Oddbean

My original post was t specifically about any specific client or person, but since Vanessa replied about Damus I decided to lean in. You and your team have done incredible things for Nostr. But where I used to exclusively use Damus, I now barely ever use it at all. Im not the only user either as I’ve heard that directly from several people. Does that not concern you? The constant app freezing and crashing, the terrible navigation between threads and replies, the failure to load users’ profile data, the failure to show which notes are being replied to, the god awful video player, and I can go on. The gif keyboard comment I make is an ongoing thing I like to bring it up because it’s such a simple fucking thing that every user wants and would use. It’s as basic as image uploads. When I started using Damus you seemed to care about some of these things that users actually needed, but now I don’t see that from Damus. The protocol level stuff you do is no doubt crucial so thank you for that. But Damus is hurting. Users post content and media and interact with each other, and Damus is not great for that. Like I said the original post wasn’t about Damus. There are a lot of people on here with their heads up in the clouds about some imaginary level of Nostr adoption that will never happen if user needs are the priority, and it will probably look different than everyone imagines anyway. So it’s better to build onto what exists and give existing users what they need and ask for. Existing users know the end user experience here better than anyone.