Oddbean new post about login | logout Trying to use Coracle, Snort, Nostrudel, Nostter in a slightly older computer and everything is super slow and freezing the computer. Web apps are so bad I am even hoping that canvas-based Flutter will eventually replace them. The last time I had seen a webapp made with Flutter it was very bad and slow, but I just saw https://drivechain.live/ and it is actually very good.
yeah @hzrd149 tried ( successfully ) to gaslight me into upgrading my computer but then found the bugs that were making NoStrudel slow. have to say it runs pretty smooth now. ( ~ 350 mbit connection, 32 GB ram )
Did you try Primal? Because they handle most things by using their cache server, it is actually quite light on bandwidth and usage. That said; nostr is a lot of json - old PCs, already having to handle the bloat that is "the web" and then crunching JSON, is probably not the smoothest of mixes. x)
as i said a million times we aren't in competition with facebook. NOSTR isn't for Boomers who are running computers that were $500 at Walmart 10 years ago with specs like Windows 7 and 4 GB of ram. most people who use NOSTR are either gamers or developers and have fast modern computers. however if you have a computer that can play modern games at that point there can be NO excuses if NOSTR is still choppy.
Who’s to say for whom Nostr is for?
Well since i am the most intelligent person on this platform clearly me. If you look at things like pareto principle or the fact that Jews at 0.2% of population run the whole world, or the fact that 150 million people voted in the last election only for their votes to be thrown out like trash ... you will see this is not a game of numbers. the smartest team wins, not the biggest. any person not intelligent enough to have a modern computer is not intelligent enough to matter. now mobile performance on other hand - is a different issue. although i don't use mobile myself most important people do, and NOSTR should provide satisfactory experience for them.
this is a naive take
reality is only billionaire Jews matter on this planet. worrying about people with Celeron CPUs you may as well worry about the opinions of chickens and cows
Well, I'm a Xennial running a 2010 desktop powered by Bodhi Linux 7 (22.04), developing using Hugo (Jamstack ftw!), running my own projects, a blogger, ghostwriter, etc. So, who's saying what about 2010 computers?
go suck some cocks and buy yourself a normal computer FFS.
I noticed that signature verification is so heavy and blocks the UI thread. I believe this can be solved by using a Service Worker (but haven't done it yet). nostr:nevent1qqszsz4k8x6vxntqrugrnhtw6j5jsgw2vmnq9dxwfvl2lztjkq96n9cng37pm
Did you try nostr-wasm? It improves things a little. It also may make sense to delay signature verification a little and do it after everything has been loaded. I'm skeptical of Service Workers, I feel like they're overpromising (just like most of the "web" "features"). Snort at some point got the UI entirely frozen and I couldn't even close the tab, then on Chrome's task manager it said they had a service worker at 100 CPU usage for many minutes and I don't think there was an infinite loop bug there. I had also done something similar in Branle ages ago and it didn't help anything, in fact I think it made things worse.
Y'all need to find some retrocomputing nerds to write Nostr clients. It's one of the best things to happen to the Mastodon community. It might seem like a gimmick, but being able to get ancient computers to work with your network is a great way to offer a variety of access options. https://wedistribute.org/2023/07/mastodon-retro-clients/
Interesting how well and fast @Gossip Client works on older PCs
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