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Why is it so hard to find a good Lightning node to open channel to? None of the currently available sites have any good suggestions. Many nodes don’t maintain a good uptime and cause force-closures. Many close on you once they get all your liquidity, just a complete mayhem. It is so much harder to have a good routing node today, unless you have 10s of coins deployed onto it (which I don’t have to begin with 😭). With this progression, I am not sure I would want continue running a node in the future. 😭
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Rizful.com 8mo ago

Hm.... running a "routing node" is a black art and there are no straightforward ways to make it successful...

But i if you want a channel that is guaranteed to stay open, with high payment reliability... we recommend these steps ...

1) Get a channel from Megalith LSP .. https://megalithic.me/get_a_channel

2) Be sure to use the channel at least once per month

3) The channel should NEVER close

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 8mo ago

lol! When I mentioned about “channel was closed after liquidity went to the other side” I was talking about Megalith node. So, no thanks. And I did have some usage.

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Rizful.com 8mo ago

Right. So this is a channel you opened to Megalithic.me for routing purposes, not Megalith LSP, right?

For Megalithic.me, we are hyper-focused on PAYMENT RELIABILITY as Megalithic.me is the hub connecting a lot of important spokes.

We have quite complicated heuristics related to failed payments, that will (as you may have experienced...) close channels under certain conditions.

Also, the experience of "liquidity went to the other side" .. remember that that's actually not something we have much direct control over! Likely that was a node that is connected to you, sending payments through your channel, then through our channel! This is part of the magic of lightning...