nostr.watch daemons can soon be blocked via `robots.txt`
Blocking nostr.watch daemons will eventually result in an Uptime of 0% on the site, limited data availability on nostr.watch and will exclude your relay's data from global historical data, which has not yet been revealed.
Robots.txt will not affect-clientside checks, and your relay will still be listed on nostr.watch. Delistings of online relays is not currently supported.
If your relay is `wss://relay.com` then the robots.txt location would be `https://relay.com/robots.txt`
Using robots.txt is not exactly standard, but was easy to piggy-back on, it is temporary. The better solution would be an amendment to NIP-11 of some sort. Robots.txt parsing by nostr.watch daemons will be deprecated when there is a suitable alternative.
If your robots.txt is currently disallowing all User-agents, but you wish to allow nostr.watch, add:
User-agent: nostr.watch
Allow: /
Please be aware the daemons are getting more performant, optimized and polite with each passing day, they were pretty rude out of the gate, largely due to a feedback loop between two disparate bugs. Sorry about that.
nostr.watch@0.2 Re-enabled contact list editing (kind:3) for visitors with a NIP-07 extension. NIP-65 relay lists management, as well as some extra features around relay lists in general, will be rolled out over the coming weeks.
Yeah it's annoying...
https://github.com/getAlby/lightning-browser-extension/issues/2016
I don't have crash issues, but I do have issues with their endpoint returning invalid invoices the majority of the time.
all your memes are belong to us
*As we look over the fence from our android favela*
It's funny how more than a decade of price and fee swings can make one immune to such "inconveniences".
It'll work itself out.
I can only use snort for replies right now, otherwise I spam irrelevant notes into threads.
I noticed it yesterday, but then went back in my timeline and realized it's been happening for a few days.
https://nostr.watch traffic was up 419% against the 7 day average on February 1st (CET)
Please don't provoke them.