I am currently developing a list of criteria for rating relays for the relay marketplace.

Please reply with your suggestions and renote for visibility.

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- Legal

- ToS available

- Privacy Policy is reasonable

- Log policy

- Infrastructure

- Supports high availability

- Runs relay software

- Backups

- Aggregators/Search

- Relays read from

- Low data mode

- General

- Spam filtering

- Privacy protection with NIP42

- Gift wrap spam filtering

- Migration

- Exporting events from relay

- Importing events into relay

- Issues

- Aggressive rate limiting

- Very low performance

- Unsustainable relay operation

Jurisdictions/locations

Latency is also something to consider, so that a user can choose relays that are geographically close.

Latency is usually not noticable unless the relay is of low performance. That is coming for later in general as a stats graph