good to know. thanks jon. nostrgram is my desktop client today. everything else is unusable.
Discussion
Is there a way to see the the relays that I'm using on NostrGram? This client is much, much faster than any web client and I'd like to know if it's because the relays I'm using here are significantly different.
NostrGram gathers events from the top 100 relays real-time. You can see the list of the top relays here (the first 100 in that list are used to gather events, plus the new one from #[2] wss://eden.nostr.land)
https://nostrum.pro/search/#allrelays
Writes go to the top 25 relays, which you can see here (many are offline because of the current load):
https://nostrum.pro/search/#relays
There's no way in NostrGram to set custom relays yet. All reads come from the caching server I built (thus the massive performance benefit over being connected to a dozen relays). Writes (new notes and reactions) go to the top 25.
At some point I'll put in the ability to specify your write relays. I'm thinking through how to incorporate custom read relays alongside the cache server. Some of the features of NostrGram are possible only because of the cache server, so I have to plan how to do that. Right now I'm focused on adding all the features I want and working out the bugs, then I'll get to that.
Thank you for explaining. This makes perfect sense as to why things actually work and are speedy.
My initial thought was to make a client that was as *easy as possible* for new users (no need to mess with relay settings or worry about what's up/down/working/not). I do, of course, want support for power users as well, it's just not the first priority.
