Last Notes
I reread this and I mostly agree. I think I had agreed at the time too but couldn't answer because it was too much it was easier to not do anything.
On the subject of relay categorization:
I like the cosmology metaphors for relay distiguishment. The concept really does meld with some language already used, with some people describing users as "nostronauts", exploring the "nostrverse", etc. Clients could adopt loose terminology to convey their purposes too. Ships, rockets, stations... satellites... if that's still alive. :) Constellations of things that play nicely together would make some wonderful diagrams.
First sentiments to it appeared about equally split. I didn't pay enough attention to urbit to understand if that actually created negative connotations around the theme. Writing about Nostr in space terms could make for some fun reads. A whole Nostr space odyssey sounds like a job for Constant. There's even a few people who read & discuss Space, who might help to create an appropriate glossary. Karnage, being the first who comes to mind.
Other analogies, such places people congregate could work. Cafés, parks, boardrooms, etc. The "town square", "village", and "post office" metaphors already resonate. I think that specific theme could become too officious in appearance over time, though, as critical infra relays had to be assigned a searchable category. There are other things... publication types being one that offers some variance.
If getting enough people to support a theme isn't viable, maybe simple adjectives could be leveraged. Taking a page out of the education field as an example:
- interactive
- constructive
- active
- passive
...with some access words and purpose words. Boring but probably effective.
As far as burying the term "relay" as best as possible, "box" already has some basic understanding in naming conventions and it's easy to append. Also boring but relatively simple to understand. People like boxes, even if they deny that fact. We could have inboxes, outboxes, chatterboxes, gift boxes, storage boxes, etc.
Anyway... this is open to feedback lol
The intro on the landing page, "get useful replies..." should say "reward useful replies..." or similar. Incentive to be smart sometimes makes people act dumber. It's currently a false promise.
The whole explanation could use expansion, such as 2 separate sections about posting and replying. It's not hard to understand, but vague.
As far as the relay, I feel like some piece is missing. I'm not sure what. Maybe:
I assume could reply to you 10 times hoping you will like one of them. Should there be a limit prior to a like? 3 maybe? Could the like transfer a credit and unlock unlimited replies to that note or something? Or the first reply is free, consecutive ones cost a credit unless the author engages? (Maybe this is going to cost me a credit already. I have no idea what's happening haha)
Also, I don't know if something might happen since I haven't sent this reply yet, but a thing that pops up the feed (like you did with the hashtags but generic) with a link to buy credits would be good.
I guess I just uncovered a vulnerability: someone can spend other people's credits by republishing their events here. Changing it now to require the "-" tag should fix it.
Damn, I've published this to the wrong place now and wasted my credits. @npub1syj…f6wl how can I _not_ publish to a specific relay? Maybe publishing to the main active relay shouldn't be automatic.
I made this relay https://feedback.relays.land/ which is kinda like what I roughly described here:
#nevent1q…vmph
It probably needs some tuning, but it kinda works. If you're willing to give it a try it should be live at wss://feedback.relays.land/.
Remember that the likes have to be published to the relay directly in order to be counted.
"-" is not required this time.
What do you mean by rendering engine? Wouldn't that be the DOM and the browser itself, which is written in C++?
But that was my point: cross-platform, but it's bad on mobile (unless you have ultrafast internet and a very expensive device) and no one uses desktops (or at least that's what I'm constantly told), so is such cross-platformness really valuable?
If you have a group of users interested in actively curating a feed like that that would be good, let me know and we can set up another of such relays. It would be nice to have a competing feed (well, not competing, but one with a different focus).
@npub1njs…7fqx @npub1m4n…c2jl maybe you know someone (probably not).
What do you think of the idea of this relay? What could be changed? What could be explained better on https://feedback.relays.land/?