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I should probably not keep quiet about the fact that this release also includes an experimental feature that’s not exactly easy to pull off: Smart Identity Anchoring.

Inspired by this post here:

According to the feature story, it’s supposed to solve this problem:

“Help users recognize people they follow even after profile changes (name, picture). When someone you follow changes their profile, the app shows visual cues to help you remember who they are based on how you first met them.

On Nostr, pubkey is the only stable identifier, but it’s not human recognizable. Users change names and profile pictures frequently, making it hard to recognize people you know. This feature provides visual continuity during profile transitions.“

So this is how it looks for now. User @[ mslm dvlpmnt ] changes its profil pic (and username), and thinks he can get away with switching his identity, because who remembers npubs anyway? But the profile pic and name from that first encounter got saved, and so it blinks back and forth between the old and new profile pics. Right there in the timeline and on the profile page.

I just thought: Show the old profile picture and name blinking for a while too, until the user gets used to the new one (or always). You can set this behavior in the settings.

https://image.nostr.build/8216f2343a916a080e98185705c18ff755ca9513aa01689a762a9e0be93d99e9.png

Well, it’s not exactly intensively tested, but sometimes I’m just the ‘shoot first, test later’ type.

What do you think? Good or bad feature? Unnecessary? Annoying?