GM. The new contact page is live on #Alexandria: https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/contact This is our first attempt at an input textbox, so go ahead and beta-test it for us. You can use our test file, as a starting point for your experiments. If you have questions about the parser or find some use case we forgot to cover, just put it in your test issue. The testfile: 📃.md Instructions concerning how the markup parser: 📃.md View quoted note →

Good evening, fellow Nostriches. We at #GitCitadel are proud to announce that #Alexandria has basically stayed the same, despite our making major changes under the hood. 🎉 You might notice a slight difference, when loading large publications. It now loads as you scroll down the page, rather than loading all at once. This means that you can load really large and deep publications without your browser freezing up. This was a major change in the architecture, by our Product Owner and lead Alex developer, @MichaelJ, and was a prerequisite to a number of other changes. Development should move more quickly, now. Thank you for your patience. https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/about

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GM Nostriches, We at #GitCitadel are almost a quarter of the way toward our *git server goal*. A hearty thank-you, to everyone who donated. We have now, correspondingly, lowered the monthly relay rate from 5000 sats to 3750 sats. View quoted note →

Hello, fellow Nostriches. We at #GitCitadel have spent this week pricing out remote servers and brainstorming; considering the most cost-effective, but still performant, way to implement a public #gitserver based upon Nostr. In order to help us front the rental fees and lower the price to individual npubs, we have begun a new

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goal. The resulting server will have multiple #gnostr implementations and tools on it. We are planning to begin with: * the #GitRepublic API, that will make it possible to log in to git with your Nostr signer, and will trade out e-mail communication with Nostr notes, * an HTTP-based git server (the first thing that will be going online, so that everyone can move or mirror their repos), * a paid AUTH relay https://gitcitadel.nostr1.com (currently 5000 sats/month, to cover all the running costs, but we hope to bring that down dramatically, due to your donations), * an #Alexandria instance focused on technical documentation and styled for the dev users, * and an instance of

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that displays the repos on the server. It's difficult to compete with a "free" public service, like GitHub or Codeberg, but we're hoping that tighter integration with Nostr will add some value to the developers using it, and for the public interested in browsing the PoW stored on it. Through the integration of Nostr and Lightning, we are leaning into the comfortable, Nostrized, friction-free logins, and will facilitate V4V payments for Nostr's hard-working devs. Many thanks in advance. And may you have a good morning.

Hello. We have a new feature implemented, in #Alexandria, which might interest some of you. We have revamped and expanded the index card menu. You now have the ability to display publication details (index metadata) on the cards, including book summaries, ISBNs, and links to the npub profile pages of the publishing npub and the author. (If the author has a npub and is referenced in the 'p' tag, as with @Gigi's book, below.) This allows for publisher and author to share in the credit and the zaps, and to both be notified of interactions with the index. You also have the ability to open an original URL-source of the publication (usually to a web page, PDF, LaTeX file etc.), even if the publication is also available in event form. Currently, it opens outside the app. This opens up Alexandria to being a true library catalog of all publications, even those under copyright or where there is no digital version readily available. They can be referenced and interacted with, through the index cards, in a manner similar to GoodReads or other "book review" sites. This will become more apparent, once we add things like kind 1111 comments, to the index events. For now, we're still revamping the parser and the table of contents, but they should be replaced #thoon. Thank you for your patience and support, while we rebuild, and may you have a good evening. Happy reading! https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/

Our team is hard at work on the latest round of user stories for project #alexandria. What is a user story? We're glad you asked! @MichaelJ explains in our first dev blog, which you can read on Alexandria! https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/publication?d=the-life-of-a-gitcitadel-work-ticket-by-michael-j-v-1

If you are using #Alexandria and would like to submit an issue, please note that our GitHub account is only a mirror to our OneDev git-server, and we do not accept issues there. Issues are to be submitted to our #GitWorkshop instance, which uses NIP-34 "gitstuff". https://gitcitadel.com/r/naddr1qvzqqqrhnypzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqq5stvv4uxzmnywf5kz2elajr/issues We are also working on accepting patches over GitWorkshop.

Good evening, As a project that is run by Nostriches for Nostriches, we at #GitCitadel are proud of our humble, zap-based financing, especially over our Geyserfund (

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). It's been mildly painful, and we've had to learn to pinch each sat until it cries for mercy. But it has definitely been the right source of funding for a project in this incubation stage, where we tentatively brood and hatch out our first baby, Project #Alexandria. HOWEVER, we regularly receive questions about how we plan on having a more sustainable source of funding, and one of our main ideas, is to cover the costs of our relays with a relay subscription that @cloud fodder is managing for us. The current subscription of 300 sats/month (which some of you have been grandfathered into), will get you write-access to the relay. It is a great help for us, if you actively subscribe to wss://theforest.nostr1.com in your client, and include it in your outboxes and inboxes. This access will become interesting soon, once the publishing feature is opened up, and even more interesting, once we get comments, highlights etc. going. Alexandria is a community-first client, and theforest is our community relay for the https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu instance, so anything written to that relay will receive pride-of-place in the client. Because we know and trust our own community members, we're displaying "the full global", so this relay is a great way to immediately make contact with other npubs, even if you are new to Nostr. We are also working on the ability to offer premium relay subscriptions, and we'll announce those, once we get the features going that they will unlock. Yours truly, @GitCitadel