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30 sats \ 12 replies \ @k00b 17 Feb \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
We communicate with your node (when you’re using nwc) by using a nostr relay -asking it to pay an invoice and asking it for an invoice that can be paid to it by someone else. Alby makes people use their relay which occasionally suffers from outages.
Basically we need a way to “control” your node and there’s not a lightning native way to do this (ie we can’t do this over our channel with you) so things like nwc create another protocol/layer/service that enables use to do this control. It’s another point of failure.
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Thanks
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Searched Alby on SN, sorted by recent, and found this thread. I too am experiencing an issue zapping with alby connected wallet
ETA: also seeing an issue connecting to them in their Alby Go app. Definitely something down there
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Same here. Unable to send/receive any zaps. Argh.
I had just recently started shilling albyhub since it's been a great experience since I set up albyhub in Sept 2024. Looks like I'll need to stop shilling it for now.
wss://relay.getalby.com/ looks to be the problem.
What can we do to avoid this and similar outages in the future? I can/will deploy more servers if need be. Downtime is unacceptable and I will go to crazy lengths to eliminate all single points of failure.
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Good news; my zaps are working again today.
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Mine too. I had dozens of failed zaps to go through and retry this morning.
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Seeing any problems with yours today? My computer froze up last night and did a very unpleasant reboot, then got stuck at a message with something like "installing updates... do not powercycle... 97% complete" ...for hours. I got tired of waiting for it to do it's thing, went to bed.
Woke today and found that everything I've tried so far is working ok, except for being able to send zaps using Alby firefox extension.
Logged into my albyhub directly and confirmed that I was able to send LN transactions out from there.
I'm still unable to get the Alby firefox extension to behave properly again regardless of fiddling with it for an hour. Smh.
Same here!
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