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usually your app should have some indicator that the relay is disconnected or slow, normally red is bad.

we've had various guides and tools over the years but nothing that's super simple like you suggested.

I know, I have looked at a few, and always felt that they were all too theoretical. "Choose a relay that people you follow use" or similar. And I just don't want to do that work... When I have done it in the past I end up on some now abandoned relay... I am a sw dev, and a longtime bitcoiner, so quite a techy person. But there are so many things I would rather do with my time... I feel this is making nostr hard to adopt.

Let me see what I can come up with.

Would be awesome! Aim for "good enough", and personally I would not mind paid relays, but I kinda need to know that it is actually going to to be better than other options.

Here you go. I need to do more work on it, but this should be a good first start.

Relay Optimizer

Relay Optimizer - Supercharge Your Nostr Experience

The easiest way to optimize your Nostr relay connections. Test relay speeds, discover what relays your friends use, and publish your configuration ...

Oh! Wooow! Will give it a whirl as soon as I can after all the xmas stress dies down! Merry Christmas!

I gave it a whirl, and it definitely shows promise, but I actually failed to get it to work, I think :-) I removed a couple of relays and added two new ones. So that I had 4 inbox and 2 outbox relays. Then I pressed publish, and got to sign a few events through my alby-hub extension. But then I got the following error: One thing I think needs clarification is what is supposed to happen after that publish succeeds. Does that update my relay settings in Primal and Amethyst, or am I expected to do more there? And an idea for a first step before getting to update the settings would be a basic "score" on my settings. Like "These settings look okay" or "You will have trouble reaching your followers" or "You will experience slow search" etc. If this worked well I could check this website every few months and check if my settings make sense still. I think that is a reasonable use case for a site like this, to be able to periodically check my settings.

this updates all of your applications that use your nostr profile's nip-65 relay settings, so yes, Amethyst and Primal would see updates. as for that error, im wondering if it's because you added zero write relays and you were not able to write any changes do the read-only relays in your list. let me fix this so people must have at least one write and one read relay for people that don't understand what they're doing here. thank you!

fixed!

I am pretty sure I had two writes and four reads at least one of the times that I got that error. I tried three times.

I am going to try to stay clueless in my usage attempts, that is the target audience, right? 😃