Issues, and lots of them as of late lmao.
Discussion
looked back over your notes to see you're using lnd embeded in zeus. probably can't help with that I'm afraid
The issue with slow payments is probably that your node is making lots of failed attempts. Since unlike in phoenix, you have to route the payments yourself, your node has to try an fail in order to learn good paths. lnd will remember the good and bad paths for next time though so hopefully that helps.
I think mutiny does it better since they provide a pruned view of the network for their users with their gossip sync. lnd does have a hacky version of a gossip sync that blixt and zeus use (it's called the speedloader irc) but it would probably not be trivial to do what mutiny does and add probing information to that.
maybe a mission control speedloader can be developed in the future nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 ?
I've seen a self-custody LN address on Mutiny's profile; if that's a new feature anyone using Mutiny has, there is no reason for me whatsoever to use ZEUS anymore.
Don't want to keep "losing" money when something fucks up, and it's not FULLY my fault.
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