Building new channels

Building my new Lightning node (Under Tor with Umbrel this time) took *way* longer than I had hoped. Blockchain download was long, and hard-drive failures were oft. In the end I had to replace hard-drives two times and the entire mini-PC once coz it just wouldn't stop overheating.

But it is finally done, just at exactly the same time as the hard-drive of my old node failed.

I have managed to move the wallet data to the new node, with only a few weeks downtime, and other than apparently one of my peers is offline now I think that's worked.

In the two years or so of the old node running it helped with a total of about 3 transactions.

So the plan is still to shut this node down and build a new one unassimilated with the old IP addresses/IDs.

I'd like to be more useful to the network with the new node than one and a half transactions a year. I don't really care about making any sats profit from it, just wanna contribute to the liquidity flow and keep the channels balanced.

But I have no idea how to open channels which might do that, or about any search systems that could find them.

Anyone got any advice?