This morning several UK banks (Revolut, Lloyds, HSBC, Bank of Scotland) are partly down. The likely cause: Google Cloud's London region having problems since around 06:00 GMT. Nobody got hacked and the money is safe. But for a few hours people couldn't pay or log in, because one zone of one provider failed. Revolut's status page kept saying "all systems operational" while it happened. That's the hidden cost of everything running on the same three clouds: one bad morning in one data centre and half a country's payments stall. It's also why I like Nostr's design. If one relay goes down, your notes are on others, and your identity is a key, not an account on someone's server. Bitcoin works the same way: no single data centre to fail.

Why don't you always see every reply to a note on Nostr? Everyone publishes to the relays they chose for writing. They also announce other relays where they read: that's where others should send them replies and mentions. It's their "inbox" (NIP-65). The problem is that your client usually only asks your own relays. If someone replied on a relay you don't use, that reply doesn't exist for you, even though it's out there. Quill now also asks up to 3 of the note author's read relays when you open a thread. If it finds replies your relays didn't have, you'll see a note about it under the thread. Tip for everyone: check your relay list (kind 10002), and keep your read relays few, stable and open to others writing to you. That way replies actually reach you.

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¿Por qué a veces no ves todas las respuestas a una nota en Nostr? Cada persona publica en los relés que ha elegido para escribir. Además, anuncia otros relés donde lee: ahí es donde los demás deberían dejarle las respuestas y menciones. Es su «buzón» (NIP-65). El problema es que tu cliente suele preguntar solo a tus relés. Si alguien respondió en un relé que tú no usas, para ti esa respuesta no existe, aunque esté ahí. En Quill ahora, al abrir un hilo, también se pregunta a hasta 3 relés de lectura del autor de la nota. Si aparecen respuestas que tus relés no tenían, lo verás indicado bajo el hilo. Consejo para todos: revisa tu lista de relés (kind 10002) y que tus relés de lectura sean pocos, estables y abiertos a que otros te escriban. Así tus respuestas te llegan.

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Quill update 🪶 - Opening a reply from Mentions takes you straight to it in the thread, highlighted - New Drafts section in Me: pick up any unfinished note, reply or quote - Quotes of polls, articles and other event kinds now show what they are instead of a bare link - Followers list shows since when each person follows you - Smoother scrolling: notes that didn't change are kept as they are, so no jumps while things load - Lists load more by themselves as you reach the end - Threads also look for replies on the author's own inbox relays, and tell you how many came from there - Keyboard and screen reader fixes: arrows and Esc in menus, emoji panel and @mentions - Every notice now closes with a × Still text-first, still explaining why it hides things.

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Small Quill update (quill.hivescope.xyz), a text-first Nostr client: • Following now checks for new notes every minute. If you're scrolled down, a "↑ N new notes" button puts them on top, without moving what you're reading. • Quoted polls (NIP-88) show their question and options instead of an empty box. • Custom emoji reactions show as ✨ instead of their raw :name:. Their images aren't loaded, so no third-party server sees who's reading. • Fewer false "new follower" alerts: some relays answer late, and that's no longer mistaken for a new follow. • Scrolling a thread on iPhone no longer stops while it loads. Feedback welcome.

@nostrich I have a lot of bugs in the app in iOS. Sometimes it’s unusable 🥲

🎃 Quill has a Halloween theme. From 24 October to 1 November it turns on by itself: purple and pumpkin colours, a pumpkin and a cobweb in the header, the quill turns orange, the wording gets a little spooky, and 🎃 👻 🦇 💀 🕷️ join the reactions. You can also pick Halloween avatars: pumpkins, ghosts, bats, skulls, black cats, spiders and witches, each drawn from the account's key, nothing loaded from anywhere. Can't wait? Turn it on now in Settings. And if spooky isn't your thing, switch it off: Quill remembers your choice.

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Some news in Quill, the text-first Nostr client that tells you why it hides things: - Your notes, safe (Settings): Quill checks which of your relays hold each of your notes and articles, copies the missing ones to your relays exactly as signed (nothing is signed again), and downloads a file with everything you published. Some relays may refuse old notes or people outside their web of trust: Quill tells you, and your notes stay on the others. - The Following tab is now Feeds. - Articles shared as primal.net links get a Read button, and an article's pictures and cover load when you open it. - Threads show the replies some apps hang from a reply instead of the real root. - The numbers under your notes update while the app stays open.

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New in Quill, the text-first Nostr client that tells you why it hides things: • Pick of the day: every morning an AI picks a dozen notes worth reading from the last two days, each with a short summary. Same for everyone; your filter still applies. It sits at the top of Highlights. • Other people's notes now show how many replies they got, next to their zaps. Still no like counts. • What your notes got (reactions, reposts, replies, zaps) shows under them wherever they appear, not only in Me. • Back from a note, the feed is where you left it, instantly, without loading again. And nothing jumps while you read. • Profile pictures (optional) come as tiny thumbnails from Quill's server: kilobytes instead of megabytes, and the picture hosts don't see your IP. • A new quill icon. 🪶

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A few more things in Quill, the text-first Nostr client that tells you why it hides things: • Send zaps with your own wallet through Nostr Wallet Connect. The connection string stays only on that device, with a clear warning that it can spend, and Quill pays only if the invoice asks for exactly the amount you chose. • Other people's notes now show their zaps, and who sent them. Only zaps: Quill never shows how many likes or reposts a note got, so a count doesn't decide what looks important. • Notes that arrive from people's own relays while you are reading further down no longer move the page: a button at the top says how many came. • Optional real profile pictures, off by default and only for people you follow. Everyone else keeps a drawn avatar, so no spam account can put a picture in front of you.

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More news in Quill, the text-first Nostr client that tells you why it hides things: • Zaps: your notes show the sats they got and who sent them, checked against the zap receipt. • Drafts: what you write is kept if you leave the page. • You can edit your profile description and delete your own notes. • Two new filter rules: notes made of mentions (used to flood someone's notifications), and notes that are not text (an app's JSON or a long base64 blob posted as a note). Both say why; you can open them anyway. • The trust score now weighs your own network: an account vouched for by people you follow counts more, and one muted by them counts less. • Search has Filters: show all, people or notes, and search in what is loaded or, only if you choose it, in the network. • People are also read where they write (NIP-65): if someone you follow publishes only on relays that are not yours, Quill asks a few of theirs, just for them. A switch in Settings turns it off.

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But this note got blocked by the Damus relay again. It definitely looks like intermittent rate limiting 👇🏻 View quoted note →