Dropped a few small improvements to Nostr.how just now.
- Better light mode styles. In some cases you couldn’t see text you should have been able to.
- Fixed instructions and screenshot for Alby Nostr settings.
- Hide the mobile menu on link click.
Thanks to everyone who continues to support. 🫂🤙⚡️
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Keep up the awesome work 👍
Hi Jeff thanks for your work. As a simpleton novice, I was/am very step-by-step and was thrown by step 4 on Get Started With Iris as there was no "nostr" option on the secondary menu (as shown on the how-to) in _my_ Iris set up. Turns out to be a nothingburger in the overall process once one sees what one is trying to do, but this "nostr" menu option instruction is still present on Step 4 and may be a source of confusion for other non-savvy newbies. A friend suggested wording such as "retrieving the public and private keys which 'may be' found in the nostr option"--or elsewhere if there is no nostr option presented, as in my case. Dunno, maybe not really worth the effort.
Aside: this may be a good time for me to figure out screenshots in here since the one I took of the current Getting Started page to demo my point aint pasting!
Thanks Matilda! Appreciate the feedback. I’ve just read through the steps and I’m not sure I fully understand. Is it the step of getting a newly created private key from iris and taking it to Alby or something else?
I’d love to clarify it if I can.
Dang it , I went to look at Settings and it lost my whole reply draft??
So, again....
On
(with a handy dandy picture under step 4):
4. However, we’re going to make sure we’re using the app in the safest way possible. Head to “Settings” on the left and then click “Nostr” in the secondary menu.
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5. Copy your public key and your “nsec” private key. These should be stored somewhere VERY safe. Like a password manager (we like 1Password).
When I was setting up yesterday there was no "nostr" option listed in the secondary menu under Settings as described in the step by step instructions....and when I looked just now there still isnt...and this threw me. Upon the realization that I was simply looking for the two keys--both found at that time under "Account" at the top of the secondary menu list--the absence of the nostr option as shown in the step by step guide is no big deal...but I kind of had a nostr advocate to reassure me that the keys were really all I wanted to find in that step and I wonder if the confusion might turn other dummies like me off on that step. While looking under Settings just now (and thus losing my prior draft reply) I notice that only the public key is present as opposed to yesterday while setting up, which I suppose is why saving the private key is so important.
Did that hep?

Get started with Iris
A step-by-step guide to getting started with Nostr with the Iris web client.
Massively helpful. 🙏🙏 thank you for taking the time. I’ll update that today.
You should also get your lightning wallet setup in your Nostr profile so I can zap you! ⚡️