Yeah, I think it just needs to be done in the right environment, I suppose a test environment. New accounts could even be used, but unfortunately using your main and daily accounts how you would normally would provide the most accurate insight to developers, what works and what isn't. It is something we are thinking about too. Most importantly, I think the communication and transparency to the community is one of the most important factors, but I think we also have a lot of people here who really just love testing apps and may not be developers, but would love to contribute in some way. I personally would love to setup A/B Testing for user experiences and it would be fun to actively gather information consensually on what people actually want vs couldn't care less for. I think UX studies can be done this way through testing, feedback forms, etc. though I know in general it's kind of the old, traditional way of doing UX testing and feedback and probably more optimized workflows, but the principle is the same > people can choose to sign up and basically test features (new and old) and leave notes/comments throughout the exp. If we had additional grants/financial support, we could even have it payout in sats per completion, which I still would argue against. It is better to get genuine feedback from people who have no financial incentive to distort their actual, honest UX. Love to hear your thoughts too, Jeff. Maybe something we could collaborate on. The room for UX improvement at this point is common knowledge, not just to users on Nostr, but sadly to many people on the outside who just tried it once and said... nope.

My favorite Group Chat avatar on Vector is the Vectorized Marmot. GIF Avatars look so good.

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New design concept for Something about the merging of worlds between physical and digital makes the virtual experience so much more immersive and engaging. The idea is to be able to allow people to download and have an image they can share on other platforms or elsewhere on the web, as well as their digital profile on http://vectorapp.io. In the future, we will likely allow for further customization so people can make their profile "ticket stubs" exactly how they want—like if you were to purchase physical tickets, you are given templates, can changes colors, text, etc.

Basic Error Logging Guide for Devs. Thank you, The Rest of the World

lowkey banger.

Not that most of you here are probably Meta users (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp largely), but they have announced that on May 8, 2026 your private messages will no longer be encrypted. Additionally, your messages will be easier to read and scrape to train their AI for you can assume the worst purposes people can imagine. More so sharing for those who don't know and also people you care about. Strongly recommend to everyone to start pivoting from these apps and getting friends, family, co-workers, etc. introduced to Nostr and other methods where their metadata is encrypted and more secure. I would also go ahead and delete all of your messages (request a backup first, may take 1-5 days to hear back) get your data to save and then delete your messages and eventually account. There is a trick you can swap to a business account and mass delete messages faster (15 a time instead of 1). Either way, there are no guarantees your data is wiped from their servers as is (safer to assume it is not), but there's no need to keep it there and make their lives any easier.

Sharing this from X, Dystopia keeps arriving folks. Oppo (Chinese Phone Company), yes the name is literally a phonetic knockoff of how "Apple" would be said in Chinese, but that's another story. Apparently, they have implemented intrusive ads inside of their own File Manager on their phones. Incredibly out of place visually and horrendous looking. If you are going to violate people in such a way, at least make it pleasant on the eyes lol. Insane times we live in to even witness ads inside of a file manager, but that is the direction the world is headed. Never a better time than yesterday to start making software without ads. Together we will make this the standard it should've always been.

it hurts so good 😢

Largely unavoidable. Same goes for "content creators" literally using AI generated videos then another device capturing the video to make it look like they're live streaming. I think it's more about acceptance and if we want to do anything about it to help distinguish then potentially adding tags like "AI" with a bot icon or just simply block. User customization for content filtering could probably use a lot of optimization. At the end of the day, it really should be up to the person to customize what they want to see and engage with, rather than trying to stop the inevitable imho.

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Why has AI robbed us writers of such a great grammatical tool to combine 2 completely different topics or thoughts into one? 😢 this was my writing style before AI was even invented, but I noticed that AI puts spaces before and after the em dash, where I don't use any