Popular reads where the reactions are: ditto, nos.lol, primal, ours

Measured: ditto held 94% of distinct reactions (and keeps a month of
them); damus capped asks at ~300, pruned in a day and added nothing.
Everything (raw firehose) gets its own list without damus (empty answer
to a bare kind-1 ask) or ditto (~30% Mostr-bridged posts). A saved list
equal to the old or current defaults follows the defaults.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011bvzKaZosXGHkigcGcSzAR

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/features/messages.js b/src/features/messages.js
index e592827..3a11c60 100644
--- a/src/features/messages.js
+++ b/src/features/messages.js
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import { loadMediaIndex, saveMediaIndex, wipeMediaIndex } from '../media-cache.j
 import { mergeFeedWindow } from '../feed-window.js';
 import { createThreadStore } from '../thread-cache.js';
 import { createFeedCache, FEED_CACHE_POSTS, FEED_SEED_POSTS } from '../feed-cache.js';
-import { PUBLIC_FEED_RELAYS, popularCandidates } from '../popular-feed.js';
+import { POPULAR_RELAYS, FIREHOSE_RELAYS, popularCandidates } from '../popular-feed.js';
 import { makeSearcher, resultRows, fallbackAvatar, warmSearch, punkImageUrl, punkSmallUrl, primalCache } from '../recipient-search.js';
 import { getNetwork } from '../api.js';
 import { decodeBolt11 } from '../ark/lightning.js';
@@ -4413,7 +4413,7 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
     const br = st().builtinRelays || {};
     return [
       { id: FOLLOWING, name: t('feedFollowingName'), follows: true, builtin: true, relays: br[FOLLOWING] || [] },
-      { id: EVERYTHING, name: t('feedPopular'), follows: false, authors: [], packs: [], topics: [], all: true, curated: true, builtin: true, relays: br[EVERYTHING] || [] },
+      { id: EVERYTHING, name: t('feedPopular'), follows: false, authors: [], packs: [], topics: [], all: true, curated: true, builtin: true, relays: oldPopularDefault(br[EVERYTHING]) ? [] : br[EVERYTHING] || [] },
       ...st().feeds];
   };
   function feedDef(id = curFeedId) {
@@ -4531,10 +4531,9 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
   // Popular relays that answer a bare "everything" query (probed 2026-09-27;
   // paid/search relays like nostr.wine and nostr.band answer nothing and are
   // left out). The firehose reads a few of them by default.
-  const RELAY_PICKS = ['wss://relay.coinos.io', 'wss://relay.damus.io', 'wss://nos.lol', 'wss://relay.primal.net', 'wss://relay.snort.social',
+  const RELAY_PICKS = ['wss://relay.coinos.io', 'wss://relay.ditto.pub', 'wss://relay.damus.io', 'wss://nos.lol', 'wss://relay.primal.net', 'wss://relay.snort.social',
     'wss://nostr.mom', 'wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social', 'wss://eden.nostr.land', 'wss://nostr.land', 'wss://nostr.oxtr.dev',
     'wss://relay.nostrplebs.com', 'wss://offchain.pub', 'wss://nostr21.com', 'wss://relay.nostr.net', 'wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net'];
-  const FIREHOSE_RELAYS = PUBLIC_FEED_RELAYS;
   const normRelay = (u) => {
     let x = String(u || '').trim();
     if (!x) return null;
@@ -4584,7 +4583,7 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
         }
       } catch {} // relay path also covers snapshots with no posts in this language
     }
-    const relays = feedRelaysOr(def, FIREHOSE_RELAYS);
+    const relays = feedRelaysOr(def, POPULAR_RELAYS);
     const wide = [...new Set([...relays, ...NOTE_RELAYS])];
     let until = extra.until != null && c.popUntil ? c.popUntil - 1 : undefined;
     let got = false;
@@ -5211,8 +5210,17 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
   // Forget a feed's state so it is rebuilt; a fetch still in flight for the
   // old one lands nowhere (it would otherwise fill the orphan, not the new).
   const dropFeedState = (id) => { const c = feedStates.get(id); if (c) c.stopped = true; feedStates.delete(id); };
+  // Popular's defaults before 2026-10-04: a list saved that matches them
+  // exactly was the defaults, kept by an edit, and follows the new ones.
+  function oldPopularDefault(list) {
+    const OLD_POPULAR = ['wss://relay.coinos.io', 'wss://relay.damus.io', 'wss://nos.lol', 'wss://relay.primal.net'];
+    return Array.isArray(list) && list.length === OLD_POPULAR.length && OLD_POPULAR.every((r) => list.includes(r));
+  }
   function setFeedRelays(def, relays) {
     relays = [...new Set(relays.map(normRelay).filter(Boolean))].slice(0, 12);
+    // the usual list, picked by hand, is no list of one's own
+    const usual = usualRelays(def);
+    if (usual && relays.length === usual.length && usual.every((r) => relays.includes(r))) relays = [];
     for (const r of relays) { try { resetRelay(r); } catch {} } // chosen by hand: tried again even if it was sick
     if (def.builtin) { const s = st(); s.builtinRelays = { ...(s.builtinRelays || {}), [def.id]: relays }; save(s); }
     else if (adhocFeeds.has(def.id)) def.relays = relays;
@@ -5223,7 +5231,7 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
     // the address bar carries the relays of a feed that came from a URL
     if (adhocFeeds.has(def.id) && ui.chatOpen && ui.msgView === 'feed') { try { history.replaceState(history.state, '', feedPath(def) || '/'); } catch {} }
   }
-  const usualRelays = (def) => (def.all ? FIREHOSE_RELAYS : (feedAuthors(def).length ? null : TOPIC_RELAYS));
+  const usualRelays = (def) => (def.curated ? POPULAR_RELAYS : def.all ? FIREHOSE_RELAYS : (feedAuthors(def).length ? null : TOPIC_RELAYS));
   function relayPanel(def) {
     const e = ui.feedRelayEdit;
     const custom = feedRelays(def);