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-# Checkpoint — NIP-05 identifiers (2026-08-23)
+# Checkpoint — Note publish latency trim (2026-08-24)
+
+A stopping point you can return to if this session is closed. Everything below was
+verified green at the moment this file was written.
+
+## Where things are
+
+- Project: `/home/avi/Projects/Nostr_Keynctr`
+- Git repo: `master` @ `b001b3c` ("Trim note publish latency: skip global
+  connection wait, parallel sends, 6s cap"). Before it: `2ad054e` (checkpoint),
+  `045fa47` (NIP-05), `cb23a5e` (metadata latency trim), `4d70b25` (concurrent IPC).
+- Working tree is **clean** apart from this checkpoint update, which is committed right after.
+
+## What was completed
+
+1. **Diagnosed a slow/failing publish (2026-08-24, `b001b3c`).** User reported a
+   10+ s note publish with two relay failures (`relay.snort.social` "Not
+   connected", `relay.nostr.band` "did not respond in time"). Live probing of the
+   user's relays showed:
+   - The note itself **did land** on nos.lol, nostr.l484.com, relay.primal.net,
+     soloco.nl (why phoenix.social showed it). Kind-0 metadata ("Boo" + photo)
+     is on those relays too — Primal/Iris visibility is third-party indexing lag
+     or their differing relay sets, not lost data.
+   - `wss://relay.damus.io` is **down** (HTTP 503) and `wss://relay.nostr.band`
+     **times out on the WebSocket handshake** right now.
+   - Root cause of the stall: the *note* path still had the pattern removed from
+     the metadata path in `cb23a5e` — a global `wait_for_connection(10s)` that
+     burned its full timeout whenever any single relay was unreachable, then
+     sequential per-relay sends (15s timeout each).
+2. **Fix (`b001b3c`)** — `src/publish.rs` now mirrors `src/profiles.rs`:
+   - No global connection wait (`send_event` waits for each relay's writable
+     state itself).
+   - Sends run in parallel via `tokio::task::JoinSet`; per-relay timeout cut
+     15s → 6s, so worst case ≈ 6 s regardless of how many relays are dead.
+   - Failure reporting unchanged (per-relay concise error + technical detail).
+
+## Commits added most recently
+
+- `b001b3c` Trim note publish latency: skip global connection wait, parallel sends, 6s cap
+
+## Verification commands run (all green)
+
+Rust (repo root):
+
+```
+cargo test            # 102 passed; 0 failed
+cargo clippy --all-targets   # only pre-existing warnings in src/profiles.rs
+cargo fmt --check     # clean
+cargo build --release # success
+```
+
+Frontend (`frontend/`) — untouched by this change but re-run:
+
+```
+npm test              # 14 files, 84 tests passed
+npm run typecheck     # clean
+npm run lint          # 0 errors
+npm run format:check  # clean
+npm run build         # vite build success
+npm run electron:build  # tsc electron main success
+```
+
+## How to use / reproduce
+
+GUI: `cd ~/Projects/Nostr_Keynctr/frontend && npm start`, compose a note,
+publish. Expect ~1–6 s even when some relays are dead; failures are listed
+per-relay under the composer.
+
+CLI:
+
+```bash
+B=~/Projects/Nostr_Keynctr/target/release/keynectr
+$B publish "hello"        # text note as active profile
+```
+
+## Notes & next steps
+
+- **Relay health (checked 2026-08-24):** damus.io returning 503; nostr.band WS
+  handshake times out. Consider disabling nostr.band until it recovers, and
+  adding healthy high-traffic relays (e.g. offchain.pub, nostr.mom) so clients
+  whose default sets don't include nos.lol/primal.net can see your notes.
+- Profile/photo on Primal: metadata + notes are on relay.primal.net; if Primal
+  still shows nothing later, re-check via primal.net (their crawler indexes with
+  delay). Iris/Yakihonne need the note on relays *they* read.
+- Pre-existing clippy warnings in `src/profiles.rs` remain (drop of reference,
+  unused `delete_profile`).
+- Candidate next features: banner/about fields in the edit UI.
+
+---
+
+# Older checkpoint — NIP-05 identifiers (2026-08-23)
 
 A stopping point you can return to if this session is closed. Everything below was
 verified green at the moment this file was written.