Guys, seriouslyβ¦WTF is even happening?
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Nostr.band has felt abandoned for quite a while now.
Yeah, some people have offered to take it over, but the developer has refused to let it go.
I think it's abandoned.
Artur said some time ago that other priorities had come up and that nostr .band & related services were no longer being maintained. They were only being left available at the time because there were no alternatives.
Weird. He had asked if anyone wanted to take over. I lost track after that part of the conversation.
He stopped responding.
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Oh, dang. I hope he's alright.
There still arenβt any. Fourteen waves of OpenSats grants and we donβt have a working metrics dashboard or search engine.
Like pretty much everything else around here. 
I believe that's free open source software
No, not directly, but npub.world shows decent ecosystem stats, now that they have some data & they're people search works really well.
ants.sh works for other searches, albiet not as plainly as a typical search engine.
By-user metrics are definitely harder to find now... but I'm okay with that. Those stats were always incomplete from incompatibilities anyway.
nosey
nosey
A Nostr searcher
True!
Nostr: where things barely work, and yet somehow weβre still here
Also noogle. Nostr.band was a very local maximum
Well, I'm paying money for hosting and services that according to fiatjaf suck. There are not close enough zaps to cover costs. I still do it because I like Nostr. People take things for granted until they are not.
Weird I just build stuff on Nostr for myself and if others use it cool.
We just need to have more options. I forked nsecbunker a while back and got it working again so maybe thats my next project.
I need to investigate the alternatives!
Your name threw me off for a moment π
I got the same message from nostr.band I think it was, last time I tried to check it.
Or maybe it was one of those nostr wrapped things, something recently gave me the same warning
whack-a-mole app
Worth it still.
Doesnβt @fiatjaf think every Nostr project sucks? Unless theyβre some obscure zero use case
Yeah π. It's fine. Just saying despite the negative press, coveffe.
Or you build something a lot of people will actually use and then your grant is denied and they instead support some shitty vibe coded app. Fun times.
So what's your verdict of the bigger picture here from a higher vantage point?
That was like at least 6 months ago or more
you forgot that a search engine is a hard thing to do
We had a whole conversation about it. It would be a shame if this went away forever and no one continued building and improving the project.
I did? Surely someone with some grant funding could have built something functional in the past three years.
I donβt believe I have a higher vantage point. Iβm just annoyed to services like these disappear with no communication from the developers. They just leave their shit broken and donβt even bother to properly sunset their projects and post a public update.
That's valuable Intel. I am sorry this is triggering frustration. Yeah, it feels concerning.
What does this mean practically? #Plebchain #AskNostr
very few nostr apps. Hive Talk, Corny Chat, and Relay Tools, for example, are NOT nostr apps.
I use this:
Testing Nsec Remote Nostr Signer.
https://shop.lnbits.com/product/nsec-remote-nostr-signer
#nostr #signer
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This is why I think it's important to have a profit motive. I pay for services so I can't be told I have no right to expect something in return. Of course the owner can still default and lose me that money, but at least I can stop paying if they don't seem to give a damn (or can't because of economics) and fund someone who wants to earn a living giving a damn. And I'm increasingly unwilling to provide any funding until they sufficiently prove they give a damn and won't just leave me hanging if I adopt their thing.
Obviously this isn't an absolute shield, but I think it's an overall good approach.
Easy come, easy go.
This looks cool
Doesn't help that retards like you join in gangstalking and mass muting people like me who've been talking about these issues & trying to fix them much longer
yes I was being sarcastic
most grantees seem to be more worried about traveling or delivering half baked apps no one wants
also probably refactoring
Only partially true, they also enjoy dining in expensive restaurants.
Hey thanks!! Straight and to the point
lol
Please alert CEO @Derek Ross
He knows. These have been dead for a while.
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