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Absolutely agree. I made this first version and invited anyone from Nostr and a few groups I'm in to test it out. I've had a couple of requests for a Firefox version, but that would only be some time after the Chrome extension has gotten some more traction and I can be sure there's real demand and not just 3 people asking about it. I'm not a Firefox user, so I don't think I would be able to give it the level of attention that needs right now. (But since this is open source, I hope someone is inspired enough to build their own version in the meantime.)
I appreciate the early feedback, please keep it coming.
Sidecar is an unlisted release, and has not been extensively tested on every browser yet.
If anyone has suggestions on what to improve, drop a note in the GitHub issues tab.
The link is in the app’s About page when you click the logo at the bottom.
Maybe try resetting your browser cache? I just did a fresh install of Helium and it worked for me on the first try.
Most people still think its primary use case is crime, and it doesn’t exactly help that prominent bitcoiners spent the last few years bending over for every crooked politician that promised to pump their bags.
Understood on the first point. My suggestion was for the user flow to go from the homepage grid to a modal gallery with the enlarged image, where the viewer can explore the artist's work without leaving the homepage. This gives the user the option to exit out of the modal to browse other photographers, or continue on to the photographer's page via a link from the modal gallery.
This is a really beautiful site. I especially like the dark mode toggle with multiple themes.
One comment I have is that I wonder if you should make the image thumbnails all the same size (crop them to a square or rectangle), but then open a modal to display the photo in its true dimensions. This would allow a visitor to browse the homepage gallery without having to navigate back to it from the photographer's page after each click, but they can still continue to the artist's profile from the expanded photo.
The majority of Nostr users who stuck around are about 3 years in at this point.
What's one thing you think is needed for Damus specifically (and Nostr in general) to be relevant 3 years from now?
This is always a problem with users who don’t pay attention and think that custodial wallets are meant for long-term storage.
Back in 2023, BlueWallet shut down its public Lightning node because they saw a large increase in usage, most likely due to Nostr zapping. They posted some messages on their blog and social media but didn’t have a way to contact any of their users directly. To this day I still run into people who gave up on Lightning because they had sats on BlueWallet that they lost, and they assumed Lightning itself didn’t work.
If you have money stored on a website, or in an app, and you don’t have the keys, you should assume it’s just an IOU. It’s not anyone’s responsibility but yours to take ownership. It wasn’t stolen from you. You abandoned it.
What are you doing to address the speed of swaps? In real-world testing I've seen a Lightning <> Liquid swap take around 30 seconds, in some cases longer. This is a major friction point for retail. Tap-to-pay customers and merchants are expecting a near-instant payment confirmation, and when they have to sit there awkwardly waiting for a payment to be accepted, it can cause anxiety and disillusionment.
Hi Kilian! Thanks for hosting this AMA.
My first question is about centralization. Now that a lot of new products have been released that rely on Boltz for their basic functionality, it raises concerns of there being a single point of failure should these swap services become temporarily or permanently unavailable, or outright banned in certain jurisdictions. What's being done to decrease that type of risk?
Just to follow up on this, Sidecar has been tested and works with Vivaldi. I only tested the most recent version 1.3.0 which is currently pending review in the Chrome Web Store but no reason to suspect the prior versions would not also work with it.