add "mute" OK=false status for no-op ephemeral events

[fiatjaf]

This will probably make RPC and real-time communication use cases like NIP-46, NIP-47 etc much better, as the client sending the message will be able to learn instantly that their message wasn't read by anyone, instead of having to wait for some arbitrary amount of time and cancel the request because the other side is taking too long to answer.

This is implemented in https://github.com/fiatjaf/khatru.

[staab]

This is fine, with the proviso that if the relay handles the event itself (like with #1079) it should not send a mute reply.

[vitorpamplona]

mute is a weird word choice, though.

How about ignored, abandoned, dropped, or discarded?

[fiatjaf]

I agree it's weird, but I couldn't think of anything better. I guess ignored is better, the others are also weird as they could imply different meanings. I'm fine with whatever.

[vitorpamplona]

How about unclaimed?

[mikedilger]

How about no consumers?

+1 on this idea

[greenart7c3]

no consumers feels better

[eskema]

feel it shoud be a single word, how about unrelayed?

[fiatjaf]

What do you have against ignored?

[eskema]

ignoring to me means it was seen but chose to ignore. in this case, it wasn't seen, so it couldn't have been ignored. you can't ignore something if you don't know it exists.. it shouldn't matter much though so I'm fine with whatever

[fiatjaf]

We should have gone with numbers.

unrelayed makes sense, but feels redundant, as all other types of error also imply "unrelayed".

Since we can't do more than one word I guess mute is the best then.

[staab]

We still could, just use 93692635: this message wasn't relayed because no one was listening for it

No, but mute is fine

[vitorpamplona]

I like well-defined, extremely specific error codes. 93692635: ... works for me.

[mikedilger]

I read "We should have gone with numbers" to mean something like "relayed to 7 subscribed clients" and then use 0 when nobody was listening. But I think this doesn't fit into the protocol as specified.

[fiatjaf]

Please, gentlemen, can I merge?

[staab]

Yes, this is handled in flotilla