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 Primal iOS users, we need your input! 🫡 

Assuming you’ve already upgraded to the latest 1.2 build, what are your top requests for the next release? Which new features would you like to see in Primal? What are the most annoying bugs that still need to get fixed?  
 Could I put in a request for Android version? Id really like a live feed. Thanks a lot.  
 I use Primal in Android and my requests are:

1- Mention with autocomplete
2- Push notification
3- Fix this problem: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app/issues/17#issuecomment-1910218479 
 Sometimes DMs don’t load and need refresh on web version. Bookmarking notes would be awesome! 
 I don't know how crazy or difficult to achieve what I'm going to say is, but here I go: Public lists of users with the possibility of free or paid subscription, for moderation and/or feeds. That is, I make a list of silenced users (bots) and whoever wants can subscribe if they trust my criteria, something similar with feeds (or user lists) 
 The autocomplete is incredibly unusable. It deters me from using the application.

Feature I would like to see is the ability to follow specific hashtags and see it in my feed. 
 Camera does not work in wallet for scanning 
 What device model are you using? 
 I answer you privately 
 thanks, it will be fixed in the next build  
 Can you just check if the profile QR code scanner in the side menu is working? 
 This menu prompts me to select an image from my library 
 I would like to see more functionality with the relays. For example an option to push my note to one of the relays from my list or to all of them. Also, the relay information when you click on it (uptime, paid or not etc).
Under the posts to see who zapped/liked it. 
 Probably it also would make sense to focus on the DM UX. 
 The website portion has never showed on my end. Even though I have added to my profile. 
 I for one would like Jack Dorsey to… 
 A veces hago una publicación y me sale que dió error pero en realidad se posteó. Quizás sea mi conexión pero solo eso me sucedió  
 Url linkeable on the profiles ? 
 Still NIP-42 AUTH 
 I just want to bump this again because it’s the 3rd or 4th time I’ve suggested this/asked if this is a planned Primal feature. I’ve never gotten any type of response.

I believe NIP-42 is implemented on almost every “major” nostr app at this point except Primal. DMs for paying nostr.wine users aren’t available on Primal as a result. Filter.nostr.wine will soon require AUTH and we will have to encourage our users to use something other than Primal. 
 custom primal lightning addresses
 
 I can’t zap outside the ecosystem, alby address, other non primal addresses, and now I don’t get zaps from “outsiders”. 
 👆this. 
 You should be able to send and receive payments/zaps anywhere on the lightning network. If you are not able to do so, please let us know the details (you can DM me) and we'll investigate.  
 This pops up, it would be good to see what’s the exact error, in the future.
https://m.primal.net/HfLh.png 
 nostr:nevent1qqsfczcl7z3lwqltm0sl2mkj5xqsuusmqtex0hc5kxzspurlyfj8ywgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuetcd96zuur4vgpzplewgy33nuqh3p585c77xfyv9606c0e2690r6cs79dpzwh9vh8kdqvzqqqqqqytv7h8x 
 nostr:nevent1qqsdxelmzvrenvcf9mprtxcvw7pga8yujmsrt2c6clxcmn66pgadfucpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuetcd96zuur4vgpzpmd5wqn399avtfslyalne52du4xx066ue5sw7rva72d7rp59hvqyqvzqqqqqqyqcald8 
 Inputting text is a pain in the ass as autocorrects always to some weird combinations of text that’s more even English. Only happens on primal 
 Upload gifs and save videos others post 
 Streaming integration 📺

https://zap.stream 
 From an accessibility standpoint, allowing larger fonts (ie. using fonts from system settings), or allowing landscape mode would be huge improvements. 
 Add in nostr nests and/or zap.stream 
 Auto translate!! 
 I wouldn’t know because I cannot even open or login to Primal 
 Fix the dms! 
 I want to see Primal Capital (which will also increase adoption like you’ve never seen due to  self interests and motivating/enticing millions to move on over here)

Please reach out if you want to get ahead of the game and figure out WTF I am talking about. 
 Free online translation 
 Bookmarks? 
 Bookmarking 
 My custom zaps reset when I updated 
 Recommended follows: ppl that are followed by my follows that i’m not following yet. 
 I don’t seem to be able to zap from #Primal to #Damus accounts. 
 App is a million times better now.

Pressing "bugs":

- Copy & Paste fixes
- notifications UI
- post button on all views
- don't lose my drafts
- 3 dots menu on posts on all views
- custom text selection of notes in all views  
 Thank you for all of your effort. I like the app a lot. Here my most wanted emprovements: 1) The camera in the wallet doesn't work properly (black display, freezed). 2) it would be great if I could use the wallet for lightning payments outside of nostr. 3) a custom lightning address for recieving payments. 
 The possibility to copy lnurls and invoices in notes to easily paste them elsewhere 
 Add ability to bookmark posts! 👍 
 split zaps 
 What happened to dark mode on Safari iOS? 
 We changed the default to light mode, but you can still override it in the settings.  
 inserting a period when double tapping the space bar 
 Never mind. I didn’t update. 
 Hide the ZAP ⚡️ icon if no wallet is set up on the receiving NPUB 🤔. It’s horrible UX if you try to shill Nostr to a friend and zaps don’t work because no wallet is installed at the receiving end 😥 
 Most annoying? Asking for FN, LN, DOB, Country of Residence for activating the wallet. 
 Something that enables quick switch between notes, and notes with replied. 

Going all the way to the top right corner to switch is not fast enough. 
 I would Tenor GIfS to actually work…be able to paste them into my notes properly.  Memes are important too.  #Ineedfun Thanks! 
 Bookmarks 🔖 
 We ned to be able to change the Tex if we have to. 
 My favorite Noster client! Great job. One small thing that annoued me: I feel like there are now too many animations in the lightning wallet. Just like with a PowerPoint presentation/website I feel like it'd be more effective to have less animations. Makes the user experience better, less distractive and cleaner. 
 Senin benim yazdıklarımı anlayacağın gibi benimde seni rahat bir şekilde anlamamı sağla. Bak o zaman nasıl patlama yapar. Bön bön bakıyor çeviri yapınca da sikimsonik bir çeviri ortaya çıkıyor. El atın 
 Ha birde attığımız dm’leri silebilelim aq hanım görse götümüze odun sokar çıtımız çıkmaz. Çok önemli bu konu çok 
 Larger fonts 
 Already there. Go to settings -> appearance 
 The range is limited to 4 steps and the largest is not large enough. Also it  does not change the size of the compose text.  Ideally the app would respond to iOS accessibility settings. 
 Auto translation for notes 
 push notifications for selected users 
 I requested something like this, to stalk people: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app/issues/60 
 For example, I would like to follow this thread (receive push notifications each time someone post here) to know the features people are requesting. If we had this "stalk" feature, this would be possible. 
 One zap for every like 
 Like it 
 First input: it’s already great 😊 
Latest build fixed the annoying keyboard bug. 
One thing I noticed when updating is that my custom zap amounts got overridden and I needed to change them again. I think there was a minor update of primal today or yesterday and this one kept my custom amounts. 
Features:
1. Bookmarks
2. Gifs (uploading a gif makes it a static image).
3. Being able to see list of people that zapped, liked a post. 
4. Custom notifications would be nice. Selecting some events that can notify you on the iOS level.
5. Zap stream integration! Would be great to watch zap stream from inside Primal on iOS. Being able to comment/zap and if possible play the video/audio on pip/background. 
6. Maybe a macOS desktop client? 🤔🫡
All in all, it’s an excellent client and the evolution has been quick and it has been very exciting following it. 
Congratulations and keep up the great work!
👏⚡️🫡 
 Great suggestions!🦋 
 I'm trying to post from Android after adding a picture but the post button doesn't work (after uploading has completed) 
 Maybe go to your Network Settings screen and see if your relays are configured & connected.  
 I went into the settings, most of the relays went green, but when I try posting an image with text, the post button remains darkened out 
 Wow! That escalated quickly. 😅

Thank you for the incredible feedback everyone. I won’t be able to reply to everyone, but rest assured, we are closely examining all your input. Nostr users care. 💜 

nostr:note1x4amnee5egxs7ryd3c82v89a3gs8f6azeag8kmpyu7ppqkf6kjmsmwefrt  
 In safari on macOS the web consumes a lot of memory and reloads frequently. 
 Agreed, this needs to get fixed.  
 I haven't seen a nostr client that auto shows threads without having to click into them. Hopefully that makes sense. 
 Option for different emoji reactions? Like a long press on the heart brings up a set of pre selected emoji you would like to use. Otherwise it’s a great update. The input bug fix is working great! 
 Cross-bridging with @fountain_app to easily share clips as notes on #nostr 
 Allowing third-party ⚡wallets and the ability to choose a custom primal ln address. I've clicked through every menu. Maybe im doing something wrong.

Also have a weird keyboard bug that doesn't allow auto-correct and double space for periods. Got any testflight links? 
 "Follow all follows" option on every profile. 
 Bookmarks 
 don’t know if it’s been addressed but I still notice renotes of accounts I have muted.

would love ws support for private relay logging.

automatic inclusion of followed hashtags would be cool for the “latest” feed.

and maybe what about slightly larger profile circles, my brain is too lazy to recognize names as quickly.

appreciate the app so far btw, great work 🤙 
 Bugs and translate  
 Bookmarks,
Some  way to filter or filter out longer posts (“articles”?) and have a medium- like experience 
 🫡  
 My Primal still jumps up once in a while. 

As in I am scrolling through the feed, and then suddenly it goes back up near the top... 
 I came here to report some keyboard quirks/bugs but as I type this they all seem to be fixed. So thanks!! 
 -Transact and generate digital receipts for record keeping purposes
-Customizable Payment Limits
-UX is already,navigation easy. Very User friendly  
 Is there a way to see who zapped a note? If not, then I want that feature. 
 I think this is already implemented. 
 I zapped this note. How can I tell who zapped it? I everything I try doesn’t work. 
 Or you mean see all people who zapped a specific note? 
 Yes, this 
 Ah ok, looks like not possible. 
 Not atm, but on our to-do list.  
 Bookmarks would be great 
 Something that would be amazing too is: be able to see who of the people I'm following is participating in a nostrnests.com room. Maybe push notification when someone that I'm following join a room. 
 The ability to see who has liked, zapped, renoted a note 
 I think Primal should have two modes to join:

1- Self sovereign way: The user receive the nsec and npub and have privacy. 

2- With email and password: The user doesn't have access of nsec. Have all disadvantages of a centralized service.

Obs. I think would be more easier to people that doesn't care yet about decentralization, to join nostr. 
 I can see that npub and nsec might not be necessary for users who don't want to deal with it, but they should still be generated so that the account is secure from people who try to clone the account on other devices with the username/password. 
 Getting people used to the idea of a public and private key is a big step towards getting them more comfortable with Bitcoin and sats.  I don't think we should ignore the lesson and make things too easy. 
 If we want mass adoption, we need to give people options that they are comfortable. 
 I agree.  But after installing Primal on my phone, getting the public and private key to be able to log into the same account in my browser was super easy, just copy/paste into a secure location, copy paste into the browser login, and I was off and running. I think it would have been almost as easy if I wasn't already familiar with public/private keys, it would have just taken a few more minutes of research and a brave step into the unknown to expand my comfort zone.  Which is what I did way back in 2017 when I started down this path. Eventually, adoption will come as more people get comfortable with how it works, I really don't think we need to massively adjust how it works if it introduces holes in security. 
 Believe me, many old people and youngs too doesn't care about these things, they just want to use something in the same way they always did. But I agree that with centralized mode with email and password, the user should have access to nsec to be able to login in other apps to, if they want. 
 *too 
 Option to mute notes with specific words. 
 I would like to be able to mute in public or private way. For now I don't know if the mute is public. Is it? 
 Persist default zap amount. For some reason, it occasionally deletes what I set. 
 private group chats 
 Can you add a way for users to make bookmarks or a Note-to-Self function in DMs? 
 Zooming in on opened images is glitchy for me. 
Ability to open and view other's profile images.  
 Seconded 
 ability to save a note or link in primal 
 I hope for the addition of the following two features:

1. Custom feed groups
2. Translation 
 Ability to click links on profile bios or at least copy them 
 Display replies in chronological order.   Why are they displayed in reverse chronological order? Seems like a weird default sort. 
 Pictures are cropped and with meme pics a lot of time the text gets cropped out so I have to click on the pic to see the full uncropped version. 
 Profile backups including following! 
 Universal feed, and yay for bookmarks 
 In my opinion, Primal should not add any new feature before fixing the bugs users already reported. So my suggestion is fix the bugs first, then implement new features. Thanks. 
 NWC 
 please let us zap using our own wallet like we used to in the testflight 
 Why do you want to do that? 🤔 
 Freedom tech is hope 🤙💜 
 Freedom tech is 💜💫 
 Would like to send sats to lightning addresses, not only nostr users. 
 You are able to scan/type/paste any lightning address via Primal Wallet. To type/paste, select the keyboard tab on the Send screen.  
 Now that I have actually updated the app I have nothing to add 🙄 Thanks! 😁 
 Polls  
 NWC definitely!  
 Nostr Wallet Connect 
 I’d like to be able to easily manage more than one profile being able to switch between them would be good 
 Today I tried to show a colleague at work how useful Nostr is so I opened Primal and searched for the totally innocent word “#nature”. 

The first three posts with pictures were from AI generated naked girls. 

I wish we could filter out (as in, not who) posts with 

1. Pictures or videos at all
2. Negative filter, as in, i want to view #photography but I don’t want to see #NSFW 

I know the #hashtags are user generated and could be unreliable, but still this filter option is better then nothing 🤔 
 I really like Primal. 💜 
I would like to have the note schedule. 👍  
 Manage multiple accounts 
 @miljan I want to be able to login and switch between two accounts on Nostr using my primal iOS app  - my personal Nostr account and a community initiative 🍊💊 Nostr account. Once you get that sorted for me, I have no further complaints Sir. 😆🫡🤝🍊💊 
 Working on it! 🫡 
 💪🏾🤝🫡 
 More automated tests! (I can help!) 
 I would like to see the "Trending 1/4/12HR" available on iOS client. I use those all the time on the web client. 
 Absolutely loving #Primal; but posting is scary - can you implement a ‘save draft’ feature for notes so that I don’t have to rewrite them after agonising over whether to post one or not? 
 - Custom content filtering algorithms (open sourced + plug and play)
- Similar plug and play note ranking algorithms for feed to toggle off chronological + allow discovery

These are things I am already thinking about developing myself, but a standard for allowing a user to select their own feed/moderation algo's needs to be decided upon 
 iPad support for the iOS app 
 TikTok grew a lot by putting new users high up in the global feed. To grow Nostr:

1. Get a global feed
2. Make sure new users (even if their posts where not really the latest) show up relatively high in the Global feed. 

🤔 
 Custom reactions (ie. emoji reactions), and the ability to view reactions to a note. 
 One unique selling point of primal could become the option to block pictures and videos that are not “child safe” or NSFW. How can you recognize such content? Most smartphones today have great ML features. A simple model could be trained to filter all incoming posts 🤔 
 The exchange rate in the wallet is off by a significant percentage when converting between sats and USD 
 Please the option that the feed does not auto scroll on top when new posts are available so you can read them from where you were last time you used the app! 🙏 
 i would like to be able to select text from a note and use ios translate possibilities 
 Nuzzel.com was an app and a service and was bought by @jack or at least by Twitter and stopped working soon afterwards. 

God I loved Nuzzel. It would give me a short list of all the stuff that the people I follow where liking and/or resharing. 

It was like the highlights of that day, in one handy list. 

Could somebody please build a similar thing but in Nostr 😅 🙏 
 A drafts feature would be 👌 
 Not a bug but I find it redundant to have to repeatedly swipe backwards to get out of a note that is nested in replies.  
 Just to confirm: autocomplete feature is not implemented in Primal Android, right? 
 I was mocked for the basil icon by one who shall remain unnamed. @ODELL 
 @miljan the #basil team is NOT happy about the 420 emoji not being 🌿 
 Basil is for pizza not for zaps. If you want flora, use deez enuts 
 I’m confused. But the app looks slick.