the state of long-form publishing on nostr is so abysmal every time I want to publish something i want to claw my eyes out

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this was the winner of many recent clients I tried: It's got some bugs, but it's definitely at the front of the pack now IMHO.
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OK, Longform roundup continues... * #habla.news editing is offline indefinitely * #yakihonne doesn't do subtitles * #highlighter works pretty well, but won't let you use a URL for a cover image New additions: * https://www.longform.space/ Looks OK, but can't remove images, plus a few other random bugs * https://decentnewsroom.com/ very bare-bones, barely functional for authoring 5 clients, each with some crippling bug 🤪#grownostr
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Seems a bit buggy. Login with extension didn’t work the first time. For some reason “Select All” => “Delete” doesn’t work (CTRL+A, backspace). Not sure what’s going on there. I like that I can both upload an image and use an URL, that’s good. I also like that I can paste markdown.
Kewl! While we're at it, it's not exactly part of the core functionality of something like this, but it might be useful to have something like "generate a cover image" that sends the text of the essay as a prompt to an image AI... Everyone wants an image for their essay!
that's exactly the problem. The CommonMark spec is ridiculously detailed and includes a LOT of rules and exceptions to resolve pretty much every ambiguity. this makes it very hard to implement because you have to adhere to this behemoth of a ruleset. And it turns into the worst of both words, it's stuck in time, and it's heavy. And yet fragmentation still abounds, with all these dialects. Moxie Marlinspike is right in that article, the frozen-in-time effect of interop standardisation is often bad new for users who just want things to work.
The long-term vision is to give nostr-native media suggestions to pick from based on content, and to invite artists to contribute to a pool of high quality options.
No worries, please don’t change your roadmap because of me. I’m probably an outlier. Just wanted to mention it.
Got hit with a "Publishing failed: HTTP 403:” - not sure what's going on. Not even sure what relays it’s trying to hit.
Well, cringe. Form validation failed in a really stupid manner. Didn’t get so far to publish to any relays. Updated with a fix.