A couple months ago I paid for some relays but since then I've let the subscription lapse. I see this in my DMs since some of these send a sort of receipt or "intro to our relay" type message but given that I connected with these months ago, it'd be helpful to have better context on the situation. Props to Nostr.wine for putting quite a bit of information in DM.
I suppose some of this will be figured out as a unified interface in the client, with near automatic payment to keep up some of these relays. I guess for now I just want to tell those who are running paid relays to help users out by sending a receipt showing date, period for which payment was, sats paid, then a summary of how much data was sent/recieved. I'm not sure the relays software supports all this but more clarity is good.
The end result of my experiment was that paying for relays wasn't worth it except as a donation to help support costs. I didn't see any benefits in particular and perhaps this is another thing that clients can help with. A little star on a note that you only got through a single paid relay.
I'm going to go through and renew these to support the concept but I'm looking forward to there being more clarity and tangible benefits going forward.
How has your experience with paid relays been? What recommendations do you have to make the prospect more valuable?
Update: After trying to pay again for the lapsed relays. I found that two of them were one-time only payment so that's good. There are the three that would require additional payment and how it worked out:
filter.nostr.wine - this one seems most businesslike as they give a discount for longer term. Problem is there was no route for me from either Alby or Muun.
relay.orangepill.dev - The orangepill.dev site is great all around with helpful guides NIP-05 registration and they have two paid relays. This is the US-based one but it seems their payment gateway is down. Maybe that's BTCPayServer? Just a guess. In any case. 504 there so can't pay.
nostrich.land - This is giving me a cloudflare host not reachable error, so maybe this service is gone completely?
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