in a couple weeks there'll be some free time and we're planning to rewrite the ansible playbooks for the relay as a nix config. I'll take a look at our WoT based filtering tiers and see if I can add any improvements. also going to see if I can set up an inbox relay endpoint. What features do you want from your relay? the main thing I think we could improve is communicating the features that are already implemented. we published them before as long-form notes, but no one probably reads those. we should be publishing features on actual web pages. then no one can read those too! x_X

Just initiated the DNS changes to migrate to our new server. We're keeping an eye on traffic starting to switch over now. Looking good so far.

New server is staged so we'll tentatively schedule our relay migration tomorrow, assuming we don't drink too much tonight. Good evening!

Waking up to see we have access to our new bare metal blade server for the relay. CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2690v2 ( 10 cores / 20 threads @ 3.00 GHz ) RAM: 64GB DDR3 ECC I usually run Debian on servers, but maybe today's the day to put NixOS on a server. Hmm. Good morning

A data center outage is in progress, the relay may be unavailable for a bit. We'll be back asap.

Running @Habla News https://news.bitcoiner.social/

We have opened the gates again. Public relay write access is available, with some restrictions intended to inhibit spam. All existing premium users of bitcoiner.social retain unrestricted write access. Current policies are experimental and subject to change. Big thanks to @offchain.pub for testing some of them out in advance! If you operate a broadcasting service, just provide us a stable source address to exclude from our rate limits.

For those asking, our relay is temporarily private while we work on a new sustainability model. Aiming for a mixure of free or very inexpensive relay of notes (and other stuff). Most of the work up to now has been about making the existing relay faster and more stable. No point in charging for services if they suck, afterall! Our dev guy is working through a backlog trying to get to this.

The mempool is a layer cake: That's the one-week chart. Monthly looks pretty similar. You know what this means!

We just started running snort on bitcoiner.social Now you can link directly to nostr events on this relay via our snort instance, such as your profile page: https://snort.bitcoiner.social/p/npub1an3nz7lczcunpdw6ltjst94hgzcxpppnk7zk3zr2nfcj4yd96kdse6twjd Big thanks to @Snort