The hour glass visual was excellent (believe that's in the 2nd vid?). Probably the most helpful way of explaining channel capacity that I've seen.

Thanks, I watched the videos and about 13 minutes into the second one, the whole inbound liquidity issue came up.

I'm still not really getting it, because the amount I was requesting to come into my Phoenix wallet was way less than half of the inbound liquidity. I finally got it to work with an invoice of 1000, where the inbound liquidity was around 8000.

I wonder if things would make more sense if I tried another wallet, just to have a comparison between 2 self-custody lightening wallets. Like maybe Mutiny or something?