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685 sats \ 8 replies \ @antic 31 Jan \ on: WTF Happened Before 1971? bitcoin

Turns out it’s really hard to fund a forever war with real money.

375 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 31 Jan

this exactly, and it was Vietnam that exposed this first, leading to 1971

ahhh ok, so perhaps American expenditures in Vietnam were enough to draw attention from European countries holding gold in America, with Vietnam acting as a catalyst for the collapse of an already unsustainable system?

490 sats \ 5 replies \ @ch0k1 31 Jan

Exactly 💯

Btw @kr, can I use this thread as an opportunity to ask you as one of the listed contributors in the footer 👇

Do you guys plan to develop a native mobile application for SN since it'll be really useful if we could take all the advantages it would provide mobile users such as - push notifications, better UI for easier everyday communication, pushing wider adoption and gaining more traffic because of being more accessible etc.?

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @kr OP 31 Jan

it’s been discussed before, but definitely not an immediate priority - SN already has a PWA option for mobile stackers

385 sats \ 3 replies \ @ch0k1 31 Jan

If you refer to browsers' "add to the home screen" feature - yeah that's how I'm currently using SN but native app would give much better UX on mobile and most importantly this approach of having low-level OS access will open the door for developing so many new functionalities 💭

16 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 1 Feb

for developing so many new functionalities

For example? Push notifications and image upload work fine from the PWA.

I don't know what else we could need.

would give much better UX

It would help if you can tell how the current UX is lacking.

Dealing with official app stores and maintaining a completely different code base is not something we want to do at our size without clear benefits.

However, there are unofficial ones native app. @felipe is developing one here and there used to be Bsats which is no longer maintained

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @felipe 1 Feb

Hey @ekzyis! Thanks for reminding me that the app exists, hahah!

However, there are unofficial ones native app. @felipe is developing one

It's been a while since I last updated it so it's probably broken. Also, I removed it from the Google Play Store because people where actually using it and I didn't have the time to maintain it.

Maybe someday in the near future I try to make it work properly again and implement that new territory thing there.

49 sats \ 0 replies \ @felipe 1 Feb

Dealing with official app stores and maintaining a completely different code base is not something we want to do at our size without clear benefits

There's no need to deal with official app stores to have a native app. It's possible to distribute directly from Github, Gitlab, publish on F-droid and etc. Off course I'm talking about Android here.

Apple devices are completely different. Actyally, I don't even know how people here still use Apple devices with all the client-side scanning Apple has been doing the past years (client-side scanning = zero privacy).