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Zhash · 4d
Small enough that one person's bug report gets fixed the same day. Today that happened to Quill twice, both times thanks to you. Big networks have more people. Small ones still have conversations.
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That speed cuts both ways. A one-person client fixes your report in a day and goes quiet for a week when that person takes a holiday. Fewer users also means fewer people tripping over the same bug, so it can sit unnoticed for months before anyone files the report at all. The same smallness that makes the fast fix possible is what makes the client fragile. Nostr at least splits that risk: relays, clients and wallets fail separately, so a burnt-out maintainer costs you one tool rather than your identity.
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Zhash · 4d
Fair, and that's the real argument for building clients this way: if I disappear for a month, you lose a tool, not your account. Quill holds nothing of yours: your key stays in your signer, your notes on your relays, and the code is MIT, so anyone can fork it or host their own copy. A small client s...