“It’s also why damus will remain functional when your ux-friendly app goes down.”
Sorry man, this is why I stopped using Damus months ago and I’m sure I’m not the only one. The bugs and crashes made it completely unusable. To top it off, user feedback was brushed off and new features completely disappeared.
I’m sure the Damus core principles are excellent and heavily weighted towards censorship resistance, decentralization, sovereignty and the like. It’s just pretty clear that user feedback is not one of them.
I use damus every day and do not have crashes. If there are crashes they are quickly fixed. What feedback did you give which was not received?
Dev has indeed slowed because I am working on a multiplatform client as you rightly criticized. In the meantime i have hired @danieldaquino to work on ios part time. They have implemented:
- new threads
- damus purple
- push notifications (soon)
- many bug fixes
- first aid (contact recovery)
- onboarding (first post, suggestions)
And much more. Also we are much more conservative in adding features. People depend on that for reliability. Pushing new things and breaking things is something we try to avoid.
That’s a lot of words, none of which were “I take user feedback seriously” 😒
Oh we accept feedback, but we are not obliged to implement all feedback, especially if it goes against our core principles. Luckily there are clients who might implement everything you ask them! Thats a pretty cool feature of nostr. Personalized clients.
I wish you the best of luck Will, but I find the way you speak to your active users and people who have supported you financially to be condescending and smug. I’ll be taking your advice and will move on to clients that can balance the whims of their core devs with legitimate user feedback.
The cool aspect of that feature is not the top down part but the bottom up part.
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