my dude. everything is product here. the only way to not have a production would be to use a brand new set of keys on a brand new relay and have your profile and application only use that one specific relay. you absolutely can do that, and sometimes developers do this, but that's not a real world scenario. you can't easily build a testing environment. which is why you see most devs here building and testing in production.
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If developers can’t be bothered to build a test environment, it only means that there aren’t consequences worth the expense/hassle to bugs going out into live Prod, which can only means that, sadly, NOSTR production is still a live sandpit. I would dearly love this to change by the way. But it’s so not Bitcoin standard yet is it?
And I hope you are taking this on the constructive spirit I truly mean it. And I thank you for engaging. And yes, I have had a few glasses tonight, hence the typos🤣