Oddbean

The Nostur Report: 2023 in review along with some of my favorite bookmarks and thank you’s. On Jan 4th I clicked on this button and it would eventually become Nostur: https://nostur.com/screenshots/create-xcode.jpg Few know it started because scrolling in Damus was buggy (back then): nostr:note1l3hjzjk2qhud4e5nqr6wrw99705yk6dpf6zhefsg0fearzrwap5sa9we5j After some progress I made my announcement and first post on nostr: nostr:note1tcs2aj6m8hf3fxgp3k83200n3mw7ywnmm9wnmvram96awu45fmrshq2hcy I had been quietly posting updates into an empty void for some time until I got a repost from @aglkm nostr:note19vzu7juak7rhrca85pujh34ndcruw0rt484vkzag7eqv6x4l2mrqfnd8nc then Jack mentioned Nostur once, but then never again 🥲 nostr:note13ytg2xe66a8wn5087gxhc7j230eq3p5c02g6eprux45xqfnkescqwruye0 still grateful for indirectly supporting through @OpenSats, thank you @jack  Pablo said Nostur is fantastic and Nostur started to gain some traction nostr:note1mkecyeqjzfnmk5p8hxpe5wz02h66565pg72cvpdvz79gz5uearhsaef8zk This was at the time when Nostur was still very buggy, so thanks for the encouragement @PABLOF7z back then some of the UX was so bad that if you die on Nostur you die in real life: nostr:note1y37wrgev9g5r2mh6y6l2qd6v7mcpr5pdlz3s8q6j7y5p379s6hvq37euy4 We saw Apple ban zaps and I wrote a Nostur mission nostr:note1dd3zsnd8jpk4l5jrxpv2606vd3ffkv2gfw9j5wgykxv7shlpv8aqrq8zsv @Nellie was the first to discover some sly roundabout way for zaps and share it nostr:note1fq2ee4gygz72hhvzuncst2hwacdqhphuve6qccsqlrwtuy96kalq696mrf People kept losing their follow list in other clients and @The: Daniel⚡️ kept informing them over and over that they can restore with Nostur: nostr:note198rm2s0u7d8vwv2m2cw53xn058m49xdxgzkvwrjqs47w29q0x0ksrpmmhn nostr:note1z2mw5q8afav072aljp7nfrtl9km2ymufpa3qk0xhf4rq0hvp0nmsedz0cq @quentin informed me about NIP-96, a spec for hosting media files and @petri suggested to use WordPress for this. With some help from ChatGPT Nostr Media Uploads for WordPress was born: nostr:note1np9j3g2sy9qxfafppe8qxhhchygu9dfh8snewjzq3jk346hw498qeg2ms6 https://github.com/fabianfabian/nostr-media/releases/tag/0.7-beta The spam problem got solved, with some caveats, which I wrote about in Nostr and the accidental Web of Trust: nostr:note1sy8zw9clylarq732czftdyp59nmh77pv4uuas2fja4c75m7ag98skqslhj And I haven’t posted about this one much yet but it exists: a Swift package to start building your own nostr client: https://github.com/nostur-com/nostr-essentials Finally special thanks to @corndalorian, @🦖, and @petri for pushing Nostur to the limits, finding bugs, suggesting improvements and showing demos like: nostr:note1pmctdvtswxd404ps0rfhzqpdz5glgwc6fy0argm0qgucp832n70s6ewlh2 I know I missed some, I have many bookmarks and I also lost a few migrating to a new system.  I’m not much of a marketeer so I rely on all of you to describe your experiences, thank you all! BTW: if some of the embedded posts are not loading, consider adding an archival relay to your relay settings: wss://relay.nostr.band and wss://a.nos.lol should get you all the posts you need.

It’s better now but I’m still not entirely happy with it, especially considering scrolling is one of the things that started it all. There is still a minuscule hitch sometimes when new cells appear, I get these in both the SmoothTable or the plain LazyVStack lists Switching from UIColllectionView to UITableView using almost the same code seemed to help a bit, or at least got rid of the random flying view animations. but for lists where I don’t need to maintain scroll position or insert cells at the top I still use the regular LazyVStacks

Fabian, I don’t use Nostur but I’m secretly a fan of your work and would love to see more iOS clients from others for Nostr. It’s even more impressive now that you’ve revealed that you built Nostur after observing Damus and wanting to learn Swift. Cool to learn about the Swift package, sounds similar to what we’re building for Nostr SDK. Thank you for all your contributions and I’m excited to see what’s next.

While I’m still primarily a Damus user, Nostur is my go-to client for multi-user management. It’s how I’m able to keep tabs on @Dorado the PupKey Pup, @The Nodestrich ♾️, etc. It also renders long form notes beautifully, and has some other great features that I wish would be followed by other clients. Keep up the innovation! 🔥

A great recap 🔥 Thanks for this and all of your work on Nostur. I assume it's a great client 😂 #AndroidOnly nostr:nevent1qqsfxj7z7add9qh9hagax0zgtyelamf4jrtzxazjdx4cct8jcsxg50qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpxlqhc8xf5u29x5uajd9erh4mpeu90a9xc4yk4vd5hlkn0puhwq7qvzqqqqqqyuejwt2