Amazing feedback Niel, thank you!
The logo does need a lot of work indeed ๐
The upper navbar has space reserved for at least a couple more icons (wallets, relays), and the bottom one too (tab switcher, tab reactions). I honestly really want to have just a single navbar, but can't come up with a good way to achieve that. Maybe if we discover that most of those buttons aren't really used often then we'd fold them...
The graph-based app recommendations are definitely coming, right now the density of the app usage graph is just not good enough to make anything interesting.
I also have doubts about the idea that people really do need advanced app categorization. NIP-89 should allow us to reduce the need for app categorization - you'd browse content and discover apps contextually when you're viewing/creating/editing some event kind. At least that's the theory.
You're asking a great question of 'what's the focus of this thing? what's the problem it's solving?' I honestly don't have much of a clear answer. Just like nostr itself, it seems to try to solve too many interconnected problems. We'll try to figure things out as we go, so thank you for your perspective, noted!
We tried to avoid focusing on the duties of apps - the content section is very light and is just an invitation to dive into one of the apps. We could just fill the whole screen with app icons, but that's so boring and identical to your existing static smartphone screen... Nostr's data portability is one of the key features, allowing you to have a dashboard of most interesting things happening across the apps. What do you think?
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Great how people appreciate feedback so much on nostr!
Thanks about the navbar update, a double one seems neede then indeed. And it's still early for NIP-89 but in my mind you could be a great guiding force.
For app categorization I meant that in a personal way. As in, the user makes his own folders of apps (Bitcoin Wallets, Social, Writing, ...) as is very commonly done on mobile home screens already. Given the gazzillion new apps every week, this will be needed, for me at least ;)
"a dashboard of most interesting things happening across the apps" is the goal indeed, but if I take inspiration again from android and iOS this might maybe be better handled by an open standard for widgets? Of which you can build the first ones. That way the user can build a custom nostr dashboard.
(And someone like me that is fed up with seeing all the same Trending stuff, all the time, everywhere and doesn't think it has that much signal can just avoid all that).
(I'll maybe draw some stuff up later that came to mind)