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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?
PayPal is a hotbed of fraud. I’ve never used HodlHodl but I once had a client claw back funds on a freelance job after paying me with PayPal and I’ll never use it again.
Our operations staff has been running the numbers and streamlined the menu. It wasn’t one of our best sellers. We’ve been getting creative and offering more specials. If there’s enough demand we could bring it back as a limited-time offer, kind of like the McRib.
We’ll be open at our normal time of 1 PM on Saturday 4/20 with some half-priced bitcoin-only specials starting at 4:20 PM.
Feel free to camp out on the sidewalk in front of the bar. Some people do that all the time.
Short answer is this is always top of mind as a business, especially one with a kitchen and bar, and that’s before you even think about the bitcoin stuff.
Need Thomas to take this one in more depth, but he just left to catch a flight so he might not see this for a while.
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.