The current issue with relay-centric relay browsing is that relays are not specialized nor descriptive. The user has no idea what they are or why they should select something else. If this changes and we have topic-specific relays and labeling, then I could see it working.
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💯 I still don’t know if I need all the relays I ended up paying for in the earlier days, I had no idea who was reading from them and what content I would find on them but I just went and subscribe to quite a few (a lot I’ve had to remove now since they either disappeared or I discovered no one was actually reading from them)
I've not looked into relay data much. Is the relay metadata NIP expressive enough to enable a fun relay explorer? Or is it just technical info?
We could add the top10 hashtags, users and topics (through text mining) in the relay metadata itself, with NIP. This would provide a more relay-content-centric relay browsing experience.
agree, i've heard this requested many times, and that's why I want to have a public searchable directory for all relay creators to show off their relay and it's purpose/category should they want to create a relay experience like that #onlyfeet 🚀
The relay architecture is terrible for curation. That's why relay-centric browsing is broken.
Instead of redesigning the relay-centric browsing, what about adding sub-tiers within each relay. There could be some level of standard where certain things are classified as a base which each relay has, and then underneath you could have topics listed out?
Example.
Relay
- Video
- Coffee
- Wine
- Bitcoin
- Images
- xyz
- notes
- xyz
