joeruelle on Nostr: One thing I never quite understood is why this icon is not the Sat icon. Because one ...
One thing I never quite understood is why this icon is not the Sat icon. Because one Zap can contain any number of Sats. This here is not 522 Zaps, this is 522 Sats as a result of 19 Zaps. It seems like unnecessary conflation.
Also having that icon there be clearly a Sats icon means no need to argue about how the Sats were delivered, because the icon doesn't have an opinion on the delivery method. The icon is just saying how many were delivered in the end. (The Zap icon on the other hand is hinting that they were all delivered via LN). If a user wants to see how the Sats were delivered then the user can tap to go deeper and it'll show the batches (Zaps) and the batch types (Nut vs LN) and whatever else.
No issue at all with Zap as the verb ("nobody's zapping this") and also as the batch noun (this "Zap" contains 100 Sats). We need that verb and that batch-noun. But as for the icon, never quite understood why it too was a Zap.
Having said that I'm aware that some of the many Sat icon variants kicking around are indeed lightning bolts of various design--but either way I feel we need an icon for both the individual units (Sat icon) and the batch-noun/verb(Zap icon)--and if they're the same icon that doesn't really help.
Also having that icon there be clearly a Sats icon means no need to argue about how the Sats were delivered, because the icon doesn't have an opinion on the delivery method. The icon is just saying how many were delivered in the end. (The Zap icon on the other hand is hinting that they were all delivered via LN). If a user wants to see how the Sats were delivered then the user can tap to go deeper and it'll show the batches (Zaps) and the batch types (Nut vs LN) and whatever else.
No issue at all with Zap as the verb ("nobody's zapping this") and also as the batch noun (this "Zap" contains 100 Sats). We need that verb and that batch-noun. But as for the icon, never quite understood why it too was a Zap.
Having said that I'm aware that some of the many Sat icon variants kicking around are indeed lightning bolts of various design--but either way I feel we need an icon for both the individual units (Sat icon) and the batch-noun/verb(Zap icon)--and if they're the same icon that doesn't really help.