Nostria

Downtime! Nostria Media Server, Relay Server and Indexer Relay will be offline for some days beginning Sunday 13th. Nostr is luckily desentralized so hopefully shouldn't affect too much, but your media in your posts might not be accessible if you solely rely on Nostrias servers. We're sorry for the inconvenience. The downtime might be prolonged. To prepare, you can sync your media library under Collections/Media to any other media server.

What Happened to the McStays? This is a new crime story podcast that is popular, the first episode is out and you can listen to it without leaving Nostria.

Introducing Podcasts in Nostria! The Nostr native podcast protocol. Enjoy some of the podcasts already available, a lot more is coming. https://mibo.nostria.app/a720276ce3998599d478acf447d509458289d5636fa6207438086044eff8cf95.jpeg https://mibo.nostria.app/54bbb66b40f3655e986fb26b166e37c6918cfd66a631ee6d43d7c793724c444b.webp https://mibo.nostria.app/cd1e34ecd79238c193402f7be987a83695bf749aad014819b0f8d6d2f2c32f6d.webp https://mibo.nostria.app/e810adb9a4d5f4bf32ee1f45ba7df531d1ed6480d3f807d1661814e26ca15bdb.webp https://mibo.nostria.app/8304f75fca196047d4e3f7df1058a997a8d523156b27afab6b15e7509d7ea465.webp

More improvements in latest release:

• Improves the private community chats, including more admin features. Ability to upload icons and banners.
• Encrypted photos upload for private communities, including compression preview. Shows icon on media if encrypted or not.
• Adds full reaction selection for private communities.
• Improve layout with dual-pane, allowing you to keep your community open while reading notes or articles.
• Reduces the amount of chunk JavaScript files by 23%, improving loading times.
• Updates dependency packages to latest versions.
• reliable NIP-42 auth for NIP-17 DMs
• Finally you can send DM's to
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  using Nostria! 🥳

Some new featured added recently:

• Profile photo editing
• Fix issue with lists on article editor.
• Added feed filtering for posts with many tags.

Experimental features:

• Group Chats (NIP-29)
• Encrypted Chats (concorde)

We've also setup automated deployment for Google Play Store, the previous TWA app is now replaced by the full packaged mobile app. Update on Zapstore, web app, GitHub releases - waiting for approval on Play Store. iOS update is in the works.

How can you support #Nostria? Spread the word and sign up for Premium! Nostria is built by

.

We're preparing for Nostria 4.0, which has some amazing AI features, much improved text to speech of your feed, articles and profile timelines. There is also a new Social Bookmarking feature.

Go get the latest Nostria app for Android on Zapstore: https://zapstore.dev/apps/app.nostria Includes proper support for music playback that can be controlled from lock screen and runs in the background. #music

Nostria (native) is now available on

!

This means there are two official releases of Nostria on Zapstore and it will continue to be two for a little longer, because they are distinct from each other.

The previous one loads the app from our web server and gets updates automatically, you cannot stop the updates. Additionally it's just a small shell that uses something called TWA, Trusted Web Activities. It means it's more dependent on your browser, it even supports built in translations the browser has, which is important for some of you. This version support browser extension signing on your phone. This version does no longer support local signer, only remote signer protocol (you can still use local Amber, but setup requires more steps).

New app is fully packaged, meaning that all the code to run it, is installed on the local device. It does not automatically install updates by itself, though you can check for updates in Settings/About. New app has native signer support, meaning it's basically a one click button from the login screen and you're ready to use Nostria, it's just as easy as any other Nostr client.

This new app renders the full available screen and there are a few UI bugs related to this that is being fixed. So consider this new app is not as optimized as the other one, even though they are exactly the same code.

Image previews for example, shows on your whole screen, the same with videos. Please give it a go and provide us feedback, we'll continue to update the release with improvements and fixes.

"app.nostria" is the identifier of the new native app, available here: https://zapstore.dev/apps/app.nostria

"app.nostria.twa" is the identifier for the web shell, which is also published to Play Store and iOS Test Flight: https://zapstore.dev/apps/app.nostria.twa

Nostria downloads! #Nostria has previously only been available as an web-app shell (for Windows, Android and iOS), where it always loads the app from the web server.

This has now changed and the web app is embedded into the app itself, and can be installed as a desktop app for all platforms, including Linux and Mac.

Full set of download options: https://www.nostria.app/download

Media Library is now capable of showing encrypted media and files that you have sent in private messages. Instead of seeing generic thumbnails, it allows you to play back video, pictures - and even look at encrypted files, right in the media library. It can also lookup posts where you have used the different files. Do you use #Nostria yet?

Some of you might remember when a certain individual named jack, uploaded a receipt photo that was tens of megabytes? Or when another person uploaded an photo that was many thousands of pixels in size that crashed some Nostr clients?

Compression of photos and videos is very important for the user experience on Nostr, while centralized services can optimize media on their servers, on Nostr this task is large up to the clients. Nostria helps you manage this easily, saving you money by reducing your media library and improving the bandwidth usage on the network as a whole for everyone.

#Nostria

The most used reaction now shows everwhere, is it not lovely how emoji reactions work on Nostria?

The new introduction video on our website:

Join a music listening party on

!

#musicstr #music #social #nostria

Some updates:

• Menu and Media Player is merged on mobiles, swipe left or right to rotate the menu and switch between media controls and menu.

• Media Player in Sidebar: You can now move the media player to the right sidebar on desktop; this is a great way to reduce the UI usage for music playback.

• Save to Gifs Sets: If a chat message or event has an image, you can quickly save it to your gifs sets - including the ability to copy the gif from external providers to your own media servers. Liberating the meme and improving privacy.

• Zap animations and sound effects: Depending on how much you zap someone, the crazier the animation and sound effects are. Reward your tiny reptile brain whenever you give value for value.

• Public chats: New menu option called Chats, which are public chats. Create your own or join existing. Share memes, music, media, audio clips, video clips and messages.

• Audio and Video clips: Instantly record audio or video and send on private messages, group messages and public chats.

• Group messages: You can now create group messages! Now is the time to migrate your friends and family chats from other IM apps onto Nostria!

If you have not started using Nostria yet, then there is no better time than right now to boost your Nost experience to the next level!

https://www.nostria.app/

Just added public chats, I'm sure many of you will love this. Based upon the existing public chats that exists, it doesn't appear that there are any other decent public chats clients yet? #asknostr

In Nostria it's already decent and it will only get better. This was just added, we test in production as always!

Create your own public chats, easy upload of chat image using your media server. Then you can share music, gifs (nostr native gifs) and media, works well across all devices - your phone and your PC. Emojis coming tomorrow.

Did you know #Nostria also does private group chats? It's time to migrate your family and friends chat onto Nostr! Not using Nostria yet? Please give it a try, we're sure you'll love it!

https://www.nostria.app/

Send and receive money on #Nostria with ease, using direct messages. Just don't get your teenagers on Nostria, you'll be flooded with payment requests. Let the #Bitcoin flow!

Use Nostria to send Magic Internet Money 🧙to your friends and family!

We just made it super easy to create your own gifs collections!

Choose your #gifs, upload, set a good description and save! That's it, now everyone can enjoy your #memes!

#Nostria #meme

"We collect sensitive personal data and we share or sell it to third parties." - Giphy

You want to be in control of your own gifs? Now you can, with

!

Who wants gifs?

Anything other than a regular post, should if following the comment NIP, not use kind 1 for comments/replies. Unfortunately, there is still plenty of Nostr apps that uses kind 1 for everything, including articles and polls.

#Nostria will now render a combined view of kind 1 (replies) and kind 1111 (comments). Hopefully everyone will upgrade to follow newer Nostr protocol soon.

have some amazing music and they have been streaming life on Nostr for a long time.

#Nostria has a great streaming experience, the media player integrates support for music, videos, podcasts and more. Been many late nights playing their performances while working on giving you all the best possible social networking experience!

Added ability to set primary wallet, which will be used for quick zaps.

You can also transfer between your wallets, as #Nostria supports multiple NWCs.

There is currently some spam attacks on direct messages on Nostr, some users is receiving messages, each for different account so simply banning is not a good solution, neither is reporting.

Each account is only delivering one message, so you can "Delete" (removes locally) the chats one by one, or you can purge them all from the new Manage Inbox dialog.

Also added Web of Trust filter on the "Others" tab, helping you sort your inbox from non-following profiles.

If someone does not have a rank score yet, that you have already chatted with, they will be included in the "0" rank score and not hidden.

Watch this video to learn how it works:

Join a #zapathon to give #v4vmusic on #Nostr!

Anyone who likes this post, can claim 100 sats on

, with the task of zapping one of the songs on Nostr with the rewards!

Let's show the dedicated musicians on this network that we appreciate them and we want them to continue to create and publish awesome #music for all of us! ❤️

So grab your 100 sats, then give 21 of them forward to your favorite artist. ⚡

You can use #Nostria to do it or any other client that supports music. #musicstr

https://nostria.app/music/tracks?list=all

You won't get rewards for quotes or reposts, but I hope you'll share it anyway to get as many as possible engaged in this zapathon!

The #music experience in #Nostria just got even better!

New songs listing have changed to a list view, added genre sorting, quick buttons for like, share and zap. Keep those zaps (you can setup auto-zapping like shown in the video) going to the amazing artists on Nostr, #v4vmusic #musicstr.

Check the video to see some of the amazing experience you can have with Nostria, on desktop you have more ability to play with the UI and listen to music while you do other cool things on the network.

Be sure to check out great musicians such as

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and

. Let's reach out to more musicians and get them published on Nostr!

Hi music lovers! We got a bunch of improvements for you:

1. Tracks listing on music profiles now sort albums together, sorted by track numbers and release date.

2. Songs on the main music feature are now listed by their released date if available, not by updated date. Make sure your tracks has a "released" date in the metadata, otherwise it will be listed by updated date.

3. Added support for duration on tracks, so go back and edit if your track doesn't have duration yet.

4. Listing of artists didn't load their avatars, unless the profile was already cached, now it loads the avatar correctly.

5. Listening: You can now see what other people on the Nostr network is listening to, at the bottom of Music page.

6. If you open music profile that has no albums, it will automatically show the tracks listing instead, one less click.

7. "public" and "private": If you're making a playlist (album) for yourself, make sure you uncheck the "Public Album" toggle, then it won't be listed in the public realm of album releases. While you are preparing to publish your new album, you can keep it private while editing, and then change to public when it's ready!

8. There are some older music events on the Nostr network that was different than the new protocol, added a backwards compatibility for those so they will play correctly now. Unfortunately some of the artists didn't use Blossom server but external hosting and those tracks are gone, not playable anymore.

Thanks to

.

and

for feedback and suggestions! Keep them coming!

You want to support the continued development of Nostria? Consider becoming a Premium subscriber: https://nostria.app/premium

Want to see something cool? When you use #Nostria and play music, your status updates (NIP-38) with the song track you're listening to. This has been visible on the top of your profile for a while, you can also set a custom status text if you want.

But now, on Music, you'll see what everyone else is listening to! Great way to discover new music! Let's hope the other Music apps on Nostr implements this, it's part of the protocol.

Here is how quick and easy it is to clean up your relays and find new ones to use, using #Nostria.

Dead relays is a serious issue on Nostr. It results in users losing their data, especially when there are few migration tools and clients doesn't automatically re-publish when changing relays.

If you login to #Nostria now with a known dead relay, you'll get this notification at the bottom of the app:

On the Account Relays there is also a very clear indicator if you're using a dead relay. I found

has a few of them... maybe time to update?

Next quest is how do you find relays? That is coming very soon!

Adding this to #asknostr if anyone wonder how to clean up their #nostr relays.

"The client that is going to bring the non tech people to Nostr, is @Nostria and it will be glorious." 💜🔥🚀

Here is a hot tip for you all. Nostria has local search, so if you want to find back to an event you remember, you can open search, choose "Local Database Only" and then you will find what you are looking for.

I was looking for this post by

but couldn't quickly find in the feed (15 hours ago he posted), but with the search, I found it quickly.

There is unfortunately a lot of users who have dead relays in their relay lists. Nostria has added filter for these in the app to avoid exhausting resources connecting to these. We also made a dedicated monitoring service that will monitor if they come back and to verify we don't add valid relays to the filter.

Please take a minute to check your relay list, it will help everyone on the network if you keep an up-to-date list of relays.

Check the monitor status here:

https://monitor.nostria.app/

#nostria

Upgraded the Nostria Discovery Relay for Europe. It was a bit under powered and had some downtime. We're ranking up expenses on service infrastructure...

At the same time, we're building a "dead-relay" monitoring service and adding filter in Nostria app to avoid connecting to relays that are no longer available. This should reduce resource consumption on your devices and improve performance and reliability on finding events.

Content research and content creation is amazing on Nostria! You can save content you discover using bookmark lists, then you can easily add everything from your bookmarks into the article you're writing.

Today we also added import of articles from zip files. You need an unsigned event file and you can include photos and videos in the zip file, it will automatically upload and link to the uploaded media correctly.

Check out this awesome screen recording that shows how we published an article today.

Learn about the latest news in the world of Nostr apps and protocol. This newsletter and podcast is your best place to be informed.

The "For You" on Nostria is using a combination of source, one of them is a Follow Set ("Starter Pack"). We want to improve the For You and looking for some great profiles to add. We'd like to have accounts that create wholesome content, focus on real life, with photographs and perhaps videos.

Got any suggestions? Share them below!

Check out the latest updates to Nostria! Nostria is about seeing your friends again, social without the noise.

While the other centralized social media platforms keep pushing ads and unknown profiles on you, Nostr and Nostria keeps the content and conversations more social and you're able to see the content from your friends again.

We'll publish more articles showing additional updates not mentioned here, including a much improved article editor.

#nostria

After you activate Web of Trust (Settings), you can filter out all those pesky spam notifications in #Nostria.

Did you know you can search your notifications? Very useful to find back to something that happened earlier.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Nostria Signer!

We've built a browser extension for Nostr signing, works across all Nostr apps on desktop.

It supports importing both recovery phrase accounts and private key imports. You can have multiple vaults with multiple keys.

Can be installed in all Chromium based browsers, such as Chrome, Brave and Edge. On Edge, it support the new side panel mode, helping you avoid the annoying popups and can approve signing directly in the tab.

Get it here:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nostria-signer/jegfoliikjonihpbdlkpgkamcmpnfpoi

Recorded a video that shows how you can utilize

to clean up your feed. Hopefully this will be useful for someone, as I've noticed a few posts recently that people are getting a bit fed up with their feeds and content on Nostr.

Nostr has a lot of awesome content, the problem is not lack of content, it's lack of discovery.

Getting tired of only chronological and global trending feed with the same profiles every day?

We heard you and here is our response!

Some people are getting tired of Nostr, and we get it. If you don't manage your feeds, you'll end up not in control. Instead the feed controls you. This is not what Nostr, and especially not Nostria, is about.

Spend 10 minutes watch (on 2x speed) our video on how to clean up your Nostr feed using Nostria. Nostria has some amazing features that empowers you to manage your content the way you want it, and innovative ways to discover new content.

#asknostr #grownostr #nostria

What content should we produce to help promote Nostria?

• Short form videos that shows off individual features?
• Screenshots?
• Articles that explains different features?
• Post more notes with small updates?
• Make a very long video that explains every single feature?

Planning on doing a long video that demonstrates everything, as it takes time to produce any of this content and that time distracts from building, but it's a balance - without users, why build anything at all?

Nostria strive towards perfection, for elegance and smoothness. To be a trustworthy app and experience that just works, that doesn't fail randomly. At the same time, delivering a massive amount of features, so you don't need context switching between a bunch of vibe-coded apps.

While there is a lot of great smaller Nostr apps, there is a cost-benefit of adopting these. Any smaller and focused app might not get the attention and care as larger apps, as there is smaller user base.

The focus on this post though is to get some feedback on how we can grow the awareness of Nostria, so any suggestions? #asknostr #nostria

Hey everyone! We hope you all are enjoying Nostria and we want to ask you all to help spread the word!

But most importantly, we want to know what features are not working the way you expect them to, what do you want changed? What is the feedback you've received from others regarding Nostria?

We want to increase the adoption of Nostr as a social network, we're building Nostria to help with that. Please share any and all suggestions and we'll consider them all.

For example, is there too many features available for first time users? Should we dramatically reduce features and instead have a button to "Go to level 2"? Like your profile starts at Level 1, and you start a journey to unlock new features, to avoid overwhelming anyone that is new here? (of course not "lock" them down, just make it a smoother transition, where a user can jump to level "5" whenever they want).

What features should be removed?

You might have noticed the right side pane? If you favorite someone, it starts showing your favorites. That's not the only thing it's there for. Something is coming very soon that we hope you'll like.

Get ready for a refined article editing experience on Nostria! Split pane allowing you to view preview while editing on larger screens. The preview has been unified and is very similar to editing. The toolbar can be dismissed for more focus on the content. Media can be picked from our library, easy to use your existing photos and videos.

What are you going to write with #Nostria?

Here is a tip: Toggle the "Unread only" in Notifications so you can focus on going through all your notifications.

Other recent updated:

• Updating all app stores: App Store, Play Store, Microsoft Store. Awaiting approval for App Store.
• Improved loading of new follower notifications. Improved loading of new notifications when scrolling.
• Fixes issues with notification descriptions.
• Added support for screenshot saving, article download and printing in Share dialog.
• Improved the share dialog - including adding support for repost and quote for articles.
• Added support for NIP-70: Protected Events.
• Fixed indentation for threads.
• Implemented loading of NIP-05 other than on profile, to be used in threads.
• Added a metric debug tool.
• Added more information to the profile details page, including showing reports and mutes.
• Added "Cached" option for People, allowing you to see all locally cached profiles. This is very useful in combination with Web of Trust score to find new profiles. You can filter out following from the cached, allowing you to only see non-followers.
• All Web of Trust values is available in the details page, including followers count. Nostria has stated that it will never list followers, but what do people want? Yes or No?
• Improved the text input for Messages, had a little "jumpyness" to it.
• Adds a spam warning so users don't react or comment on events that has many tagged users.
• Made the spam notification filter default 100 tagged users. This only applies to new users, search for "spam" in settings to configure it yourself.
• Implemented support for 10086, indexer (discovery) relay list. This means the Discovery Relays configuration is now synced across devices.
• Implemented support for Personalized Web Of Trust. Go find the "Trust" section in Settings, click the service provider and complete the setup. This currently requires a browser extension to signup, cannot be done with nsec or remote signer. Regarding browser signer extension, we got some exciting news for you very soon!
• Profile hover cards only opens on avatar, not the name.
• Favorites hover card now has rich formatting, including rendering of users, images and more.
• Improved the event toolbar layout, this took a lot of work to tune and get right. Hope you all are enjoying this!
• Swipe to left on image dialog now closes instead of navigating away.
• Mobile optimized user profile and more.
• Emoji picker for chat messages and note editor.
• Media picker for chat messages, either browser your existing media or upload new.
• Personalized Trending - This is just early preview, it's a way to view all locally cached events by their popularity in terms of comments, reposts, likes and zaps. The initial experience with this is amazing, it serves me the most popular content from my own social network and beyond.

That's some of the recent updates, but not nearly all of them. If you have not tried the sharing experience yet, you should try it out. It's so quick and smooth to share anything funny or interesting in a direct message.

We're only getting started...

To help everyone avoid reacting to spam content on Nostr, which can cause a lot of unwanted side-effects, Nostria is now showing warning and require manual activation of the actions so you won't interact with these events unintentionally.

All day and night Nostria keeps improving! Gave some love to the favorites card, adding rich formatting and loading from cache.

This is a desktop feature and it helps you see what your favorites is up to, with zero clicks.

#nostria

Personalized Web of Trust has arrived in Nostria! Check the Trust section in settings, from there you can go to Brainstorm and activate the generation of your personalized Web of Trust. This will take a while to compute, so you have to wait a bit after activation.

Currently it only support signing with extension, hopefully we'll get an fully integrated solution directly from Nostria.

#nostria

Check out the fresh new UI for posts! A little hidden secret, you can long press or right click on the bookmark button on the right to toggle between icons, icons and labels or labels. Original posts and replies can be different if you like.

Sharing is caring, and sharing experience on Nostria is unlike any other. Quickly share with your friends in direct messages, or across other social media.

More improvements is coming to #Nostria 3.0, there is hundreds of new improvements updated right now, and we're only getting started!

We're so grateful for all the amazing feedback from everyone trying out Nostria! We're here for you all, so if you have any issues or suggestions, let us know and we'll get it improved. Lots of hard work have gone into building Nostria, it's the final polishing everywhere that makes a big difference in user experience. Enjoy!

recently added

to the app selection, but Nostria had an issue that made it fail to load... But not anymore! We just fixed Nostria so it works smooth in Keychat! Go try it out! (If you tried it before, just open it... wait a few seconds, go back, and open again. That will update the app to latest version, which works)

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