unclebobmartin on Nostr: Some clients, like more-speech, send out queries for messages using the "since" ...

Some clients, like more-speech, send out queries for messages using the "since" filter, and set the "since" time to be the time of the last message they stored during a previous run. So, in effect, more-speech pops into the message stream for awhile, gathers up some messages, stores them, and then exits. Upon restarting, it asks the relays for messages with dates later than the last message it saved.

If a metadata message is sent by user xyz once, say, on January 1st, 2022; and then never again; and if a client, like more-speech, starts up for the first time on February 1st, and asks for all the messages that are one week old, it will never see the metadata for xyz.

It seems unlikely to me that the first time a client runs, it will pull back all messages since the beginning of time. Thus, it seems to me, that metadata should be transmitted on a fairly regular basis.

>From: Giszmo47 at 07/28/22 20:43:48 on wss://wlvs.space
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>Why does it matter when kind-0 metadata is sent?
>"Clients pop into the message stream"???
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>Clients query it and get whatever was sent last regardless of this being minutes ago or months ago. Relays store (sort of forever) and forward.