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 For the nostr:nprofile1qqsggm4l0xs23qfjwnkfwf6fqcs66s3lz637gaxhl4nwd2vtle8rnfqprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qfqwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx26tww4hxg7nhv9h856t89eehqctrv5hsz8rhwden5te0w35x2cmfw3skgetv9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsjmvd7t Alexandria knowledge base app, how would y'all like to see a home page organized?

Should it:

1. Show the most recent knowledge base articles on your relays.
2. Show the most recent knowledge base articles from people you follow.
3. Not show any articles, but just present a search bar. 
 I'd do follows, but maybe add a relay setting in a later version, for community relays. 
 Relay-based navigation is a great idea. 
 It would be nice to be able to choose "all of my relays" or a particular "one of my relays." 
 I think those are two good defaults. Think an extension to that would be pulling in through relay lists 
 I think he's pulling relays from profile. 
 Yep the initial relay list is coming from the user profile on sign-in. 
 maybe relay feed is more appropriate? Different from your default relays, something the user may have thematically grouped together. 
 I think that is related to what nostr:nprofile1qqsd6ejdteqpvse63ntf7qz6u9yqspp4z7ymt8094urzwm0x2ceaxxgprfmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakszxmhwden5te0w35x2cmfw3skgetv9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5dj64vx mentioned.  We can have a Discord- or Slack-style relay-based navigation.

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 Yes, but that's an additional feature, I think, tying Alexandria in as a library for a community. Like Biblestr. 
 And then we need AUTH  for that and whatever strfry magic nostr:nprofile1qqs8eseg5zxak2hal8umuaa7laxgxjyll9uhyxp86c522shn9gj8crspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq35amnwvaz7tmswfhkv6tvv4ejumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcylknqy is cooking up.

For now, we can use thecitadel.nostr1.com as the default we offer. No AUTH on that and it's only OtherStuff and non-spammy. 
 Yep, that was my thought!  Default feed is from TheCitadel, after login we add the user's relay list. 
 I still have to figure out how to do AUTH. 
 btw I was going to mention to y'all, somewhat stealth feature improvement I made to the non-auth relays is the ability to use negentropy sync with other relays.  I actually didnt mean to have this turned off but I found a bug last week that had been preventing it.

so for example, if you wanted to sync and/or stream events up/down with thecitadel to another strfry you have running somewhere, it's easy to do.  Soon I may release UI options for it.

for example, sync down to a local strfry for dev or to a public secondary relay.

negentropy is really neat 🦕🦖 
 Can you briefly explain negentropy?  I've heard it mentioned a few times, but I don't know what it means yet. 
 its an add-on to the protocol where two relays can very efficiently find notes they're missing and transfer only the notes they dont have. (for any given REQ) 
 OH this makes so much sense!  I've been thinking for a while relays need to do more to stay in sync for some applications of the protocol.  Negentropy sounds like exactly that. 
 I could see 1 and 2 being useful. Can you make it an option up to the user? 
 Yeah we can totally make it an option on the home page. 
 Like a toggle/radio-button or multiselect? 
 Yeah I was thinking a drop-down select. 
 Generally 2 would be my choice, but I would love to to be able to see people I follow, posts on my relays (or a particular relay), and by subject/tag depending on my interests at the time.