Guys, this is not just for Muslims. This is for EVERYONE who deals with money. So, everyone older than 7 years old. View quoted note →

It's Friday and somebody said, he wanted a font size switcher in #NoorNote. You may think, it's just a font size switcher, but it required some CSS refactoring. Yeah, I know, my fault. I should have set up the CSS architecture correctly right from the beginning. But here it is now: Any other urgent wishes? Wishes where you'd say, if you implement THAT, then I will love NoorNote! I still have a little time until Ramadan, because after that I will slow down the development on it a bit. I have been working on it without a break since the beginning of September '25. I would like to say I'm taking Ramadan off, but I know myself. I probably will not quite manage to leave that thing alone completely for a whole month. Jumu'ah mubarak!

Damn, they're coming. There you have your mass adoption. View quoted note →

#NoorNote's zap modal has a changed a bit and the quick zap logic behind it (hope it works now, npub1h0uj825jgcr9lzxyp37ehasuenq070707pj63je07n8mkcsg3u0qnsrwx8). See zap settings at

NoorNote - feature-rich, fast, secure Nostr client

NoorNote - feature-rich, fast, secure Nostr client.

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@Keychat can we have getBalance in the WebLN injection? I know the balance logic exists internally in NwcController.getBalance() and EcashController.getBalance(), but it's deliberately not exposed through the WebLN interface.

There's a new #NoorNote version online at

NoorNote - feature-rich, fast, secure Nostr client

NoorNote - feature-rich, fast, secure Nostr client.

with lots of tweaks for small screens and especially made to work great with Keychat. That lets you use NoorNote mobile on your smartphones under GrapheneOS, iOS, and Android. Download @Keychat , enter your identity (best through Amber), and connect a Lightning wallet via NWC (after that you do not need to enter an NWC string in the NoorNote Zap settings anymore). Then in the Apps area, just type noornote.app in the URL line, log in via the extension, and you can use NoorNote mobile just like always. View quoted note →

I can understand that. It's somehow like suddenly becoming an adult. View quoted note →

Oh, a few wannabe Nostr thinkers are starting to worry more again about why we are not getting any of that exodus from the big social media platforms. And they think it is because of some hexadecimal IDs or other stuff that does not look exactly like those familiar big platforms. And solutions are being thrown around that all point toward centralization. So for these people, Nostr should basically be represented by just one client. And be as easy to use as the big platforms. I think they have not understood Nostr at all and they cave in too easily and actually turn back to centralized structures, even if they are supposed to be simulated on a decentralized protocol. We like to talk about a free markets here, but we want the quickest possible consolidation around a quasi platform, a quasi client for all. End the Nostr client development, let us finally do some marketing, they say. Nothing will come of that. Sacrificing Nostr's strengths just to go back to old centralized structures. By the way, we already have two examples in internet history, actually three, that show us when a platform built momentum: 1. One chose the private, college approach (Meta) 2. Another drew attention with content that had never been seen on the internet before (Weblogs) 3. And the other introduced citizen journalism and reported for the first time on things that were real but not yet in any newspaper (Twitter). Even if that trend is reversing now. It was always just about content. Content is king. Still is. None of them had to do excessive marketing, the users came on their own. What are Nostr's unique contents? We haven't created anything unique here that would attract anyone (I include myself in that), except complaining, self praise, and a general relieved "phew, finally free to post what I want". We are still too conditioned by the big platforms and just don't want to be censored with our mostly toxic content. But what is new and productive with us? Our developers are the most. Except they are still a bit too detached from the mainstream. But the potential is there. AI shows good approaches, Bitchat shows a big niche market. But our real strength has not become visible yet: crisis resilience. Because we don't have the big crisis yet where Nostr would really flourish. If all fiat ways were closed and no influencer could earn anything anymore, if all big platforms were ruined by over-moderation from algorithms, if all creativity and expression were suppressed, then Nostr would really bloom. We are already on the way, but not quite there yet. But when we get there, when Nostr becomes the only refuge island, we better should have built suitable decentralized structures that affect local life. Then we will not need marketing either, then the masses would come on their own. We need to keep evolving toward a more human network. Real communities form through free exchange of goods and services for hard money. Not through "hodlers" who stubbornly cling to their coins and wait for the right moment to trade them back for fiat and buy a yacht. Check out how many Africans and Asians are doing it. They are already benefiting from Bitcoin, from its features of unrestricted commerce free from institutional players. Western hodlers, who treat it like a long term investment and then maybe die or lose access to their coins (oops) before they could do anything with them, don't create such markets and communities.

Tonight is Lailatul Barat where I live. I know in some regions it's tomorrow night. Whenever it is for you, stick to your majority local community and do not miss this night. May Allah ﷻ forgive us all and make us successful.

Here's a quick rundown of the onboarding process in the new NoorNote 0.4.0 desktop app: 1. New users start off on the welcome screen. 2. A key pair gets generated automatically. But you can regenerate them as many times as you want. 3. You're prompted to download a backup. But you can also optionally save it somewhere, like in a password manager. 4. It only moves on once you confirm the backup. 5. Now you can import this key pair into the local key signer. 6. You set your password for the trust session... 7. ...then it continues after a success message. 8. In the next screen, a few random usernames get generated. But of course, you can set your own. 9. Then you can pick a profile picture or upload one yourself. 10. And create a bio. 11. Then the new user gets three random suggestions from the 15 largest relays. You can reroll them and even enter your own. But here's the thing: Even if the user picks some dumb relays, like really obscure ones, it barely affects how NoorNote works. Like when displaying users and notes that aren't on your own relays. That's thanks to the outbound relays principle. 12. NIP-17 DMs need your own inbox relays. Hardly any newbie knows that. No big deal, it suggests four suitable ones, and the user should pick two. Over time, I could add more options there too. 13. So the new user's timeline doesn't end up empty, it now suggests some thematically curated follow packs. 14. Once the user makes their selection, it moves on. 15. Now all that's left is a Lightning wallet for zapping and getting zapped. The most common newbie mistake with new accounts is avoiding setting it up. That's understandable, who even helps with that at the start? 16. After you sign up at Rizful and click "Open Rizful," you get a one-time code that you copy... 17. ...and paste into the wizard. When you hit "Connect" after that, it fetches the NWC string and enters it into NoorNote. 18. Finally, there's a little summary, and with "Save & Go to timeline," everything gets published to the relays, NoorNote loads the timeline as usual, and the user can jump right in. In the web browser, the order in the wizard is a little different. It recommends installing Alby first, simply because it's the only browser extension that stores sensitive data encrypted right in the browser. That cuts down the attack surface from other malicious browser extensions, for example. And the Alby setup starts off with connecting a Lightning wallet anyway. That's why the Rizful step gets moved up, right after guiding the new user through the Alby installation. After that, the wizard steps are just like in the desktop version.