This 3rd party plugin is about sending silent payments, not receiving.

How big of a thing is selling heat in the current mining industry?

What is your favourite wallet?
Do you use Lightning?

Electrum Wallet has a built-in marketplace for swap providers, rates are among the lowest available and it is trustless.
(electrum.org)

That shouldn't happen. Usually the flow is quite simple.

1. Deposit onchain funds.
2. Open channel and wait for confirmation.

Now the balance should be shown as lightning and you can send on lightning.
Maybe you had some Network issue making it seem like the funds disappeared, sounds weird.

May I ask what issues you encountered when trying LN in Electrum?

I use it :)

Then you'd miss out on all the bug fixes since the last release

its released now. See electrum.org

Soon™

No need to wait :) It already exists!

Maybe cln could be used together with the clboss plugin to automate node management and take away this burden, not sure if it fits the requirements for a robosats node though.

Very interesting, good to hear that there are only few dishonest users. Thanks for the insight.

Do you see attacks against coordinators, like DDoS, hacking attempts or something else?