I've been using Amethyst for ages. Is this part of the onboarding process now? Are new users prompted to choose?
Look, I get it that with power comes responsibility, but if we're looking to onboard a good percentage or X or Brazil, for instance, the friction needs to be minimized.
If my less technical friends had to pick relays many would stop right there.
Do you think people can't choose one or two relays?
The onboarding is automated, but they MUST choose a relay to host their notes. Otherwise, we are not anything better than Twitter.
Right.
I think people are going to be wondering what relays are and what the implications of choosing a relay over another. Will this affect my experience here? Can I change later? What's the right choice? All of this is friction.
Either that for have a 'Randomly pick for me.' Button. From a UX perspective it's too much for many normies. I already hear it from people who have tried nostr and left.
Look, its just my 2 sats from a slightly more technical normie wanting to help.
They have to wonder. Most relays will be screwing them over. So, it's not an optional part. Let's hope people write more articles and analyze the policies and resilience of relays out there. As an app dev, I definitely cannot do that myself. It's too much.
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I get that and the UX tradeoffs must be difficult. Thanks for what you do sir.
This is a problem people have with Mastodon and the Fediverse, selecting an instance. It’s a major source of friction
That and the Fediverse sucks.
It’s an easy choice once you’ve had a few relays, but a difficult one for new users who just want something to just work. Apparently Nostr doesn’t just work. “Am I making a mistake if I choose this relay or another?” Turns out you could make a mistake! But also not a terrible one.
Not giving new users some random defaults for complicated settings and mechanics and not telling them they can just change them later is just bad UX.
Every single on-boarding step a user must make is a potential cliff.
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