With a great deal of hesitation towards even entering this conversation the only thing I want to say is that one of the reasons why several clients have NIP-42 is because we (nostr.wine) paid 500k sat bounties per client (Amethyst, Damus, Snort and Iris) and raised a lot of awareness about why NIP-42 matters.
Iām not sure why you think we owe you anything besides a reliable relay.
šÆ absolutely zero clients would support auth if it wasn't for Mazin pushing it forward. š
they still don't, unless you put "payment-required": true in the nip-11 as well
why have "auth-required" at all people
and i was railing against the clients up until i learned that one of the mechanisms existing for it, that i have contributed to by paying and using, does not enforce exclusivity of access to privileged messages, and it's closed source
i'm still feeling kinda cold on this because it's not logical, any of it, and it took such a lot of mean words to get anyone to even think about it properly
i've found there may be a bug in my code that is stalling the socket when error conditions occur tho... it does it with duplicate and maybe it also does it by the same mechanism when auth-required comes up
