I'm going to start closing channels on the Podcast Index lightning node starting today. The $240/month is no longer self sustaining and we lose about $200 on the node every month. It won't stop anyone from boosting in a podcast. We just always kept the channels free as a service so now if you open your own channel to somewhere you might have to pay for it.

Our node's database is so humongous that all the normal tools (bos, rtl, etc) just error out. I'll be doing it from command line (lnd).