Nostr Web Client

I updated the list of relays that gossip offers new users. This was difficult. Not many relays meet the requirements, and I wanted 20 of them.

Even after filtering out a lot of relays, more than half of the ones I tested don't accept notes from the public. We have a lot of relay specialization now.

That is fine and good. BUT it makes writing a client more difficult.

Well, in particular, it makes selecting INBOX and OUTBOX relays more difficult. I guess I client can just punt that job to the end users like we do now, but it sure would be nice if a client could figure out which relays are suitable for such jobs. And to do that, clients either need to get relay information from some relay testing service, or do the relay testing themselves (which might be expensive, and the probes might clutter nostr a bit).

dluvian 1y ago

Which relays did you choose?

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 1y ago

If anybody knows why any of these shouldn't be a default option, please let me know.

"wss://nostr.einundzwanzig.space/",

"wss://relay.primal.net/",

"wss://nostrue.com/",

"wss://relay.exit.pub/",

"wss://relay.damus.io/",

"wss://relay.nostr.band/",

"wss://nostr.lu.ke/",

"wss://relayable.org/",

"wss://offchain.pub/",

"wss://relay.nostr.bg/",

"wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social/",

"wss://n.ok0.org/",

"wss://nostr.oxtr.dev/",

"wss://purplerelay.com/",

"wss://relay.mutinywallet.com/",

"wss://nostr.sathoarder.com/",

"wss://relay.nostr.jabber.ch/",

"wss://bostr.lecturify.net/",

"wss://nostr.data.haus/",

"wss://relay.nostr.net/",

If you have other relays you want to be default in gossip, sorry it doesn't work that way. I use a fixed algorithm to pick the relays so that it will be as unbiased as possible.

hodlbod 1y ago

Including damus/primal is a difficult trade off. Without them you can't connect to anyone, because damus and primal are stupid about relay selections. But by funneling people to those relays you're just making the problem worse :/

Mazin 1y ago

Also just FYI the mutinywallet relay is a blastr, so in a sense you’ve picked all the relays for broadcasting 😂