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Tiel Estu TielEstu@nostr-check.me 9 months ago
Amethyst is a Swiss Army knife, packed with extremely useful features such as relay suggestions, auto-translation, likes and zaps report on each post, graphs, zap splitting in shared posts and much, much more. And, even with all these tools, Amethyst is absurdly fluid, from loading the home screen (splash) to regular navigation. However, the graphical user interface leaves a bit to be desired. In my opinion, the best UIs are from Primal (the most beautiful and intuitive) and FreeFrom (an honorable second place). Primal's integration with the lightning wallet is also worthy of applause. Of course, Primal and FreeFrom do not have the excellent features offered by Amethyst and, in the case of FreeFrom, it still has the problem of the absurdly slow loading screen.
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Tiel Estu TielEstu@nostr-check.me 9 months ago
Very well put! This is a shortcoming that even great clients suffer from. This is not only the case with Primal, but also with FreeFrom. Unfortunately, my private key has been quite promiscuous and I run risks like this by putting my key directly there. What I can tell you is, since you have a virgin private key, stay with Amethyst and be happy until Primal becomes compatible with Amber. After all, Amethyst is also excellent and, I can say, superior in most aspects, losing only in the UI and, in some points, in the UX.
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Tiel Estu TielEstu@nostr-check.me 9 months ago
It needs to be simple to be preferred by users. Look at Instagram and other successful social networks that even grandma can use. There are people coming to Nostr every day, testing different clients and sticking to the simplest and most intuitive ones (Primal and FreeFrom). At first, sophistication comes second. I have no doubt that there are people who even give up using Nostr due to its lack of practicality, intuitiveness and beauty. For more information, the more advanced user could tap the post report button and see details about the reactions received. In fact, this post report could be presented, preferably in a pop-up window, as I suggested earlier, so as not to mix with the clean information on the screen.
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