User lists

[alltheseas]

Tasks

User Story

As a Damus user who'd like to group together others users, I would like the capability to create, and modify lists of users, so that I can organize various user groups according to my preferences.

As a Damus user who'd like to discover information from a focused groups of users, I'd like to be able to see, and follow lists of users, so that I can find information from a particular group of people.

Acceptance Criteria

MVP

• Favorite/Starred Users #2438
• Lists side menu #2439
• Push notification option to notify when favourited user posts #2441
• List selection #2440

Full list implementation

• List can be set to public or private (encrypted) #2445
• Damus user can create new lists in lists menu (profile icon -> lists menu),
• When creating a new list, user must specify a list name (for instance, "nostr devs"), and can optionally specify a description (for instance "a list of devs who have contributed to the nostr protocol"). Suggested max 25 characters for list title, and max 100 characters for list description.
• List creator can add users to lists by searching by npub, or name from the lists menu,
• List creator can add or remove a user from an existing list by going to a user's profile, and hitting the three dots
• List creator can add or remove a user to an existing list by holding a tap and opening the hidden profile menu
• Users shall be able to un/follow public lists,
• Public lists shall be shareable by any user (appear as quote note/reply).

Future Question/Tickets

1. It is possible for Damus to suggest initial follow lists to new users.
2. See lists that I'm a part of
3. Remove myself from lists I'm a part of
4. Pinned lists - enabling pinned list shortcuts in home page
5. Report lists

[goodc0re]

I'd also like to have an equivalent to twitter lists in nostr.

The question is, should it be a NIP or should nostr clients find other ways to do it.

[alltheseas]

@BenGWeeks said he was "thinking about it".

Is this a developer commitment Mr Weeks?

😃

[BenGWeeks]

Ha ha, apologies; I've been out and about and not had much hands-on time recently!

[BenGWeeks]

PS Love the user story / acceptance criteria format! I do wish GitHub allowed you to build a proper backlog like DevOps does sometimes!

[alltheseas]

PS Love the user story / acceptance criteria format! I do wish GitHub allowed you to build a proper backlog like DevOps does sometimes!

I am very happy to build a product backlog, add milestones for Damus.

I am in the process of roadmapping this for two other nostr projects.

In order to do this I would need permissions for github projects & milestones.

[alltheseas]

Ideally lists are NIP-51 compatible on day one.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/b12c93c452814ffa5f06aef95b60775bc86eaf58/51.md

[alltheseas]

@robagreda what do you think of

https://damus.io/note16g5k46tj9lp8tsu6uadtvhyp88c7cvu5ltjqwknrv8k2c8lx8tvqhqr8da

cc @danieldaquino I'm suggesting lists for following sprint

[alltheseas]

How might we think about dunbar's number 150 when it comes to contact lists?

Via TGFN pod https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thank-god-for-nostr/id1694064646?i=1000630827190

[alltheseas]

https://damus.io/nevent1qqs964flf4j56zsdzep7c8laz4c6f3pkhl3zc46a7k95sk5lr9u0jksv4e7ta

A problem that user lists could solve:

the feeds move to fast and i need lists, stacked and categorized. Often i feel like i miss good posts and only find them on the lazyweb days later.

[alltheseas]

twitter lists approach

@robagreda

[alltheseas]

@robagreda designs are here @danieldaquino damus.io/figma

screenshot

[alltheseas]

Related:

Convert muted lists to nip-51

#1026

#1025

Convert local bookmarks to nip-51 #1024

Pinned note #609

[danieldaquino]

@jb55, do you currently have any branches where you have integrated any NostrDB version containing ndb_query_result, ndb_begin_query, and ndb_query support?

I will need that kind of query capability to store and retrieve user lists, and I see the tip of master on https://github.com/damus-io/nostrdb/tree/master has these, but not the nostrdb we have on Damus iOS. I want to try updating nostrdb, but if you have already started working on that, it might be faster for me to pick up where you left.

I see https://github.com/damus-io/damus/pull/2121/commits, but there seems to be many other changes mixed in and I am not sure which commit range to use, or if there is any clean cut for just the new nostrdb version integrated without the other local relay model stuff

[danieldaquino]

@jb55, do you currently have any branches where you have integrated any NostrDB version containing ndb_query_result, ndb_begin_query, and ndb_query support?

I will need that kind of query capability to store and retrieve user lists, and I see the tip of master on https://github.com/damus-io/nostrdb/tree/master has these, but not the nostrdb we have on Damus iOS. I want to try updating nostrdb, but if you have already started working on that, it might be faster for me to pick up where you left.

I see https://github.com/damus-io/damus/pull/2121/commits, but there seems to be many other changes mixed in and I am not sure which commit range to use, or if there is any clean cut for just the new nostrdb version integrated without the other local relay model stuff

So far I have been trying and experimenting with 3 different strategies:

1. Implement/backport the query capabilities to the nostrdb version we are running on: Learned more about how lmdb queries work, but feels wasteful since that work has been done on the latest nostrdb, so I paused it
2. Update nostrdb by running ./copy-ndb (an altered version to match the current project structure) and fixing compiler errors: Made some progress here, but currently fixing imports related to CCNA
3. Getting Update nostrdb, switch to local relay model #2121 to a mergeable state (without completing the remaining local relay model work): Can't compile, also currently fixing imports related CCNA

@jb55 can you please advise what you think the fastest path to getting NostrDB query support on damus iOS would be?

I am looking to get ndb_query_result, ndb_begin_query, and ndb_query on iOS (To do a query equivalent to $ ndb query -k 30000 -a <USER_PUBKEY>, so that I can reliably store and fetch user lists locally to build this feature more robustly. I don't need the entire local relay model support, I just need better query capabilities similar to the ones we have on the latest NostrDB.