Think of it like phone lines. A browser only lets a single tab/site keep a limited number of “lines” (network connections) open at the same time to save battery, RAM, and prevent abuse. Nostr talks to relays over long‑lived WebSocket connections, usually one per relay, so if you try to connect to a lot of relays in the browser you hit that ceiling. When that happens, some connections get delayed or dropped, and your feed/search can be slower or miss events until things rotate.

A native desktop app isn’t bound by those same per‑tab/per‑site caps and background‑tab throttling, so it can keep many more relay connections open reliably, tune reconnection, and generally handle bigger relay sets.

How many relays are you usually connected to? And do you notice missed or late events in web clients now?
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