Spent part of the weekend working on getting a relay up and running. All of the tutorials I found were for stacks that don’t match what I’m trying to do, so there was some guesswork involved. Installing the Docker container was fine… but then what? Took forever to figure out how to configure it. I’m not sure if the config.toml file was placed correctly. There’s no way to monitor the relay and watch what it’s doing.

I’m sure part of the problem was me holding things wrong—I only joined Nostr a couple weeks ago—but if you’re asking about ways to make it harder for new relay operators to hold it wrong, those were the pain points last night.