One of the biggest improvements is the way navigation and discovery now work. Explore is clearly the place to discover substrs and communities, while Discover is the feed for the latest posts across different substrs.
The onboarding, settings, and signer flow have also become more approachable. New users now first see a simple choice between Create account and Already have an account, before entering the more technical signer flow. That makes the first impression less intimidating, while still preserving the flexibility of local signers and browser extensions like NIP-07.
We’ve also continued expanding the publishing side of Substr. Alongside regular posts, media posts, and discussions, Substr now supports long-form publishing through NIP-23. This opens the door for essays, announcements, deeper guides, and longer updates to live natively inside communities, instead of forcing everything into short feed posts.
A lot of smaller but meaningful improvements have also gone into how content is displayed. Media and rich-text posts now render more consistently, shared Nostr ID posts have been refined visually, mentions are handled better, and link/video previews behave more reliably. Opening a post from a feed into its /p/ page also feels smoother, with less unnecessary loading between the feed and the detail view.
Other updates:
That's it for this week.
On the the next one, cheers!