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How much do we care about relay query speed vs note retention?

On a big aggregator like filter.nostr.wine, I could probably improve performance significantly by only serving the last 3 months of notes instead of our full history. Worth it?
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nobody 2y ago

Personally, this is the value proposition of having both aggregators (y’all) and smaller solo servers (like mine) on my list.

Yall are the performant way to get data from a lot of places, mine is a permanent home for notes.

I’d have no issue if yall did a 90 day retention to speed things up.

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Mazin 2y ago

Thank you. This is how I view it as well but wanted to get some opinions.

Much easier for us to retain your notes longer on nostr.wine than on filter.

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nobody 2y ago

I agree. And with broadcast=true, those notes are also persisted to the other relays. It’s not like youre talking about deleting content so it’s not there.

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Mazin 2y ago

True, though the truth is that many large public relay operators wipe their DBs at will. It’s not reasonable for anyone to really expect them to retain notes.

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nobody 2y ago

Retention policy really ought to be part of NIP-11 so clients can display it.

My paid relay does not delete notes. I realize it’ll be an issue if I ever get big, but thats a problem I think it worth solving.