signal_and_rizz on Nostr: If you’re a new iOS user, check out Nostur before next year. 🤙 ...

If you’re a new iOS user, check out Nostur before next year. 🤙

quoting note1jd9…pmgk

The Nostur Report: 2023 in review
along with some of my favorite bookmarks and thank you’s.

On Jan 4th I clicked on this button and it would eventually become Nostur:


Few know it started because scrolling in Damus was buggy (back then):
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After some progress I made my announcement and first post on nostr: note1tcs…2hcy

I had been quietly posting updates into an empty void for some time until I got a repost from aglkm (npub1hw0…59hh)
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then Jack mentioned Nostur once, but then never again 🥲 note13yt…uye0
still grateful for indirectly supporting through OpenSats (npub10pe…n34f), thank you jack (npub1sg6…f63m)

Pablo said Nostur is fantastic and Nostur started to gain some traction
note1mke…f8zk

This was at the time when Nostur was still very buggy, so thanks for the encouragement PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft)

back then some of the UX was so bad that if you die on Nostur you die in real life: note1y37…euy4

We saw Apple ban zaps and I wrote a Nostur mission
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Nellie (npub1xla…grrk) was the first to discover some sly roundabout way for zaps and share it note1fq2…6mrf

People kept losing their follow list in other clients and The: Daniel⚡️ (npub1aeh…4nwx) kept informing them over and over that they can restore with Nostur: note198r…mmhn
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quentin (npub138s…x624) informed me about NIP-96, a spec for hosting media files and petri (npub1ust…n3mj) suggested to use WordPress for this. With some help from ChatGPT Nostr Media Uploads for WordPress was born:
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https://github.com/fabianfabian/nostr-media/releases/tag/0.7-beta

The spam problem got solved, with some caveats, which I wrote about in Nostr and the accidental Web of Trust:
note1sy8…slhj

And I haven’t posted about this one much yet but it exists: a Swift package to start building your own nostr client:
https://github.com/nostur-com/nostr-essentials

Finally special thanks to corndalorian (npub1lrn…qnw5), 🦖 (npub1cda…czgz), and petri (npub1ust…n3mj) for pushing Nostur to the limits, finding bugs, suggesting improvements and showing demos like: note1pmc…wlh2

I know I missed some, I have many bookmarks and I also lost a few migrating to a new system.

I’m not much of a marketeer so I rely on all of you to describe your experiences, thank you all!

BTW: if some of the embedded posts are not loading, consider adding an archival relay to your relay settings: wss://relay.nostr.band and wss://a.nos.lol should get you all the posts you need.