Misty on Nostr: I have channels that close once every 4-8 weeks. I don't do anything. I hardly zap. ...

I have channels that close once every 4-8 weeks. I don't do anything. I hardly zap. They just close. To reopen another channel, I have to drop another 250k sats, which usually I do not have in the "Savings" balance at the time, causing me to spend more.

I don't want to deal with that anymore.

Since I've been here, I've spent hundreds on sats, mostly to just keep those channels open. That's plenty to keep a channel open (and have it stay open!).

I, personally, at this time, do not want to spend anymore money on this.

I think Alby is great for a lot of things and is ready to scale, but as a new user, having to drop 250k sats every time a channel needs to open (because they keep closing!) gets old.

I hope what you're saying will alleviate that going forward.

Another channel closed in the last 48 hours on my node, and my node health is sitting at 12%.

I don't care. I've already informed support that I'm not spending any more money at this time, even if it means not being able to send or receive zaps.

All I wanted to do was send and receive zaps when signing up for Nostr. That's it. Nothing more.

Spending a decent chunk of cash to keep channels open regularly when I'm not the one causing them to close is not part of the expected user experience when onboarding a new user.

There's a gap between the perceived ongoing experience and the current reality. I'm glad to hear Alby is still working to close that gap, but I'm on the edge of leaving.