Somebody might need to run some tests in production. There are many things that affect that speed, including:
- Spam detection procedures
- Database Index refresh
- Key priority (paid users go first) to both post and see a post
- Content classification tools (safe for kids relays)
- Event redistribution to the CDN servers in separate locations
But you talked about delays in the minutes. Nostr isn't at that level of adoption is it? Which relay has a backlog of minutes?
I opened your note in Incognito windows with primal and with coracle to see when my other reply would hit and more shockingly than a delay, I noticed it did not show the reply at all until I hit reload.
But Coracle reported to have seen replies within a second on 3 relays, so ... either I have good relays or your problem isn't as dire as you made us believe it was. Either way, I wish somebody would monitor things like that. I actually have bought a domain for that and would fund engineers to work on that.
I assume you are using good relays. Most users have accepted whatever their first client has offered and many clients used to randomize relays from nostr.watch to try to decentralize the network from the bigger ones. When people don't know which relays they use, things can be quite slow.
