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Lightning Network invoices in Nostr's astral.ninja client look fantastic!
7322 sats \ 26 comments \ @ama 25 Dec 2022 nostr
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42 sats \ 5 replies \ @brugeman 26 Dec 2022
Astral is indeed one of usable full-featured web clients, I use it regularly. I wouldn't call it smooth yet. Many crashes, stalls, errors in console.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
It's kinda smooth at times, and then it stalls for a little while, throws some errors, you reload the page and, when you're lucky it's smooth again. Isn't it fun?
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @brugeman 26 Dec 2022
I get annoyed when it loads too slow. Other times it's fun :)
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
It's part of the ride when you're one of the first ridding it. :-D
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @brugeman 26 Dec 2022
I actually haven't ever been the first to ride a new cool but buggy tech, so yeah, this feels unusual
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
Enjoy the feeling!
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
What we are witnessing on Nostr this hours is a glance from the future, where people will send value through layers 2 and 3, without even ever interacting directly with the layer 1. I'm so excited.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Louferlou 26 Dec 2022
Agree but interacting with the layer 1 is still amazing as it is by far the most permissionless layer. People with sovereignty concerns (which is the main issue Bitcoin try to solve) will always have to stay close to what happens on layer 1 and how to use it
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
Of course it is, I fully agree with you on that. But in the future, layer 1 will be just the base layer for the full economy and the place to store non significant sums of money, so I believe the average person won't (and won't need to) interact with it for the most part. Many won't even know about it, let alone understand it, as today most don't understand how fiat really works.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
It's getting crazy the amount of invoices getting posted and getting paid (!) in nostr. Some after wining quizzes or other little competitions, some for testing purposes, and some just for fun. If you haven't joined yet, do it just for the fun of sending out invoices that get paid by unknown people or to pay some from unknown beggars. Let's stress test the thing out even more!
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @nout 26 Dec 2022
Hm, my experience with astral.ninja is quite bad. It's super laggy, it freezes Chrome, it even crashed a tab on me.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
According to some developers' conversation, there seems to be some trouble with DNS, which might be causing some of the lagging you're experiencing. They're investigating it further to pinpoint the actual cause and try to solve it. Let's hope they succeed promptly...
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
It's a bit too resource hungry, yes. Reload that tab every now and then and that problem goes away. Also, it's rapidly improving also in that respect.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @nout 26 Dec 2022
I appreciate the improvements! To provide more details here's my experience:
Console is full of errors (mostly CORS for images, but also JS issues):
chunk-common.f275f715.js:1 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'latest_created_at')
    at chunk-common.f275f715.js:1:3357
    at Proxy.reduce (<anonymous>)
    at o (chunk-common.f275f715.js:1:3326)
    at n (chunk-common.f275f715.js:1:3965)
    at Proxy.processEvent (about.aa632906.js:1:4936)
    at about.aa632906.js:1:4089
Access to image at 'https://cdn.jb55.com/img/red-me.jpg' from origin 'https://astral.ninja' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.
red-me.jpg:1          Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED
If I navigate to jack's profile and click on "FOLLOWS", it never loads.
I have multiple people that I follow. The app never loads their names or pictures.
When I refresh the page, all my "follows" disappear (for at least a minute - I stopped waiting)
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
When was that? As I said, it's rapidly improving in performance. I also have the thing with names and pictures not loading at times, which is good, because there are so many notes published that it's loading first, and ignores the superfluous names and pictures of follows. You can force their download, though, by clicking on them.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 26 Dec 2022
This is happening to me right now as we speak (I copied the console errors right when I was replying to you)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
We are whitnessing the birth of Nostr. :-) And the moves of Jack and the ego-maniacal are conducing to a stress test of the whole system, its protocol, the relays, and the clients. Perhaps report it to astral's maintainer to help him improve it?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @blockguard 25 Dec 2022
Yes. Tried it. It just works.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama OP 26 Dec 2022
Excellent! Thank you for letting us know.
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @takaponka 25 Dec 2022
You have to use Alby or are there other ways ? Could it be possible that in the future we just copy paste an invoice and get same result ?
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama OP 25 Dec 2022
By the way, the 1 sat invoice I published originally already got paid. I'm 1 sat richer, yay!
Let see if the same happens with the new one, for 1000 sats that were set automatically by the other wallet, since I left the amount field empty to find out if I could place an invoice without a fixed amount for the payer to chose...
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5 sats \ 4 replies \ @ama OP 25 Dec 2022
In the present, just copy-pasting an invoice from any LN wallet (forget about Muun, of course, which isn't one) gets the exact same result. How do you know I've use Alby for that particular invoice?
https://nostr.build/i/wos.png
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @takaponka 25 Dec 2022
I am very smart 🤗 Joking I had no idea just lucky, I tried with breez and Zeus, and didn't work because too many characters I am missing something obvious. You just copy paste the invoice in a post, or include in URL ?
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @ama OP 25 Dec 2022
Are you using astral.ninja? In nostr, events are of different types, some of them are notes, which can be either short (280 characters or less) or long (not sure if they are limited. In astral.ninja, while you are typing, you get the number of character left, when they are 25 or less, inside a little orange circle under the note. Once you reach more than 280 chars, the excess number appears in red, and a little "button" appears beside it to switch between a "short" and a "long" note. A LN invoice is a little longer than 280 characters, so you need to turn the switch to "long". Hope it helps. Let me know if you won't success and I'll take some screenshots for you.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @takaponka 25 Dec 2022
Thank you much will try that tomorrow should work !
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama OP 25 Dec 2022
NP. Let me know how it goes!
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