Perhaps this is all due to a lack of power on the relay side. You kind of want to ask relays to send mentioned file attachment event alongside the main event in the same subscription, so you don’t have to fetch things separately that you’ll always want to process together.

But perhaps that’s straying too far from the simplicity of the protocol…

#[2]​ idk I think you’ve hit a wall. Push for everything else but images to be implemented this way and maybe someday images will join the pack when lower hanging fruit has already been picked, too many things to build right now to rebuild old things yet.

Ehm Ehm Nip57 - LNaddress servers.

Never say never

Harder right now, perhaps, and I agree that for the time being let’s not break images and keep them inline.

But in the long term, if we discourage referencing other notes from within kind 1s we will end up continually adding more functionality inside kind 1s instead of giving each function a separate kind. The latter is more modular and cleaner to implement, the sole pain point being that you need to pull in referenced notes in order to render the text note properly, which just isn’t reliable right now.