Damus Q3/Q4 OpenSats Report

Hey guys!

Here’s our Q3-Q4 report. There was some confusion with the timing of the previous quarters so we’ve accumulated everything since the Q2 report (March 2nd, 2024) into this one. Enjoy!

Damus OpenSats Q3-Q4 Progress Report

The third and fourth quarter of the initial Damus OpenSats grant encompasses work done across many of the active projects being worked on at Damus HQ. Here’s a quick overview of the progress made across the organization:

nostrdb

Added

Author query support (William Casarin)
REQ support: ndb_subscribe (William Casarin)
CLOSE support: ndb_unsubscibe (William Casarin)
Profile flatbuffer dump utility (William Casarin)
Ability to register a subscription callback instead of just polling (William Casarin)

Changed

Dump json in filter and fulltext queries in cli tool (William Casarin)

Stats

name                             added  removed  commits
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>  +665   -739     16

nostrdb-rust

Added

Note builder interface (William Casarin)
Nip10 implementation (William Casarin)
Getting profile by key (William Casarin)
Note tag support (William Casarin)
Tag::into_iter method (Yuki Kishimoto)
FilterBuilder::until method (Yuki Kishimoto)
Export structs from tags module (Yuki Kishimoto)

Fixed

FilterBuilder::limit method (Yuki Kishimoto)
Note::sig method (Yuki Kishimoto)

Stats

Yuki Kishimoto <yukikishimoto@protonmail.com>  +20    -4       5
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>                +1551  -867     32

Damus NoteDeck/Android

This project is in heavy development and doesn’t have clean changelogs yet, so here are all of the git logs from this period

Willam’s updates

account_manager: don’t add the same pubkey more than once
actionbar placeholder
actionbar: remove border on reply button, add expand animation
actionbar: support both dark and light buttons
Add forward navigation animation
add hover to profile map demo
add –light lightmode flag to previews and notedeck
add my pubkey to the timeline query for testing
add test queries for elsat
add vertical separators between timelines
allow missing profiles in account switcher
allow multiple invocations of –sec
always have some default timeline
app: make ndb public
a quick note about the View trait
args: allow filter files and raw filters on cli
bump timeline filter limit
cap size of remote filter limits
change selection color to purple
check: remove duplicate and disable wasm checks
ci: disable wasm builds for now
cli: add –sec argument to quickly add an account
clippy postbox cleanups
crates: add bitflags
damus: make relay pool public
darker quote reposts for mobile
debug: add some debug logs for keyboard note selection
deps: using tracing instead of log
direnv: disable nix direnv on darwin
direnv: make args explicit so its easy to change
don’t bump timeline when adding notes
dont since-optimize when we don’t have enough notes
don’t use an actual keystorage in Damus test apps
drafts: clear post after posting
enable nip10 replies
enostr: rename Event to Note
env: allow private things like secret keys
filter: add default limit
filters: fix hashtag filters
filter: unify nostrdb and remote limits
Fix all warnings
fixed_window: fix clippy warning
fix global query
fix inline note preview colors
fix light borders for quote reposts
fix postbox design
fix scroll area shrinking
fix some clippy warnings
fix until filters
fix warnings
fonts: always use base fonts for all families
fun large profile grid preview
get all missing ids from all timelines
github: remove pages workflow
gitignore: add perf files
hide navigation title on global nav
ids: find more unknown ids from inline notes
images: add aspect_fill
initial inline note previews
initial navigation
initial note posting
initial postbox for testing
initial post box view
initial post reply view
initial refactor in preparation for routing
input: fix deadlock on resize
input: handle raw events
input: process input once
input: switch to scanning over raw input events
integrate sidebar into main view
introduce View and Previews traits
irc mode
ircmode: tighten username
keys: actually use the keystore
lighter gray for inline previews in white mode
list: switch from arc mutext to rc refcell
load timelines from commandline
log: reduce spammy new note log
log relay subscriptions
make notedeck front and center
mobile: add lots of top padding on mobile
mobile: a tad more padding at the top
mobile: black panel bg color
mobile: don’t add hover on mobile
mobile: make mobile flag runtime-configurable
mobile: simplify is_mobile
mobile: use my timeline for testing again
move account_login_view to ui submodule
move add_space to its correct location
nip10: fetch unknown replied-to notes
nip10: show initial reply information on notes
nix: add openssl dep for reqwest
nix: make android emulator optional
nostrdb: bump to support timeline queries
note: don’t allow nested note previews
note: support nprofile mentions
perf: don’t clone bytes via a more specialized function
perf: fix continuous repaint
perf: profiling note content rendering
popup: increase fixed window margin
popup: simplify borrow
postbox: add focused state
postbox: add focus shadow from figma
post: full available width
postview: add vertical scroll
previews: remove central panel frame
profile: add about and username to profile previews
profiles: introduce DisplayNames
profiling: update puffin version
queries: add a few more test queries
queries: set reasonable initial query sizes
queries: update hashtags query
readme: add usage
readme: document previews
readme: make it clear that its for desktop
readme: make it clear that nix is optional for non-android dev
readme: show notedeck preview
refactor: move fixed_window to ui
refactor: move note into its own widget
refactor: rename widgets to ui
refactor: use map instead of explicit if let
remote: use default_remote_limit instead of hardcoding
remove context from DesktopSidePanel
remove minimum window size
remove useless struct
render_pfp: only depend on imgcache
reset virtual list if notes are spliced into timeline
set tooltip delay to 100ms
side_panel: return more detailed side panel responses
simplify is_mobile check
simplify tab underline calculation
since filter optimization
slightly larger pfpfs
small inline preview pfps
style: initial logic for mobile style
style: less bubbly
style: realtime hover interactions
style: set 0 duration tooltip delay
Switch to egui master to fix wgpu issues
switch to glow for now
switch to rustls-tls-native-roots
tabs: select notes & replies by default
test: add test timeline query
test: update test profile with a banner
test: use my timeline query by default for testing
textmode: adjust name sizing so it doesn’t bump the column
textmode: fix coloring of abbreviated names
textmode: no previews in textmore for now
theme: update to correct colors based on figma design
timeline: don’t hide on resize
timeline: refactor tabs into TimelineView
timeline: use strips instead of panels
ui: add banners to profile previews
ui: add feathering-resistant hline separator fn
ui: add frame around note previews
ui: add initial Profile hover previews
ui: add profile picture hover animation
ui: integrate egui-tabs for notes & replies selector
ui: introduce profile picture widget
ui: make pixel sizes correct, use more of the figma
ui: move RelayView into ui module
ui: only inline preview kind1 notes for now
ui: reduce vertical padding for more compact timelines
ui: remove some old note ui comments
ui: simplify note widget
ui: switch to flags for note options
update slow timeline query
update to latest nostrdb, adding tag support
update version in comment because I still use this on my laptop
use egui_virtual_list for rendering
use unique id for post/reply view
weird actionbar experiment
we should just called this damus
widgets: begin organizing ui components into widgets
working notes + notes&replies

kernelkind’s updates

account_management: refactor
AccountManagementView
AccountManager: add ability to make a selection
AccountSelectionWidget
Account switcher
Add AccountManager to app
Add custom visual themes
Add flag to emulate mobile during preview
Add keypair & update pubkey
Add login key parsing
Add login manager
Add MacOS key storage
Add MobileAccountLoginView
Add modular custom text styles
Add monospace text style
Add nix-shell for macos android development
Add nostr-sdk dependency
Add precommit hook to suggest proper formatting
Add preview for RelayView
Add relay view
add reqwest as dependency
Add SimpleProfilePreview
Add ui_test_harness binary implementation
Add warn color and highlight color
app: add accounts to Damus & mock
Apply app style to AccountLoginView
Apply cargo fmt
Conditionally compile MacOS key storage code
Constrain app minimum size
Create account login panel
Create side panel & global popup
enostr: expose RelayStatus
Extract the sample relay to test_data for reuse
impl linux credential storage
Integrate account switcher to side panel
Integrate global popup into app
login: Add key loading & error to mobile
macos_key_storage: runner ignore tests
migrate AccountManagementView to enostr Keypair
Migrate to new AccountManagementView conception
Move login business logic to LoginManager
move login logic from promise to async fns
Move preview controller out of account_manager.rs
move test account creation & apply to global popup
Pfp integration to side panel
refactor account switcher & management previews
Refactor ‘ui tests’ conception to previews
reintroduce account management
reintroduce account switcher
remove nostr-sdk
Rename PersistState -> StateInMemory
select first account
Seperate mobile dark color theme into its own func
update cargo.lock to reflect toml change
Update egui 0.26.1 -> 0.27.1
Use app_creation for common app setup functions
Use custom style in app
use nostr in enostr

Stats

name                                added  removed  commits
kernelkind <kernelkind@gmail.com>   +6844  -1979    58
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>     +9733  -5583    194

Damus iOS

Added

Ability to create highlights (ericholguin)
Add ability to mute hashtag from SearchView (Charlie Fish)
Add ability to mute words, add new mutelist interface (Charlie) (William Casarin)
Added callbackuri for a better ux when connecting mutiny wallet nwc (ericholguin)
Added nip10 marker replies (William Casarin)
Added title image and tags to longform events (ericholguin)
Add event content preview to the full screen carousel (Daniel D’Aquino)
Add First Aid solution for users who do not have a contact list created for their account (Daniel D’Aquino)
Add marker nip10 support when reading notes (William Casarin)
Add video cache to save network bandwidth (Daniel D’Aquino)
Completely new threads experience that is easier and more pleasant to use (Daniel D’Aquino)
Connect to Mutiny Wallet Button (ericholguin)
Highlights (NIP-84) (ericholguin)
Notification reminders for Damus Purple impending expiration (Daniel D’Aquino)
Proxy Tags are now viewable on Selected Events (ericholguin)
Relay fees metadata (ericholguin)
Revamp emoji picker to be less error-prone and add search, frequently used, and multiple skin tone support capabilities (Terry Yiu)
Show list of quoted reposts in threads (William Casarin)

Changed

Added first aid contact damus support email (alltheseas)
Add support for Apple In-App purchases (Daniel D’Aquino)
Always strip GPS data from images (kernelkind)
Change reactions to use a native looking emoji picker (Terry Yiu)
Errors with an NWC will show as an alert (ericholguin)
Improve UX around video playback (Daniel D’Aquino)
Moved paste nwc button to main wallet view (ericholguin)
Relay config view user interface (ericholguin)
Relay detail design (ericholguin)
Updated Zeus logo (ericholguin)

Fixed

Fix broken GIF uploads (Daniel D’Aquino)
Fix bug that would cause connection issues with relays defined with a trailing slash URL, and an inability to delete them. (Daniel D’Aquino)
Fixed issue where some replies were including the q tag (William Casarin)
Fixed issue where timeline was scrolling when it isn’t supposed to (William Casarin)
Fixed threads not loading sometimes (William Casarin)
Fixed wallet not disconnecting when a user logs out (ericholguin)
Fix emoji reactions being cut off (ericholguin)
Fix ghost notifications caused by Purple impending expiration notifications (Daniel D’Aquino)
Fix image indicators to limit number of dots to not spill screen beyond visible margins (ericholguin)
Fix in-app purchase issue that would trigger an error on purchase before confirming the account information. (Daniel D’Aquino)
Fix issue where bootstrap relays would inadvertently be added to the user’s list on connectivity issues (Daniel D’Aquino)
Fix missing Mute button in profile view menu (Terry Yiu)
Fix nostrscripts not loading (William Casarin)
Fix profile not updating bug (William Casarin)
Fix stale feed issue when follow list is too big (Daniel D’Aquino)
Fix thread bug where a quote isn’t picked up as a reply (William Casarin)
Fix welcome screen not showing if the user enters the app directly after a successful checkout without going through the link (Daniel D’Aquino)
Improve reliability of contact list creation during onboarding (Daniel D’Aquino)
Issue where NWC Scanner view would not dismiss after a failed scan/paste (ericholguin)

Stats

name                                      added  removed  commits
Fonta1n3 <fontainedenton@googlemail.com>  +1     -0       1
Sean Kibler <skibler@protonmail.com>      +13    -2       1
alltheseas <64376233+alltheseas>          +65    -1       4
Transifex <transifex@transifex.com>       +581   -39      36
Terry Yiu <git@tyiu.xyz>                  +763   -1383    8
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>           +1017  -1564    49
ericholguin <ericholguin@apache.org>      +1962  -643     13
Daniel D’Aquino <daniel@daquino.me>       +3885  -761     48