Nostr Web Client

Is there a spec on the Max Size of event content that relays will take? I can't seem to find it spelled out anywhere.

As far as I know it is relay dependent. Some relays may allow larger messages than others. Some months back I created a message that was many K long. I don't remember the actual size but it made it onto the relays we were using at the time.

>From: bigmarh<-DerekRoss at 04/25/23 12:40:11 on wss://relay.damus.io

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>Is there a spec on the Max Size of event content that relays will take? I can't seem to find it spelled out anywhere.

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yunginter.net 2y ago

Yes, there are server limitations in nip 11 with all sorts of maxiums. Not sure if any relay is using it, or clients just Dont surface this. I think if you had a specific use case that required larger notes, you would write a nip for that specific use case and relays can list what nips they support, which is surfaced in client's and places like .watch

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/11.md

bigmarh 2y ago

Thank you!

Patrick 2y ago

It was added as an 'extension' to nip-11 but go-nostr at least doesn't define these fields yet. I certainly didn't know about it but it seems needed.

I'll PR it now (other than retention structure which I think is ill-defined).

bigmarh 2y ago

Thank you for this answer