I’ve been playing around with nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft ⁤⁣ ‘s new client “Olas” and decided to take a queue from @⁣ nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx ⁤⁣ and contribute as a non-dev by giving some feedback.

I have many artist friends who are tied to instagram (but interested in #nostr ) and i’m sure this kind of client can be a good incentive for them to try it out 🤙✨.

Here goes the feedback by sections:

HOME SCREEN
- In the home feed we see both people we follow and people we don’t follow, but there is no way for us to curate our feed to choose if we only want to see our follows and not have other stuff cluttering your feed. It could be useful to be able to choose between your follows vs a kind of web-of-trust (follows of my follows) vs “global feed” with “no filtering” (which is what it currently feels like).

- The filtering of good quality and low quality sounds interesting, but not knowing who from our follows uses which, we’re inclined to leave it at low quality to make sure we don’t leave people we follow out of the feed (which did happen on the high quality filter)

- Also, when people are sharing photos or art, they use hashtags since it’s the best discoverability resource we have for the moment on nostr, but hashtags serve no functionality on olas. Could be something that would be useful to follow so you can also fill your feed according to the hashtags you’re interested in.

- Bookmarking isn’t implemented (as it informs)

IMAGE LOADING SECTION:
-Tried uploading a video and it made the app crash.

- Posted a picture but it doesn’t appear on other clients 😅.

VIDEO FEED

- Some videos work, but for other we simply get a logo (kinda like the quicktime logo) and it remains that way.

- Clicking on the person’s name takes us to the profile, but there are not the pics that they post and there follower count is trapped in 1.5k for everyone and their followings at 890.

OUR OWN PROFILE:

The follower count trap also happens in our own profile.
Also, When going to our own profile, our photos and videos don’t appear. In the case of our nostr:npub13et0mc3kanted8mfkqulh7t8ckqgmzt6ngkl79dlq5tvrw6r8vcsvfq4va ⁤⁣  friends, the only photos they see in their own profile pics is the “portada” from the yakihonne videos they’s put up.

Also saw that the wallet section is only for mints and there is no option for nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm  or other lightning addresses, which could be useful since ecash is still new to many in the nostr community.

GENERALLY

The only thing i missed from day one of trying Olas was the ability to search for people, specially since we didn’t know why some people where on our feed, and wanted to find directly some of the people we wanted to check out at that moment.

In any case, hope this feedback is useful. I have a lot a respect for the work Pablo is doing and only wish to relay some thoughts that can help with the user experience as an insta user that doesn’t want to use insta anymore 😅

CHEERS, and thank you for the great work.💜