Gossip v0.8.0: Zaps, DMs, New Relay UX & More
Gossip is a desktop client for Nostr.
What's new
Big Changes
- Lightning Zaps have been implemented
- Direct Messages have been implemented
- Petname support (including in ContactList events) has been implemented
- Relay pages and UX have been completely redone
- Storage engine changed from SQLite to LMDB
- Fixed numerous caching related bugs (stale data, invalidation issues)
- Events that seemed to go missing are no longer missing
- HTTP fetching rework
- Verifies older cached files haven't changed, else it downloads the changed file (etag)
- Handles many kinds of error conditions more sanely
- Not overloading HTTP servers by limiting the number of parallel fetches
Medium Changes
- Status messages are in a queue, allowing you to see the last 3
- Metadata re-fetched periodically
- Events that augment others are loaded only when the event they augment is in view
- Settings rework with many more settings
- Command mode: pass a command as a parameter to run commands. Try 'help' to get started.
Minor Changes worth mentioning
- Performance analyses inspired multiple changes for better performance.
- Note rendering more dynamic (some changes were previously not immediately visible)
- Improvements with links to other nostr objects:
- Fixes around proper rendering
- Support for nrelay1, naddr1, 'a' tags
- Automatically fetching the referenced objects
- Thread searching now includes author's relays
- Better shutdown sequence, more likely to shutdown fairly quickly now
- Status info in left panel (optional)
- Better relay ranking
- Keyboard scrolling (PgUp, PgDn)
- Spam filtering with Rhai script file (optional)
