Awesome project!

I'll look into alternatives. Google fonts are the default for Angular Material, the UI framework I used. I just didn't bother changing it.

Thanks bro!

Same with my phone haha

Thank you!

@DiscoPay Update on #4). The weighted mode for channel capacity has been added!

You need to change the line primitive dropdown from gl-line to line-mesh then you can change the width of the channels.

The other dropdown that shows up when selecting line-mesh will allow you to either have uniform linewidth (all of them are the same), or you can select channel capacity and the width will scale with the capacity.

Attenuation (similar to node attenuation). Lines get smaller the farther they are from the camera.

I appreciate the feedback.

I looked into that actually. Surprisingly it's more difficult than it should be to make the lines thicker due to limitations in webgl. It seems like people had a few tricks to get it to work, but there might be a performance cost. Will look into it probably later on.

I think hovering on the lines is for sure possible. I just didn't get around to implementing that yet. For now if you click on a node, you can look at the node properties pane and expand the connected_channels property to get info about them.

The donation link should be back up. I guess I need to work on making that more reliable too. Also thank you!

Hmm... not really sure what happened. Everything seemed to work, but I could not connect either. Restarting the instance seemed to fix it.

Working towards making the service more reliable

Yes! It is indeed a graph of the lightning network. Each lightning circle represents a node, and each line from one node to another represents a payment channel.

There are many different ways to draw this same graph, but with the approach I took I think it should minimize the distance between connected nodes.

The more connected you are the closer you are to the center of this graph.

Information about nodes is relayed throughout the network via a gossip protocol. So as long as there is at least one main connection to the network. The information from a distant node eventually makes it to all nodes on the network.

My understanding is it does this by basically by passing messages to and from your peers and then to/from your peer's peers and so on.

That's an interesting idea. It might be possible to expand this implementation to drawing graph generically. However even if I generalized this software, drawing something like the internet might have additional obstacles. With the internet there is a lot of private information that makes it difficult to do this same thing I have done for lightning. All the information collected here is publicly relayed throughout the lightning network. So you would probably have to be an Internet Service Provider to obtain information about the connection data for the internet.

Thanks for checking it out!

It shows all nodes on the network that are visible from my node.

I think if my node was more connected, it would be able to collect more data.

I ran this application against another node I have, and more nodes do show up with that node versus the one I'm hosting for the website.

Looking to improve this