I've got a whole mess of relays I'm connected to after a lot of trial and error of which were overloaded, check them out on my profile!
I removed a lot of the "default" ones like relay.damus and relay.snort as those just get overloaded by the hordes of people that just use the 5 default relays that come with the client. Those default ones have become unusable at this point.
Also, it can be handy to check nostr.watch every once in a while and see which relays have uptime closest to 100%
Just from perusing the relays I see you're connected to and checking their uptime the past 24h
wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net --- uptime of 93%
wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social --- uptime of 52% (not great)
wss://nostr.onsats.org --- uptime of 4% (yikes)
wss://nostr.zebedee.cloud --- uptime of 4% (yikes again)
wss://relay.damus.io --- doesn't even show an uptime because it's basically melting down from use
wss://relay.nostr.bg --- uptime of 54%
wss://relay.nostr.info --- uptime of 12%
I think we've found the problem :)
Appreciate you taking the time to post this. Relay management is something I'm really curious about today.
Pruning based off poor performance seems obvious, but I'm curious what the best way is to find relays with the most pertinent people to me is? Do any services or clients show % of followers or follows coming from each relay?
