Relay software without administration isn't relay software it's an unsecured database. No it is not acceptable to restart a production relay process when I need to update ACLs.
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Literally, an unsecured document database in the cloud.
Someone enterprising is just going to dump his Azure DB on nos.lol and LOL.
https://github.com/dezh-tech/kraken
https://github.com/dezh-tech/mangostr
both are work in progress.
first one aims to manage an immortal relay implementation, a media server and nip05 server. with an admin panel. showing and managing everything. it used a custom grpc api to interact with it's services.
second one is a generalized ui panel (recently started.) using nip-86 which allows you to manage any relay supporting it easily.
they are no usable or at least easy to use at the moment. we are only 2 devs working on them. but soon they would be ready to use. 🪼🫡
this management issue was one of stuff we realized that nostr needs and we did that for it.
second one was scalability of general and global relays, which we provided solutions for them as well.