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The relay explorer interface on relay.tools , an explanation..
The original goal of this interface was to provide a moderation portal into a single relay. While you can also moderate relay.tools relays from any client that can post a reaction, many clients have a hard time displaying a single relay feed or posting to a single relay..
With that in mind, when browsing a global feed, you want to have full-control over what is loaded. This interface ONLY loads from a single relay. It will not, for example, go out to other relays even to fetch a profile. It will load profile pictures though, if the profile is found.
The main view is just text, and all links and images are parsed out, and can be displayed when clicking into a post. The images will not be automatically loaded, unless you click "show images". Neither will link previews. Again, if you've spent a lot of time in global, you would probably appreciate this feature. This gives you the ability to inspect a link before clicking it or making any kind of connection to a site. Same for images, I like to know what image host the image is on, and etc before I display the image (was it nostr.build? was it, some random site?) This is all very useful information when browsing a feed of all posts on a relay and prevents you from getting as shocked as you would be if this all loaded automatically.
The kind explorer shows how many other kinds in the last 24 hours the relay has absorbed, so you can view and moderate these as well, and try to have an overall view of what's happening on the relay.
I've been spending time making this look better on safari mobile, and firefox mobile.. chrome was being too easy on me. That's all for now, I hope you found this explanation useful, and I'll be doing more in the future.
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2024-08-04 16:59:12Event JSON
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