Rabble on Nostr: Hey did you know most relays don’t support the nip-50 search which means that ...

Hey did you know most relays don’t support the nip-50 search which means that search isn’t working well on Nostr? We need to make search better and perhaps help users make sure they’re connected to at least some search supported relays. Otherwise nostr feels broken and empty.

I think this is because strfry is so good at most relay tasks it has come to dominate, but it doesn’t do search. That’s not what it’s optimized for.

quoting note1v3s…nlrg

In many of the “what should Nostr do next” threads over the past few weeks some users have noted search isnt great across Nostr.

This morning our team looked up the relays that support NIP50 - the search NIP and there are some but very few of the major ones folks connect to support search.

We have built our relays on strfry which prioritizes speedy return of npubs rather than indexing.

Curious if folks are relying on something other than NIP50 for search?

Also curious what is or is not motivating implementation of NIP50 amongst relay managers?