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Today's #nostrdesign call to action is to improve your relay management screens / views 🙏

Some things that you as a developer can do on relay page:

1. Explain what a relay is and what it does. You can see https://nostrdesign.org/docs/faq/ if you are not sure how to describe it.

2. Explain the difference between read and write relays

3. Provide user with feedback that their relay selections have been saved when they press save. Toast notifications are great for this.

4. If you show recommended relays, explain why these are the ones that you recommend.

5. Explain other ways of finding relays.

6. Make it clear which relays are paid and free (maybe use actual text labels). And possibly explain the difference between paid and free relays, see nostr faq again for this.

You can do a lot of this with hover tooltips (click on mobile), or if the wording is concise, add directly to the interface.

Lastly, don't forget to run it by as many people as possible and just ask them to explain relays to you. If they still struggle, back to the drawing board!

Do users need to know what a relay is?

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We could abstract it away so they never see them, but at some point they will run into issues they won't understand how to fix unless they can manage the relay.

I responded in wrong thread lol