Excited to share what I have been working on and completely obsessing over. nowhere An entire website encoded in a URL. Hosted nowhere. Present everywhere. https://hostednowhere.com/

I see. It’s more that it is possible to create a forum in such a way that no one can post.

I have not done much testing with it but someone said they have used the Keychat browser with success.

What exactly is not working as expected?

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Nostr relays are public. Your posts on a Nowhere forum are not.

I did my best to make everything as private as possible. Each forum event is wrapped in multiple layers of encryption and signatures. I made a tool to monitor my test relay to see what the events looked like and try to make sure as much metadata was hidden as possible. You can try it out at the link below. You can either point it to your own local relay or any public relay to monitor, inspect and filter all the events. You can also find it on my github. https://relayspy.5t34k.com/

Great book on the topic if you are interested: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3770306-against-intellectual-monopoly

I am certainly open to it but not any time soon. It was already a lot creating 8 websites in 1 and a lot to maintain. Once everything I have now is robust and I have squashed most of the bugs I will consider it.

Next time you use the PWA with a connection it will update in the background.

Oh weird. If you sign out of the ephemeral key it will let you sign in with extension 🚨bug detected 🐞🐜😂

I have released the Nowhere forum avatars as a standalone repo. Add fun faces to your app deterministly created from each users npub or any text string. Play with the live demo here https://avatars.5t34k.com and find the code at https://github.com/5t34k/nowhere-avatars .

That’s great to hear. It was so frustrating to me that the copy and paste was so unreliable! Glad it has worked for you.

I have created a simple demonstration site to show how the fragments store you site data in a way that is easy to see and understand. The demo let's you create a simple link with text in the URL fragment however unlike with a real nowhere link this one is not compressed at all so you can clearly see your text in the final URL. https://fragment.hostednowhere.com/#hello%20world

Glad you got it working in the end. That warning about sizing might not be as needed now and I could make it work at any size. It was just there for migrating from an older setup where the settings and the alerts window were both pointing to the same url. You can send test zaps in the settings and it’s also possible to listen and display alerts for all zaps on the nostr network as a way of testing everything is working. Also fun to just have every zap alerted and read out. Lots of options to play around with. If you get stuck let me know and I will be happy to help get it running smoothly.

Let me know if you test it out. There is a video guide to help with setup. I am excited to see some streams use it.

Nowhere just reached the next level of censorship resistance. The nowhere site builder and renderer is now live as an nsite. You can even install as a PWA directly off the nsite. All of my domains can go down or be taken offline but your nowhere sites will always live as long as nowhere remains on nostr. Nowhere sites - hosted nowhere. Nowhere renderer - distributed across blossom servers. https://.nsite.run/