SN release: hash emails, detail on nym hover, CLN over tor, bottom nav, and more \ stacker news ~meta

SN release: hash emails, detail on nym hover, CLN over tor, bottom nav, and more

5007 sats \ 40 comments \ @k00b 6 May meta

we no longer store email addresses for login in plaintext (via @WeAreAllSatoshi)
- we hash them with salt
- this has been applied retroactively
- note: we still opt-in people into the email newsletter, which is not associated with your account, but we'll be changing that soon
if you hover over a stacker's nym, it now shows a little popover (via @felipe)
CLN withdrawals should work over Tor now (via @ek)
image uploads no longer pre-populate alt text with the local file name (via @itsrealfake2)
wallet logs can be cleared from localstorage (via @ek)
sending wallet attachments are scoped to an account in localstorage (via @ek)
posts with long single-word titles now break (via @BenAllenG)

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142 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 6 May

I'm not sure if this was intentional, but the reward estimates for non-hidden stackers are no longer displaying.

https://m.stacker.news/29747

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

Oh weird. I'll look into it.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

fixed

164 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 6 May

if you hover over a stacker's nym, it now shows a little popover (via @felipe)

I love small quality of life changes that I didn't even realize I needed until I see them in action.

266 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 6 May

The nym pop over is really cool.

331 sats \ 4 replies \ @elvismercury 6 May

I love it too; but I wish the "Stacking since" was in a more intuitive metric. Block height is thematic of course, but it means nothing to me to anchor my perception of time, and I don't think it ever will.

8 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 6 May

To know what item # people joined is pretty cool but yeah it doesn't really give you any sense of actual time.

1028 sats \ 2 replies \ @felipe 6 May freebie

@grayruby @elvismercury I'm working on a popover for items too

Something like this:

https://m.stacker.news/29783

It's going to work on every #itemid link, including the stacking since inside the user popover

What do you think about it?

Disclaimer: I didn't show it to @k00b yet so I don't know if he's going to approve it

186 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 6 May

Cool!

It's fun to think of all the ways that rich context like this could be brought to bear. Imagine a popup that gave the three items most like this one; or the most recent few items from that particular user, etc.

28 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

Yeah I dig it.

52 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 6 May

awesome! I'm a fan of the hover detail @felipe

69 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 May

image uploads no longer pre-populate alt text with the local file name (via @itsrealfake2)

Very good, this is a good privacy enhancing feature

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 May

Oh did the mobile nav bar change too? Profile is in the right now

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 7 May

the popover is fucking great

10 sats \ 6 replies \ @kepford 6 May

Here's an idea. Every web site should hash not only passwords but also email addresses....

This seems like an obvious move with our daily reports of data breaches. The best way to secure data is to not have it. The second best is to hash it.

105 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

I know. I had been thinking about doing this since the beginning of SN. There's really no reason not to other than not being able to contact people non-transactionally.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 6 May

I should have added the tradeoffs. Honestly, it hadn't occurred to me before reading your post...

But it seems obvious now. Many of us use junk email addresses or email aliasing services but man if this became more standardized as a practice it could do a LOT of info security of the masses.

I haven't thought through the tradeoffs but one that jumps to mind are email marketing services.

225 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

The biggest downside for customers is not getting important updates/info because the site has no way of contacting you out of band.

The biggest downside for companies is the above + marketing.

I ran into this with https://gitern.com/ ... we used ssh pubkeys for login so I couldn't contact the customers! It sucked when I wanted to get feedback ... but it was also part of the appeal.

334 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 6 May

If there were only a pub key encrypted form of communication we could use to replace email comms.

I know Nostr isn't ready to fill this role but email really is a weakness in this whole digital world we've created.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 6 May

I'd love to hear people smarter than me talk about the tradeoffs of using public key encryption as a replacement for email. But I wonder if we end up in the same spot with a pile of pubkeys instead of email addresses...

55 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

With something like nostr, native contact lists might make it a little more manageable relative to email. With email there’s also the assumption that it’s a private inbox, which you can’t assume with nostr because you blast your pubkey everywhere.

246 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 6 May

Oh the bottom nav changes are just reordering the 'buttons'. Three people independently told me they were in an unintuitive order and I found myself still hesitating every time I used bottom nav even after a few weeks of use.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 May

Just when I got used to it! Lol

12 sats \ 0 replies \ @_error 6 May

hover over a stacker's nym, it now shows a little popover

I love that it works even for my nym (@_error) 😜

8 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 6 May

good job! keep building.

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/3cRFPWkig7GPVitnxgYVL8ssx5QJbTQGagoOufgoOG0/rs:fit:1920:1080/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy80Mzk0

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 6 May

bottom nav threw me off for a bit. LOL

21 sats \ 6 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 6 May

Images aren't opening with these links anymore? I sometimes copy them to reuse later, but it seems they're no longer working.

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/fKS7f-xT07HJKRb97BzunOjNsVY0N2El2dc2pIJoH70/rs:fit:1920:1080/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8yODczNQ

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/fKS7f-xT07HJKRb97BzunOjNsVY0N2El2dc2pIJoH70/rs:fit:1920:1080/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8yODczNQ

This works correctly with these links.

https://m.stacker.news/28735

https://m.stacker.news/28735

32 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

They work, but not on preview for some reason. This has been broken for awhile now.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 6 May

Oh, I see! It seems it doesn't work only in the preview. It should have appeared in my previous comment. Check out this image.

https://m.stacker.news/29750

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 6 May

Mhh, for me, both images show up (preview or as a reply)

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/fKS7f-xT07HJKRb97BzunOjNsVY0N2El2dc2pIJoH70/rs:fit:1920:1080/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8yODczNQ

https://m.stacker.news/28735

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

I deployed a fix :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

You're right

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

fixed

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Tef 6 May

Great job from all the contributors! Love the improvements!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @AGORA 7 May

That's great! Loving the hover effect. It will be nice to also see if the user has any other public profile available (i.e. nostr or github or if is a dev contributor) with the relative icon near the username/cowbow.

For felipe could be like this

https://m.stacker.news/29908

Oh another thing! I'm glad that autowitdraw nodes using CLN can now connect via TOR. Any plan to enable the same feature for LND nodes? I'm getting an error when trying

33s	[lnd]	ERROR	could not connect to LND: No connection established. Last error: undefined
33s	[lnd]	ERROR	failed to attach wallet

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 7 May

LND nodes should work over Tor but there might be a bug. I'll create a ticket.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @yoshi 7 May

glorious stuff

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 6 May

In the bottom nav, SN in the middle was better. I mean design wise and also for the uses.

What made you change it? Previous one was better.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 6 May

People said it was confusing because all other websites put it to the left. We can always change it back. Let's live with it for a bit.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 6 May

Great job freaks!