For the last two weeks I couldn't enjoy #nostr via #amethyst I kept loging in using my PUB key and forgot that I had to log in using my NSEC key, to use full functionality again. Problem solved!

Nostr Encryption 101.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but holy shit — clean out your air conditioner filters!

Could this be the real reason why Julian Assange was freed? 🤔

#Amethyst v0.88.0: Performance Mode and Performance improvements

This version adds several performance improvements and includes a new UI mode in Settings that is designed for older phones. On that mode, all CPU-based animations are disabled, the use of transparency is minimized and the individually-generated robots are replaced by a static image. We also recommend disabling the Immersive Scrolling when using older phones.

Features:

- Adds performance mode on Settings

- Adds login with NIP-05 address

- Adds outbox relays to zap request: sender, receiver and author relays.

- Adds the NIP-65 relay to zap split tag instead of kind3 relays.

- Adds support for AVIF images

- Adds flare.pub videos to the media tab

- Replaces the post view count for a Share icon in the main feed.

Performance Improvements:

- Centralizes stringResource calls to cache them and avoid disk use

- Removes several unecessary UI states created during rendering

- Moves uncited hashtag parsing to a thread

- Replaces InputButton for ClickableBox to avoid loading colors during rendering

- Switches Social Icons mip-mapped PNGs to faster SVG versions

- Faster calculation of uncited hashtags in content

- Improves the speed of Robohash rendering

- Moves chatroom user group away from immutable sets

- Speeds up long-press Quick Action menus

- Optimizes NIP-11 fetch and avoids requesting twice in the same minute

- Redesigns the UI Components of the relay icons better performance

- Creates a relay flow cache to speed up the relay layout

- Combines hidden and reporting flows in a new cache

- Removes post reports Live data

- Refactors Full Bleed design of the master note

- Unifies Hidden and Report checks between the Video Feed, the Full Bleed Design and the Card layout.

- Adds a hashcode cache to speed up O(1) requests of spam and blocked user public keys

- Minimizes memory alloc by adding a native forEach and Map functions in the event's tag array

- Reduces double launch of co-routines

- Improves memory use of updates to the subscription after EOSE events

- Simplifies intrinsic size calculations for Image Previews and Videos

- Improves rendering time of chat messages

BugFixes:

- Fixes the inconsistency of button animation size in the reaction row

- Fixes the inconsistency of the Zap button graphics

- Fixes the Giftwraps query by EOSE date mismatch

- Fixes the keyboard's Go Button action on new user screen