i am not even the least bit surprised that you're doing it alone. this is how it is, even for some of the biggest SW projects out there.
as far as the dev side of Nostr is concerned, i'm less useful than an eager junior dev, because although i could work my ass off on things, i hold back because i've burned out before. but if there's some issue, i can debug. and i've been known to maintain forks of projects with a few patches added in here and there. could make me useful. could also make me annoying as hell.
when i bring up technical issues with the network on here as a nerd, i'm getting more interactions than when i try to use the network as a normal person. a thing i'm noticing. as far as active well-intentioned users are concerned, is it mostly still just the devs of the infrastructure itself who live on here?
ah, you're (on) the dev (team). what do you feel is the main thing that sets the client apart from others?
as far as web clients go, iris.to is doing better than most others so far, which is why i use it.
forcing people to use your particular product, platform or system might work on the short term, but on the long term, this is a losing strategy.
take USB
the USB standard itself doesn't make money
many vendors had to give up their pet projects that would gain them an advantage to make their stuff work with USB
the user is better off for it. all sorts of things can be plugged into a computer these days without needing any setup and it's frankly a miracle.
before USB it was chaos and every device had its own weird cable and driver disk you had to install.
USB is good UX. making up your own standard for things and having a big ego over things is not. the user wants "It Just Works(TM)" and this is why software exists in the first place. only bad programmers neglect the user.
bad UX = various software vendors blaming each other
good UX = various software vendors dropping their massive egos to make it work for the user
good UX = if somebody else broke the standard, compensate
bad UX = blame the guy who broke the standard
user: i don't know what the hell you're talking about. just make my button work. isn't software supposed to be for the users? why would you write software if not for the user?
"clicking a button until it goes away" = good UX
"clicking a button until uh wtf" = bad UX
i clicked "See Thread" in iris.to until the "See Thread" button disappeared... and then i could no longer see my replies in said thread.
you know how it'll say in the classified ad for the second-hand car "maintained by a mechanic"?
well, if you're a seasoned mechanic, this is a red flag. mechanics suck at maintaining their own cars.
similarly, computer programmers suck at maintaining their own computers.
so i wanna see what the hell the computer programmer did to the car (Nostr) before i trust him, since this isn't for a customer.
not for day-to-day use but for getting an overview. i come from a computer background. before i can sit back and let the computer do the work for me, i want to inspect that it's doing that work correctly first.
the global feed is what i want an unfiltered view of
having sex with miners is illegal you know
fanart i drew of the Totoro bus in 2016
sketched in with a pencil, finished with technical marker on plain xerox paper
a hand-drawn animation i made in 2005
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Duration:
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Release Date:
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