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 Nice website you have here! 
 Everyone can have their own Instagram 

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 Typing arbitrary hashtags coming tomorrow.

Homepage art is awesome! But I see no posts, have you not posted anything there yet? 
 You're right, something's wrong there. It seems like the site can't find your outbox relays and thus doesn't fetch the posts. I will get back to you when I fix this. Sorry! 
 Not complete, we're barely scratching the surface! 
 Yeah, we have nostrsites.org domain, hope to build an educational site there one day. 

Building sites backed by nostr might take the web to the next level. Social networks became the primary tool for "homepages for ordinary people" because nostr didn't exist. Now with nostr publishing on the web will be taken to the next level of ease and usability, this is very exciting! 

So you're proposing a kind of a website builder where you compose a page from blocks which might contain nostr events? That sounds totally possible! Thanks for the idea! Need to think through how this could be built on top of a theme that the site is using. 
 Oh wow this theme is awesome for you! 
 Wow awesome stickers!

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 Nostr is not only a social network, we have many "other stuff" to explore

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 Repeating today but yes we are barely scratching the surface  
 The proposed NIP is https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1348
There is an event describing your site and which kinds/tags to include, there are theme events, etc. And then the website engine pulls your notes matching the filters. 
 nostr:npub1xdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30wscmntxy npub.pro is awesome, but cu... 
 I agree, we need more nostr there, at least optionally. There will be html meta tags with npub/noteid/naddr and full event in schema.org json somehow. I think "Open with" buttons under posts/authors would be nice too. And the "what is nostr" explainer sounds nice! 
 Yes, exactly! 
 @dtonon njump didn't work when purplepag.es was failing to connect, there need to be timeouts etc I guess 
 It wasn't connecting, just hanging iirc 
 We have fixed several issues with npub.pro app and websites it generates. If you had any issues r... 
 Oh sorry sir, I don't. Could you please give us some time, the fallback code isn't there yet. 
 Please try again now. Seems like one of outbox relays we're using (purplepag.es) takes forever to connect to, which blocked the login feature. Added timeouts there, should work fine now. Thanks for the report and patience! 
 Please try, and if something doesn't work we will fix it and make it work  
 Should look pretty good
https://i.nostr.build/Kng0S2MxazXESeLT.png

Do they look worse for you? 
 It is! Maybe adjust site title/description - both are "Random Thoughts" now, would look better in link previews. 
 #foodstr

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 What should we improve to make it work better for you? 
 Thanks for all the feedback, noted! 
 Looks nice indeed! 
 Web had to be built to make nostr possible so that we could rebuild the web on top of it. 
 Exactly  
 Choose Posts, not Notes.

And YES! 
 How are comments broken, can you please elaborate? Thanks! 
 I agree with everything you say, and I don't think nostr should aim to be a network independent of the web standards. But I also think web might benefit in many ways if we inject nostr somewhere between http transport and html presentation layer (like we do with npub.pro sites, and like all web nostr apps do), which is what I meant when I said "rebuild the web on top of nostr". Should I have said "rebuild the web WITH nostr"?
 
 Thanks! Is there anything significant we should explore/prioritize, in your opinion?  
 Thanks, need to think about that! 
 Sounds interesting, please let me know! 
 Exactly! 
 What is the easiest way to serve duck.npub.pro under my domain but still allow me to serve my NIP... 
 If you're using github pages then try this: https://blog.npub.pro/post/how-to-self-host-on-github

You could host it in a sub-directory of your existing site.

It won't be server-side rendered but it should work, example: https://brugeman.github.io/nostr-site-demo/ 
 Hi, you're right, search isn't working yet - many Ghost themes have the search button but it's not implemented yet in our engine. It's coming soon. 
 It's not about search backend - this app is powered by nostr.band relay which we built. The npub.pro sites have all the data cached locally, they don't even need a relay, we just need a nice UI for searching. Work on search started today. 
 Good idea?
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 Sorry they'll have to wait a bit more before I get closer to inbox zero 😉  
 That's too much to ask from me :))) 
 Opensats should give 3 bounties a month for the best nostr home pages.    

Gold: 10 million sats... 
 Good idea?
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 Which features should we prioritize? 
 You can edit those posts to add some tag, and then add navigation item leading to that tag (/tag/sometag) and give Articles label to that navigation item. Would that work! 
 Great to see you managed to self-host it!

I'd recommend you to review your relay selection - you have way too many relays, at least a dozen of which is old and offline, which means the clients you're using (and your nostr-site) are wasting time trying to connect and talk to those relays. A dozen of alive relays is more than enough, you have 50+. 
 Yes it might get slightly better if less dead relays are used 
 Since Npub.pro launched last week, more than 150 people created nostr-based websites!

Here are some awesome examples that stood out the most to me:

https://agichoote.npub.pro/

https://archjourney.npub.pro/

https://cider-str.npub.pro/

https://enrico.npub.pro/

https://heszap.npub.pro/

https://john-martinez.npub.pro/

https://jqw22.npub.pro/

https://moxie.npub.pro/

https://reiartur.npub.pro/

https://yeghro.npub.pro/

Amazing creators indeed are on Nostr! A beautiful website theme can really help your content stand out!

The announcement and a short video guide below:

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 We are going to have manual post selection in the future so you will be able to curate your existing posts.  
 Which app did you use to post replies that aren't visible? Your first comment has a link to the long-form post as 'root', but the rest of them don't, which is why they're not on the site. 
 Nostr.band could work, but maybe we'll have to build a custom note curation tool on npub.pro site management app. 
 Awesome! Thing to note - podcast themes work best when you use nostr.build or similar media server to upload directly to nostr. Posting links to youtube or spotify will not utilize the players built into themes. Example: https://cd-demo.npub.pro 
 Can you please send me a link where it says not loading? 
 This is a correct link https://blog.npub.pro/post/how-to-self-host-on-github

Can you tell where you got the wrong link, please? 
 Edge looks fine https://shadowstacker-brugeman.npub.pro/
I saw it had glitches with layout occasionally, but those usually happen when window size is changed 
 Oh thanks a lot, fixed! 
 No rush! Happy to answer any questions when you have them! 
 Many themes have RSS buttons, which don't work atm. I think it's totally possible for us to generate the rss feeds for these sites, adding that to the roadmap, thanks! 
 Could you please try "Log in with DM" option? Enter your npub (copy the npub1xxxxx string from your nostr app), then receive a code in nostr direct messages, enter the code back on the site. 
 Please go to https://npub.pro/admin and log in the same way you did when you created the site.  
 Strange! This one looks fine on Safari.
https://i.nostr.build/45KzI2GNiWq3AMaO.jpg 
 Custom theme, nice looking link previews, indexed by search engines, your own place under your full control with your nostr content. 
 Let's do it! 
 Thanks for the feedback!

Media-only is a great idea!

Media/feed toggle should probably be solved at the theme level, will think about that.

Pinned posts coming too. 
 We have updated the admin panel to make it a bit more attractive and usable, and fixed many bugs ... 
 Please try Log in with DM option - enter your npub, get a direct message with a code in Amethyst, enter the code back to the site. 
 You only have Login with DM option on npub.pro during website creation, it's not available anywhere else, not on websites that are created. 
 Just follow the guide but upload the files from zip archive to your host, let me know if you need more help. 
 Bug fix published: editing of kinds and hashtags in website admin panel is working fine now. Than... 
 You did everything right, there was a bug, apologies for the confusion  
 Thanks! 
 Hmm, I see different addresses
https://i.nostr.build/QRlaw43b4FLiHjmt.png 
 Awesome! 
 Please welcome Npub.pro!

This is a tool to make yourself a beautiful Nostr-based website.

It's been long in the making, and we're thrilled to launch it on this special day!

Here is a short demo of how you can make yourself a website right now:

https://v.nostr.build/kZG9O.mp4

It's free for anyone getting started, it's open source and self-hostable. 

Why get yourself a nostr-based website?

- beautiful themes (any Ghost theme could work)
- great looking shareable links to your content
- works like an app, add to homescreen, useable offline
- SEO-optimized
- attach your custom domain or host yourself

Try it at https://npub.pro

Learn more on our Nostr-based blog: https://blog.npub.pro/post/npub-pro-is-live

P.S. If you like how it looks, that's because @Karnage designed it. Thanks man, it's a pleasure to work with you!
 
 That zap button is almost there. 
 We'd love to help with custom themes, but just can't handle it at this point. Could you please just send a direct message to me with your ideas, or post here, and I will note them and try to figure things out eventually? Thanks! 
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 Thanks for the input! Could you please try changing the hashtags again now? There were issues that we fixed a couple days ago. 

Videos as embeds - noted!

Comments component indeed has UX issues and deep threads look bad on mobile, on our todo list too! 
 Dedicated homepage hashtag sounds awesome, noted! And to repeat, changing hashtags should work fine now. 
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 Thanks for the mention, anyone interested in trying the tool - don't hesitate to reach out and ask questions!