The site should load much snappier now due to an improvement on how image assets are being loaded. Let us know if you come across any issues.
Nosta
_@nosta.me
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Simple & sassy Nostr profiles.
The website should be a bit snappier now and manage relays slightly more intelligently (which still is not very intelligent, but progress is progress).
Nosta profiles now show Pinstr boards (http://pinstr.app).
Example profile:
Boards are only rendered from the nos.lol relay, because that's the only one Pinstr currently checks, and Nosta links out to the site for board details. No dead links this way. That will be updated when Pinstr updates relay handling (already discussed it).
Nosta now renders about 20 different kinds. People can be active in so many different ways, so hopefully everyone can have a unique and personal profile that reflects their interests.
Example profile:
Nosta
Nostr profiles. Nice and easy.
Nosta now renders calendars and events.
Not many profiles use this feature yet. Here's an example:
As with other content, Nosta is just showing the info. Interacting with calendar and events, scheduling your own, etc, is left up to dedicated third-party clients (micro apps). These events link out to Flockstr at the moment, but hopefully there will be more adoption of recommended handlers, and then users are linked out to the service of their choice.
Not many profiles use this feature yet. Here's an example:
Nosta
Nostr profiles. Nice and easy.
Profiles now show your latest 2 posts (short-form notes), and your latest article (long-form note). Lots of people don't do anything else on Nostr, so they look pretty empty without these notes. So this addition should make it easier to learn about people and what they care about.
An example:
An example:
Nosta
Nostr profiles. Nice and easy.
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Nosta
Nostr profiles. Nice and easy.
Not sure what to do on Nostr? When you're logged in, your Nosta profile now shows a small box at the bottom that looks like this:
Click it, and you see something like this:
The tips are of course based on what events the site found for your profile (or more accurately, what it didn't find). You can click each tip to get redirected to nostrapp.link to a list of apps that support this specific activity.
This should help especially new users to find stuff to do. It's not perfect though. Apart from some usual testing and tweaking that is always needed on a new feature, not enough apps are listed on nostrapp.link.
If you are an app developer, please post the required NIP-89 events to make your service discoverable. And make sure the description is really clear for newcomers.
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Click it, and you see something like this:
The tips are of course based on what events the site found for your profile (or more accurately, what it didn't find). You can click each tip to get redirected to nostrapp.link to a list of apps that support this specific activity.
This should help especially new users to find stuff to do. It's not perfect though. Apart from some usual testing and tweaking that is always needed on a new feature, not enough apps are listed on nostrapp.link.
If you are an app developer, please post the required NIP-89 events to make your service discoverable. And make sure the description is really clear for newcomers.
kthxbye
A small update to the follow recommendations during profile creation. They are now dynamic (via the nostr.band trending profiles API).
This is part of the @Nostriga hackathon work. Shout-out to @brugeman for the API.
While testing, it became clear that the transition from creating a profile to then viewing it is not smooth, so that will be the next thing to improve.
This is part of the @Nostriga hackathon work. Shout-out to @brugeman for the API.
While testing, it became clear that the transition from creating a profile to then viewing it is not smooth, so that will be the next thing to improve.
Profiles now show statuses (if set), so you can share what you're doing or listening to right now. It's pretty basic at the moment.
Use a service like 
to actually set your status. The NIP (38) is still new, do you already use this? If so, how?
nostatus
nostatus
Nostr client for browsing your friends
You can now pull up a nice QR code for each profile.
Also, petnames are show in follow lists, and nostr: links (npub, nprofile) are properly rendered in about text.
Also, petnames are show in follow lists, and nostr: links (npub, nprofile) are properly rendered in about text.
Nosta profiles now also show classifieds you posted.
An example:
Via @Stelios and pinging @JeffG
Clicking one takes you to . The NIP is not merged yet, so things might change and break.
An example:
Nosta
Nostr profiles. Nice and easy.
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Nosta now shows external identities (NIP-39). You can see an example here, where someone has linked their Twitter account.
Have you linked GitHub, Mastodon, or Telegram accounts or know someone who did? Would love to know for testing.
Nosta
Nostr profiles. Nice and easy.
You can now zap profiles on Nosta (only via browser extension right now and of course only profiles that have lightning addresses).
Nosta profiles now show live activities (via the work-in-progress NIP-53).
Example:
One click and you're off to view the stream on 
Some more tweaks to come, like highlighting when the user is currently live. If you have more ideas to improve this, add them here: 
Example:
Nosta
Nostr profiles. Nice and easy.
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Live activities tweaks · Issue #39 · GBKS/nosta-me
This is a follow-up to #37. Live activities show up in profiles, but could use some minor improvements. If a user has an event that is live right n...
The data overlay just got a revision.
Now it shows all the data loaded for your profile, with a convenient nav. Before it was just a long dump of parts of the profile info.
What's missing is a health check. For example, it can point out when you have outdated profile info floating around. Or when your relay list could be optimized. It should be dead simple to keep your profile in good shape. However, this data overlay is a bit more for devs than for users and the health check may live elsewhere. Still, it's nice to have this transparent view behind the scenes.
Now it shows all the data loaded for your profile, with a convenient nav. Before it was just a long dump of parts of the profile info.
What's missing is a health check. For example, it can point out when you have outdated profile info floating around. Or when your relay list could be optimized. It should be dead simple to keep your profile in good shape. However, this data overlay is a bit more for devs than for users and the health check may live elsewhere. Still, it's nice to have this transparent view behind the scenes.
Hear, hear, announcement of a groundbreaking update to Nosta - there's now a loader on profile pages. 🥁
Sometimes it just takes a moment or two. The longer you have to wait, the more intense the emoji gets.
But what should happen if a profile cannot be found at all? Offer to search more relays? Link out to some other service (if there is one) that indexes profiles and might have something? What do you think?
Sometimes it just takes a moment or two. The longer you have to wait, the more intense the emoji gets.
But what should happen if a profile cannot be found at all? Offer to search more relays? Link out to some other service (if there is one) that indexes profiles and might have something? What do you think?
Nosta now shows app recommendations on profiles (NIP-89). They look like this:
Click one and you see details, like this:
This new feature should be great for discovering new clients and more easily connecting with others in the places they are active in.
You can create recommendations via @brugeman's fantastic App Manager here: https://nostrapp.link/
Check his profile to see which apps he recommends:
This feature will be integrated in a few smaller ways into Nosta in the future. For example, when recommending apps during profile setup. Or linking out directly to the apps a user recommends from their profile.
Click one and you see details, like this:
This new feature should be great for discovering new clients and more easily connecting with others in the places they are active in.
You can create recommendations via @brugeman's fantastic App Manager here: https://nostrapp.link/
Check his profile to see which apps he recommends: Nosta
Nostr profiles. Nice and easy.
Nosta is now listed in the Nostr App Manager. This is a new system for recommending apps. Adding apps to your profile helps others find out in which parts of the ecosystem you are active - great for discovery. Nosta profiles will also soon show your app recommendations.
See the Nosta app listing here:
https://nostrapp.link/a/naddr1qqxnzd3cxc6n2d33xymrvwpeqgsp9z7qt2n06ssaqrpuxwyn98eeelr4pvp4mdkd45htp7vrhl6k98crqsqqql8kc4575h
Profile editing on Nosta works now. Some refinements are still to come, like addressing both "name" and "display name", better validation, and tips for potentially confusing fields. Another important feature is indicating when there multiple profile versions were found on relays, letting you pick which one you want to use moving forward, and then updating all relays accordingly. There's always more to do, but the basics should be there now. If you try it, please share your feedback.
The icon for handles (NIP-05) was changed. It was a check, indicating that some type of account verification had happened. That's not accurate though. Handles are just human-readable shortcuts, often provided by third-party providers, without any sort of identification process. The new icon is more general and avoids that association. Based on this conversation on Stacker News: 
Stacker News
NIP-05 is not Verification \ stacker news ~nostr
What is NIP-05 really? If you look at the spec, it's a way to map Nostr public keys to DNS-based internet identifiers, such as name@example.com. If...