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 nostr:npub1hw0s9g0u0jpcfezfvcyn86k0k9v0m3x8uj5cr7va478lksysyj6qzl59hh
nostr:note19vzu7juak7rhrca85pujh34ndcruw0rt484vkzag7eqv6x4l2mrqfnd8nc

then Jack mentioned Nostur once, but then never again 🥲 nostr:note13ytg2xe66a8wn5087gxhc7j230eq3p5c02g6eprux45xqfnkescqwruye0
still grateful for indirectly supporting through nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f, thank you nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m

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 nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft

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

nostr:npub1xlam7ac8uu9g5au8ukcmwhe7jal8p2457swa77eupuuv4mwcwh2qgjgrrk 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 nostr:npub1aeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qcq4nwx kept informing them over and over that they can restore with Nostur: nostr:note198rm2s0u7d8vwv2m2cw53xn058m49xdxgzkvwrjqs47w29q0x0ksrpmmhn
nostr:note1z2mw5q8afav072aljp7nfrtl9km2ymufpa3qk0xhf4rq0hvp0nmsedz0cq

nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624 informed me about NIP-96, a spec for hosting media files and nostr:npub1ust7u0v3qffejwhqee45r49zgcyewrcn99vdwkednd356c9resyqtnn3mj 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:
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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 nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5, nostr:npub1cdak4q4f3h3k3sgyh0rd5dj4w8k95f3mquzh6z3ew76vqkh60e3slyczgz, and nostr:npub1ust7u0v3qffejwhqee45r49zgcyewrcn99vdwkednd356c9resyqtnn3mj 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.


I was looking at your smoothtable thing, did you ever get that working? It’s something I still want to look into, but the code looks so janky (not yours specifically, but just to get it working)


I love Nostur .. thank you 🙏 🫂


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.


thank YOU ser! nostr:npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0 is a joy to use and it continues to get better, have a safe & great new year!


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 nostr:npub1cudap5kkjdvnv78v08m3748afshj0u3zh9h34svrf4nhn07gn4lscflujc, nostr:npub1hxfkcs9gvtm49702rmwn2aeuvhkd2w6f0svm4sl84g8glhzx5u9srk5p6t, 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! 🔥


Also new respect for nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk. I get sweaty palms posting long posts like this knowing there is no edit button, and they manage to do it every day!


A great recap 🔥 Thanks for this and all of your work on Nostur. I assume it's a great client 😂 #AndroidOnly
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I’m using Nostur more and more on my iOS device! Keep up the good work nostr:npub1n0sturny6w9zn2wwexju3m6asu7zh7jnv2jt2kx6tlmfhs7thq0qnflahe 👌🏻


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


From: nostr:npub15f0lnlxujj05a8cr7emhsz9cszcjalaq0su6rymvw22zuth0h9fs7cqrdx


Very awesome 👍😎
#BTC #Zap #Nostr #Bitcoin


I didn’t hear about nostur before. I really like your mission statement. It’s carved out of beautiful pragmatism.


Nostur for me is the best client in IOS, nostr:npub1n0sturny6w9zn2wwexju3m6asu7zh7jnv2jt2kx6tlmfhs7thq0qnflahe besides being a great person is also an excellent developer.

We need more people like Fabian and less ego on #nostr

Happy new year!! 🥳🥳


🔥 Keep going! I’m Nostur only 😂💪


Straight fire! Keep it up! 🔥