Not so Perfect News Idea

[palmtree]

Hello friends,

I've played around and successfully tested (proof of concept) a creative idea to publish community and or official news. I'm not saying we need to do this, but at least have a conversation about it. This comes to PIVX with little to no cost (a subdomain on PIVX.org or a new domain), no servers, no maintenance!

It is not a perfect solution, but it can work starting today!

PROS:

• up and running fast
• no servers, no CMS, no maintenance
• RSS FEED!!!
• Text search
• TAG search
• content writers can be added or removed
• great looking previews when shared on all social networks and messaging apps
• no database to backup, no security issues to fix, no performance upgrades
• SEO-Friendly, proper meta tags accumulating trust signals to your own domain

Cons:

• no access to html (template based but custom css and js can be added/injected)
• slower than a native website (news is fetched from each persons browser from decentralized servers)
• requires a third party, although technically can be self hosted as it is open source
• if creator is removed, all their posts are removed as well added since OP
• no old news import (which in my opinion, is good) (in fact I think all news should expire after some time) added since OP

What's The Idea or How is This Being Done:
Simplified version - a custom domain points to a server where a js script then fetches the theme, site settings, images, and further collects news articles from NOSTR's decentralized servers. https://github.com/nostrband/nostrsite/

Less simplified version - NostrSites is a client-side nip-512 engine for rendering HTML pages from Nostr events using Ghost themes. It takes the engine from libnostrsite and adds all wrappers required to run it inside a browser tab and in a service-worker.

NOTE: This is a very early work in progress, lots of features are missing or partially implemented, use at your own risk.

Steps For Creators

1. Each creator would need to set up a NOSTR account (super easy, no KYC)
2. Be added as an approved creator (sharing public key)
3. Follow simple guidelines so posts look consistent

Creators can use whichever NOSTR client they are most comfortable with (there are dozens of clients for every os)

Screenshot of what I accomplished in an evening (or two). Someone with good CSS skills can likely make it sing.

Fun Available Domains:

• pivx.fun
• pivx.club
• pivx.blog
• pivx.tech
• pivx.buzz

Feedback Aprreciated

 

[Liquid369]

I think this is a cool idea utilizing Nostr so we can do more news content. But is it more for the creator or for us?

 

[palmtree]

I think this is a cool idea utilizing Nostr so we can do more news content. But is it more for the creator or for us?

It is for PIVX. If you look at past years news on pivx.org, there are several content creators:

• Leacymck
• Shorn
• Profmetaverse
• Yenachar

Also Labz has some more. And the same or other creators on Medium. There's also news on X and Telegram that is not on all the other channels.

This is to have a space where someone could visit and see all the news in one place.

In addition, an rss feed (which we currently lack) which could be added to exchanges and other crypto sites. This would make us appear to be more active (aka still alive).

In further addition, the ability to search text and paging so all the news is not on a really long bloated page, both of which the current website lacks!