I've been working on a customizable client (mostly relay feeds, but a ton of other things and subtle details too). It's called Hallway for reasons I don't remember and it's a fork of Fevela which is a fork of Jumble, but very rewritten for speed and simplicity, and with some new features I haven't seen in any other clients, mostly around interacting with specific relays. Don't try to use it immediately because it is very dry, but is a service that lets you setup the customization options through a form and the resulting static site is deployed to your Netlify account and lives there independently. You can set up the client URL, name and logo, you can configure the strings to make it talk like a Croatian pirate, you can configure some of the colors, styling and so on, you can configure some of what shows up and what doesn't and the default relays and blossom servers used for new users, you can configure what kinds are downloaded in the background and displayed in feeds, but most of the configurations are around the relays: - hardcoded relay-based feed sections, - lists of relays where to publish things or read replies from, - fallback relays, - search relays for profiles or notes. There are many goals to this: - making a client that is good for onboarding a certain type of person, - for creating a closed environment for a specific community, - make it easier for people to use multiple clients at the same time, each with a specific purpose, - others I forgot and yet to be discovered. This is pretty much in experimentation and discovery phase and probably very buggy still, but if the concept interests you please join us at or or and give feedback, suggestions, whatever. Thank you.

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is a silly example of a client that tries to be super closed to single relay. I just found out that it is buggily not blocking replies from external relays in random threads as it was configured to do. If it wasn't for that it would be fully insulated from the exterior, which can be a feature. is another example of a custom experience from @Dawn that I don't fully understand but it's certainly more interesting.
πŸ˜‚ I don't fully understand it either, but I've been aiming for clean(ish), fun & interesting, so that adjective makes me happy. I have been thinking of creating a second instance, for the fully closed experience. It is definitely something certain groups will want. It has already been discussed to some degree in some of my Pyramid sessions, so I better be able to explain how to configure it correctly.
How can I use it? I don’t want to auth with netlify I want nostr πŸ™πŸ˜„β€οΈ
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