I'd love to have a client or filter that doesn't show images or videos, only short text notes. And I'd love to have a client that only shows images. And one for just videos.

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That could also be a toggle in an omnicomprensive client, like Amethyst. Vitor?
Not sure if this is true in this particular case or not but it's usually due to developer burnout. I've seen it happen over and over again. The more exciting a new project is, the greater the risk. The initial excitement and FOMO is a double edged sword. It initially causes them to spend all their spare time on it, but this can often cause burnout and flip to an equally strong opposite emotion of disgust as their subconscious screams "all the hard work you've done on this will never pay off".
What I'm talking about is a dense view of just text, no images, no URLs. If you disable image loading in Amethyst the posts will still take up all of the screen real estate. Compare that with the old reddit interface, or stacker news, for example.
@Sirius this was the idea mentioned in DMs. Iris iOS app top bar is perfect for toggling options, right now itโ€™s just โ€œPostsโ€ and โ€œPost And Repliesโ€ but it could also have โ€œLong Formโ€, โ€œShort Notesโ€, โ€œGIFsโ€, et al. We were going to make a nostr client just like this called Nestr, but now I hope Iris adds it and many others! The more the merrier.
Filters to start โ€” open-source store of algorithms are the end-game. Filters may be more powerful than we realize in saving people time scrolling.
Thank you! Fully agree. Would be much nicer for average users like me too, not having those links everywhere. Maybe a good new feature for #amethyst to get the option to hide them and showing just the small round load icon in the post?
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Bรถrje 2 years ago
How does Nostr handle videos? Video in general needs lots of hosting and bandwidth compared to text and pics..
@npub1t9a5...h4uw certainly was competent and churned out quality work in no time. It was the most promising for some time apart from being closed source. And what happened then is kind of the reason why I hated to help him debug it. I had sent numerous bug reports his way for what?
You never know whoโ€™ll stick around. This makes contributing to open source projects ever more meaningful - even if original project dies your contributions can be put into practice by other ones.
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