Somewhat unrelated, but I think Reddit-like communities have a better chance to succeed than topic-specific relays.
I think relays are slightly harder to understand as a concept and they work better as something which is "transparent" to the user: a mere technical detail most of the time, which the user doesn't have to keep track of. Users shouldn't be expected to manually select relays every time they post.
A solution can be that of having a community and hosting it on a relay specific for that community. Alternatively, a relay could fetch and store events with a given hashtag.
The news relay is/was an early experiment in segmenting content. Many news outlets are running rss feeds which can clog feeds. The news relay allows you to get your news while still seeing the other things in your feed.
100% agree that communities can benefit from relays!
If the purpose is that of having RSS bots it might make sense.
I thought the idea was having users specifically electing to push to the news relay when they post news, which I think is unlikely to become a common practice unless it's automated in some smart way.
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