npub1wf…3dgh9 on Nostr: Nostr should have also supported plain HTTP from the get go. Websockets are ...
Nostr should have also supported plain HTTP from the get go.
Websockets are unreliable under some conditions, and polling works just fine for a ton of usecases - and have more tooling making it even more accessible to newbs.
Big mistake. Probably not too late to add it though.
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2026-02-13 18:18:17 CETEvent JSON
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