Karnage and 248 others on Nostr: I can only speak for myself. Basically we had terrible DMs implementation initially ...

I can only speak for myself. Basically we had terrible DMs implementation initially and someone improved it but some (I don’t know the full list) clients got lazy and didn’t upgrade for whatever reasons (maybe they didn’t like that solution, or think DMs don’t belong in short note clients - who knows) but what we have now is DMs that are always there and you can’t remove from UI that sort of work on some clients and still running the old version on others. So you get a lot of missed DMs unless you open a dedicated dm client - which I suppose you could if you cared enough). But people end up thinking you’re ignoring them because you didn’t respond to your so called friends but little do they know you didn’t see their DMs. So the burden then falls on you to check some other app regularly just to see if you might have an off chance dm. Or you could enable notifications which is a no go for a no-notifications maxi like me (I have zero notifications for anything, zero exceptions). So the next best thing imo is to just nuke DMs if you’re not going to support the latest version that many other clients are supporting but it’s not happening. Then some devs tell you to go use another client then but the other client looks like potatoes and works 100% 50% of the time and they’re like “but it works for me” - true story.

In the end you are left with a choice - pick the feature that matter to you and use some other dedicated client to do the thing it’s supposed to do well. I personally use many clients for different things just not DMs. I’d be happy with DMs being gone entirely and relegated to dedicated clients so I never have to see them 🤣