Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr Like YouTube

Re:Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on ... by KomoD on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:06AM (#38719930)

I don't even know how to sign up... lol

there's an "nsec" field which i have no clue what it is

there's a "connect with nsec" button which again, i don't know what it is.

and then there's "login with extension" button which does nothing.

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Re:Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on ... by Zm44 on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:43AM (#38720273)

Yeah, you're probably better off getting setup with a nostr account on https://primal.net/home or Damus. You'd need a nostr extension for the extension button to work

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Re:Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on ... by vnuge on Thursday December 21, 2023 @11:54AM (#38723016)

For you and others following. Common in early nostr apps. The web-extension spec is defined in https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/07.md. Most apps check for window.nostr, then fail silently when it's missing or blocked. There are also some popular extensions in that list.

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Re:Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on ... by itslennysfault on Thursday December 21, 2023 @04:40PM (#38727382)

Yeah, onboarding could use some love. This happens a lot with Nostr projects. It's built by Nostr nerds for Nostr nerds and to them "nsec" is super obvious. They really should NOT ENCOURAGE PASTING NSEC as it is not secure and explain how to generate an nsec and how to use a browser extension / wallet to log in.

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