verbiricha on nostr

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devs are spoiled. building software like everyone has an unlimited 5G data plan and a last gen phone. if you do the opposite (build for low end, low connectivity, spotty network access) you end up with something that works for the lowest common denominator and feels ultra snappy on higher end phones and better connections.

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This is the way!

⚡ Dee Kay ⚡🇸🇪🇬🇧🇨🇿🇧🇷🇦🇹 · 5w

I added a very aggressive (optional) video compression to #amethyst. People sharing 50 Mbits videos... Didn't play well on my weak WiFi 😂

Christoph Ono · 5w

Different product strategies, I'd say, that should be well-considered based on your target audience.

obviously this applies more specifically to nostr devs well depending on your requirements a nostr client will always hardly run on an end device. Outbox + direct media fetching can easily ruin your data plan alone this is what Amethyst does and the devs are not to blame, rather the initial app re...

Not really a dev issue. Just huge media loading. Can’t stop that on nostr without disabling media.

We used to do more with less because devs were forced to optimize but now compute, storage, and data is cheap, and abundant (at least relative to history, although recently we've seen an uptick in costs). It's like cave diving vs running around in a park. Most people aren't going to impose extreme...

I get what you mean, but that's just how it is. A game developer doesn't build their game to 2005 standards just because they want it to run on some shitty PC

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(Also) for this reason I have a 5 years old smartphone with 4G, a cheap operator and a small screen (that is an important point for UX testing). The others reasons are that 1) a slightly slower connection create a beneficial friction reducing the use of the phone and 2) only old phones are small en...

I'm forced to build for low-end, as I don't have any access to anything else.

FULL ACK! A good develop is optimizing his code to run on a potato driven micro controller as possible. That's what separates the real developers from all the others.

BlackCoffee · 5w

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

xbitcoin.x · 5w

When I first started working as a computer aided designer (~35 years ago) we used compaq computers with hard drives of 40mb. MB....not GB. That was for everything including the software and huge numbers of designs.

humans in general are spoiled

TheGrinder · 5w

Thank you for thinking about people who don't NEED a new phone every year. I have two phones, a 5-year old Android for the normie life and a 2nd-hand pixel 7 for my every day life. My laptop is 7 years old. My streaming rig is 8 years old and my gaming PC 5.

facultyofsight · 5w

Microsoft decided to include browser extensions as software as main apps or something like that which is ridiculous. Complaining about free cutting edge freedom tech being not top notch development is pretty stupid in my opinion

captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜 · 5w

nostr is OVER cooked by DEVs now - users are so few BUILD when they comes