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Although we often focus on the positive aspects of Nostr, it is important to also discuss its shortcomings and areas for improvement. This is not meant to criticize any developers, who have done an incredible job so far. However, as with any software project, there is always room for growth and improvement. What is something that you DO NOT LIKE about Nostr?

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LOVE Nostr but I don’t like the way my zaps don’t show accurately… not sure if this is a Nostr or Damus issue but sometimes all zaps show in order, sometimes none, sometimes only the first zap I received, sometimes random zaps from months ago. For me personally, zaps are the 2nd stickiest thing about Nostr … 2nd only to the quality of people and subsequent discourse. Often I only know I’ve been zapped by looking at my linked wallet. Because it is such a stickiness factor it would be great for any zaps you’ve received in between visits to hit you in the face as soon as you open your Nostr client. Also, is there a Nostr marketplace yet? No pressure, so grateful to all the developers. #Nostr and #Bitcoin give me hope for the future of my children, their children, their children’s children... 🙏💗🙏
LOVE Nostr but I don’t like the way my zaps don’t show accurately… not sure if this is a Nostr or Damus issue but sometimes all zaps show in order, sometimes none, sometimes only the first zap I received, sometimes random zaps from months ago. For me personally, zaps are the 2nd stickiest thing about Nostr … 2nd only to the quality of people and subsequent discourse. Often I only know I’ve been zapped by looking at my linked wallet. Because it is such a stickiness factor it would be great for any zaps you’ve received in between visits to hit you in the face as soon as you open your Nostr client. Also, is there a Nostr marketplace yet? No pressure, so grateful to all the developers. #Nostr and #Bitcoin give me hope for the future of my children, their children, their children’s children... 🙏💗🙏
LOVE Nostr but I don’t like the way my zaps don’t show accurately… not sure if this is a Nostr or Damus issue but sometimes all zaps show in order, sometimes none, sometimes only the first zap I received, sometimes random zaps from months ago. For me personally, zaps are the 2nd stickiest thing about Nostr … 2nd only to the quality of people and subsequent discourse. Often I only know I’ve been zapped by looking at my linked wallet. Because it is such a stickiness factor it would be great for any zaps you’ve received in between visits to hit you in the face as soon as you open your Nostr client. Also, is there a Nostr marketplace yet? No pressure, so grateful to all the developers. #Nostr and #Bitcoin give me hope for the future of my children, their children, their children’s children... 🙏💗🙏
Idk if its a problem of the client or the relays but this past days I had trouble with my followers list loading and with recent posts and replies loading. I use primarily Amethyst and used to use plebstr, stopped using it because of this. I seemed like it didn't connect to the relays.
1) I haven't seen a relay that wanted payment, laid out the benefits, and then let me pay with a zap. 2) Maybe petty but also getting to a reason why people donate, I'm not able to donate to an app and have that donor status show for other users of that app. 3) NIP-O4 (DMs) are not secure. NIP-44 seems an improvement but needs security review. 4) Overall, the chaos level is on the high side.
Integration into other apps, like normal websites (like, share etc.) for a better network effect. #Nostr needs a kind of Public API for share/like buttons across the hole web, similar to the public API of Facebook, Twitter with OAuth.
Of course. I believe Nostr is still a work in progress. There are so many features missing that need to be added, like I said Nostr is still progressing, so far the user interface has been really good, not too colorful but with this little color it's really cool. I will like to see this feature add to next version upgrade; ability to pin an important post to your timeline.
+ive critcism is not a troll nostr / nostriches / dev -> sometime need to be in LAYMAN style of presentation which severely lacking for bringing in new ordinary non-tech users to here yet - this aspect all pro-nostriches need to understand clearly spread the word simpler way this is single most factor why many non-tech users not yet leaving X or similar microblogging platform yet nostr is almost 3yrs old and public version is about 1yr - great tech dev achievement were been made - but the narrative n easy of use not quite well propagated yet to ordinary netizens
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The problem with privacy, a relay knows a lot of things about the pubkeys that write in them. The problem with scalability, there is no incentive to maintain a relay. The problem with media providers, as I said the other day, we must agree on a NIP to solve the lack of freedom of users to choose their favorite provider (or be one themselves).
↩ replying to Derek Ross
* Alternative solutions to paid relays should be produced so that everyone can see what people write, spam solutions should be produced. I am a poor person and I cannot pay for every relay. * We need clients that are compatible with each other. I can't have the same experience on mobile and browser * Decentralized approaches should also be produced for the files we share * Posts should be distributed to all relays and should be easy to delete. * And most importantly PLEASE talk about something other than Nostr or Bitcoin to encourage the Nostr community. Every time I look at Damus, 3 out of 5 posts are either BTC or Nostr related.
Cluttering feed and my messages of a week are fust gone. Without any trace. I want a local data backup for your own texts plus settings and relay things. Plus adjustments for user defined filters like search and follow hashtag requests. oh and splitted feeds are needed.
I would love to see photo albums implemented. Facebook is horribly authoritarian, and I'd prefer not to use at all, but they offer an excellent photo albums (documenting vacations & events, etc) service / addition to your digital journal.