I totally hear you, and I agree that stability and performance are crucial. However, my concern isn’t about the GIF keyboard itself—it’s more about the lack of response to user feedback. I’ve personally supported the Damus team with a few million sats over the years, and it’s frustrating to see development time spent on pet projects that don’t align with the community’s expressed needs, while ignoring something as simple to implement as a gif keyboard.

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HoloKat 1 year ago
This is how I feel about note deck. It’s cool for people who care to use it I guess but I know for sure I won’t use it much. I’d love to see other features implemented first that we already started on like muting for X duration or adding notes to profiles. I guess one nice thing to come from exploring on your own is the potential performance improvements that can be implemented into iOS down the road, but at the moment note deck feels like a year long distraction from what could have been an amazing iOS client. For this reason I also stopped donating sats in the same capacity as I used to. I’ll admit though that maybe I don’t have the full picture and there is demand for note deck and I’m just blind to it 🤷‍♂️
I can't #grownostr and onboard new users if the app crashes or is slow or things just don't work correctly. Stability is more important. Sure, a GIF button might seem like a no-brainer, I think it is, but in the absolute grand scheme of things, it's probably lower on the priority list compared to basic functions. @jb55 has said that he wants to implement a GIF button that doesn't track users, so it's not as simple as just implementing a Tenor API. We (nostr) essentially need to build the foundation. @lemon had a nice note about this recently. I used to really want a GIF keyboard, but now it's a lower priority for me. I now see other things as much more important. That's all.
View Notedeck as a Nostr browser, more like a Nostr OS. The picture is very large. It's also an incredible task that will take a long time to build out. It's hard for me to argue points about Damus development slowing down or whatever because I'm not a Damus user. I am happy to get a taste of Will's early intelligence with Notedeck though. Notedeck is the future of Damus. Now maybe if it was 75% complete and he went to work on another project, I'd feel differently.
Nothing personal against you, and high 5 to all that donations - but something like a gif-keybord is really the least thing i could think of. I mean, thats totally unrelated to nostr. Aren't there some "gif capable kryboards" you just install on your device? Who needs that? It's (gifs) just unneccesarily incrementing throughput on tor nodes to deliver a GIF.
I have a friend that called himself a "tech prostitute: I solve problems for money; give me more money and I'll work for you"