GOSSIP USERS: Gossip automatically fetches metadata now (on master branch) You can turn it off in settings. It triggers these fetches whenever the UI wants to render a person's details but notices the data isn't there, and a background task starts the fetch operation at most one every short period of time so we don't slam the relays all at once (if you go into a thread you might suddenly need several dozen and we ask on multiple relays per person so it could be 50 or 60 relay connections suddenly popping up if I wasn't spacing them out). It seems fast enough for me but I'll probably make the delay adjustable. #[0]
Discussion
If it's not too much to ask, can you support ws:// relays?
This seems to be working great. Excellent refinement.
Should gossip also be fetching metadata for npub mentions within the text of notes? As far as I can tell it currently doesn't - if the npub metadata has already been fetched gossip renders a NIP-05 name but if it has not, it renders a truncated npub as a link. i guess you'd want to limit how many of these you did so if someone posted a note with a thousand npubs it wouldn't DDOS you, but in the case where there is just a few mentions i think it would be a good addition.