New #NoorNote major update!
A lot has changed.
I switched the internal framework from Tauri to Electron. It took several days and was no fun at all. But now the app runs smoother, faster, snappier. Plus, a few Tauri bugs that have been bugging me for a while are fixed. For example, fullscreen videos now work on mobile because Tauri could only use the OS's WebView. Electron uses Chromium. The mobile app has also shrunk from 20MB to 12MB. Damn, which Nostr client is this small and has so many features?
A ton of frontend refactoring and redesign. While everyone else is using some weird Tailwind CSS frameworks, I'm doing Atomic Design UI components with BEM notation. Lots of common constructs got generalized and reused, which means fewer DOM nodes and less CSS. And Mr. @ابو مريم thinks it looks like iOS. I don't have iOS and no idea what iOS looks like right now, so maybe it's just a coincidence?
I've been tweaking the performance too, which is an ongoing task anyway.
Improved a bunch of existing features and fixed bugs, added a few new event kinds, some stuff should display better now.
Improved the addons system even more. If you don't need a certain functionality, just leave the switch off and the code won't load into the app. That keeps the core slim because I don't want to force features on you that you can't or don't want to use. There are 13 addons in total now, more to come. My current favorite: custom emojis.
You can even find other people's custom emoji packs and import some or all into your pack. And then use it as a Like, or inside a note or reply (start typing ':good' to choose from a pulldown list).
Overhauled and better organized the settings area. The client tag is off by default, so whether "via NoorNote" shows up in your note or not is up to you. I'm not that keen on top charts.
You can now write longform articles in focus mode without distractions. @47, you wanted something like that. You can also backdate articles now with the published_at field, next to the created_at field. It's optional but recommended. It's kinda for me too, because I'm thinking about porting my articles from my website to Nostr. Google has been screwing us publishers for a long time and doesn't give us any juice anymore.
And a lot of other improvements that I can't list here.
The next thing I have planned is gonna be big. Focused on commerce. It's what I had in mind from the start when I began developing NoorNote. 8 months later, I'm finally there.
And tell me about your feature wishlist. I'll most likely implement everything step by step.
Download it either on https://noornote.app/download/
Or the desktop app for Linux and Mac on Github: https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v0.8.1
Or the GrapheneOS App on @Zapstore
It's also available in @Keychat
And of course the newest dev version is always on https://noornote.app/
A lot has changed.
I switched the internal framework from Tauri to Electron. It took several days and was no fun at all. But now the app runs smoother, faster, snappier. Plus, a few Tauri bugs that have been bugging me for a while are fixed. For example, fullscreen videos now work on mobile because Tauri could only use the OS's WebView. Electron uses Chromium. The mobile app has also shrunk from 20MB to 12MB. Damn, which Nostr client is this small and has so many features?
A ton of frontend refactoring and redesign. While everyone else is using some weird Tailwind CSS frameworks, I'm doing Atomic Design UI components with BEM notation. Lots of common constructs got generalized and reused, which means fewer DOM nodes and less CSS. And Mr. @ابو مريم thinks it looks like iOS. I don't have iOS and no idea what iOS looks like right now, so maybe it's just a coincidence?
I've been tweaking the performance too, which is an ongoing task anyway.
Improved a bunch of existing features and fixed bugs, added a few new event kinds, some stuff should display better now.
Improved the addons system even more. If you don't need a certain functionality, just leave the switch off and the code won't load into the app. That keeps the core slim because I don't want to force features on you that you can't or don't want to use. There are 13 addons in total now, more to come. My current favorite: custom emojis.
You can even find other people's custom emoji packs and import some or all into your pack. And then use it as a Like, or inside a note or reply (start typing ':good' to choose from a pulldown list).
Overhauled and better organized the settings area. The client tag is off by default, so whether "via NoorNote" shows up in your note or not is up to you. I'm not that keen on top charts.
You can now write longform articles in focus mode without distractions. @47, you wanted something like that. You can also backdate articles now with the published_at field, next to the created_at field. It's optional but recommended. It's kinda for me too, because I'm thinking about porting my articles from my website to Nostr. Google has been screwing us publishers for a long time and doesn't give us any juice anymore.
And a lot of other improvements that I can't list here.
The next thing I have planned is gonna be big. Focused on commerce. It's what I had in mind from the start when I began developing NoorNote. 8 months later, I'm finally there.
And tell me about your feature wishlist. I'll most likely implement everything step by step.
Download it either on https://noornote.app/download/
Or the desktop app for Linux and Mac on Github: https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v0.8.1
Or the GrapheneOS App on @Zapstore
It's also available in @Keychat
And of course the newest dev version is always on https://noornote.app/
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