diff --git a/src/profiles.rs b/src/profiles.rs
index 5f542d4..35ed677 100644
--- a/src/profiles.rs
+++ b/src/profiles.rs
@@ -10,11 +10,9 @@ use crate::relays;
 use crate::settings::Settings;
 use crate::vault::{unix_timestamp, StoredProfile, Vault};
 
-/// How long to wait for relays to accept a connection attempt.
-const METADATA_CONNECT_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5);
 /// How long to wait for a single relay to accept the metadata event. Relays
 /// are sent to in parallel, so this caps the whole publish, not each relay.
-const METADATA_SEND_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(8);
+const METADATA_SEND_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(6);
 
 /// A safe view of a profile that contains no secret key material.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
@@ -342,7 +340,10 @@ async fn publish_metadata_async(
         let _ = client.add_relay(url.as_str()).await;
     }
     client.connect().await;
-    let _ = client.wait_for_connection(METADATA_CONNECT_TIMEOUT).await;
+    // No explicit wait for connections here: `send_event` waits for each relay
+    // to become writable itself, and the per-send timeout below already bounds
+    // the whole publish. Waiting for *all* relays first would burn the full
+    // timeout whenever a single relay is unreachable.
 
     // Send to every relay in parallel so one slow or dead relay cannot drag
     // the whole publish out to (relays x timeout).