every relay that knows about it. This will allow me to add some relay filtering features that weren't available before.
NostrGram is going to get *so much better* because of this overhaul.
For sure. Paid relays solve the spam problem. It's just funny how recently it was that spam was never an issue -- and then all of a sudden it was.