hm, so far, my own extremely primitive client has no trouble talking to relay.nostrview.com and Snort struggled to give me a global timeline for that one.
you should be able to add any paid relay to see what's on it.
relay.reeve.cn is publishing my posts and is claiming to be a paid relay, but i never paid for it 😂
impressions so far...
timeline of filter.nostr.wine:
YOO BITCOIN MAXX ZAP HODL TO DA MOON
timeline of nostr.wine:
[normal conversations]
filter.nostr.wine is a spam-filtered aggregate of the top free relays, so it's representative of all the users who aren't paying anything.
nostr.wine is perhaps the paid relay i see the most in my searches. the owner seems friendly and responsive.
lol, i removed several malfunctioning relays that i unfortunately paid for without checking them, but stuff is getting posted to them anyway because i use nostr.mutinywallet.com, which is a free write-only relay that blasts your posts at a ton of relays for you. i've got less than a dozen relays configured in my clients now, but my posts reach 133 relays. not that the number is super important. most clients are configured with the same handful of relays anyway...
relay.nostrich.land's timeline loads fine for me. they want 15,000 for posting access though - the most expensive i've seen so far - and i think i'm getting adequate distribution with nostr.wine. i'll just keep it as a read-only relay.
relay.nostrview.com seems to be a fairly popular paid relay, but i can't even get a timeline to load from it in Snort. i'm able to get many other relays to load a timeline, so i'm faulting the relay for that. not gonna include it in my relay list.
i knowwwwww 😂
sure, and i do the same, but not *everyone* is posting to nostr.wine, so i'm just trying to sort out which of the paid ones are even worth using. nostr.wine is one of them.
the snort.social client needs more than 10 subscriptions but the relay.orangepill.dev is like "nope, you can't have that" and also it keeps closing the connection all the time, so i think i'm gonna remove it. i've removed several of the "famous" relays because they generate so many errors.
Nostr client: hey, relay, i'd like the timeline pl
some relay: no *disconnects*
from what i'm seeing, both the clients and the relays are broken in various strange and wonderful ways, depending on which combinations you try 😂
a lot of the default relays that most clients use aren't that great
never paying for a relay again unless i can actually get it to load a global timeline in Snort. you can check them individually there. also, you can check which relays keep kicking you out if you open the browser console.
1/3 of the relays just close the connection immediately, even if you pay for them...
watching the debug console for Nostr clients is pure chaos.
latency measurements for NRCheck (https://nrcheck.tigerville.no) should be a lot more accurate now.
before, i was including the time to connect in the measurement, but the number of workers (and the type of web browser) affected it too much, so now i ignore the time it takes to connect and look only at the response time to a query after connecting, which seems to be a lot more consistent.
the only disadvantage of this is that i'm no longer measuring how long it actually takes to connect, and some relays are a lot slower at this than actually responding to queries once connected.
new NRCheck features:
- considerably faster
- latency ranking
TIL that the Albanian civil war was triggered by a Ponzi scheme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb7al22iNPc
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