Add fallback relay: relay.nostrocket.org is down, app loads no data

[JeroenOnNostr]

Problem

The app at https://nostrocket.github.io/oxygen/ currently loads no data at all — wss://relay.nostrocket.org, the only entry in defaultRelays, is no longer operational:

• DNS still resolves to 45.77.143.197 and port 443 accepts TCP connections;
• but the host now presents a TLS certificate for an unrelated domain (CN=abdeel.me), which additionally expired on 2026-01-11;
• so every browser WebSocket connection fails during the TLS handshake and Oxygen never receives a single event.

It looks like the VPS behind relay.nostrocket.org was decommissioned or repurposed. (Issues are disabled on this repo, otherwise this diagnosis would be filed there.)

What changed

• Adds wss://nostrocket.descendant.io to defaultRelays, alongside the existing wss://relay.nostrocket.org — the original is kept so everything just works again if it comes back online.
• Points relayHint at nostrocket.descendant.io, since a hint pointing at a dead relay actively hurts event discovery. Happy to revert this line if you'd rather keep the old value.

The replacement relay

• wss://nostrocket.descendant.io — public relay (open reads and writes, no auth) on Cloudflare Workers with auto-renewing TLS, so a certificate expiry can't kill it again.
• Backfilled with all Nostrocket events still retrievable from public relays (relay.damus.io, relay.nostr.band, nos.lol, relay.primal.net, and others): problem events (1971/1972), consensus (2008/12008), rocket ignition (1031), identity tree (31009/1592), merit requests and votes (1602/1603), plus replies and deletes referencing the ignition event.
• NIP-11 limits raised (max_limit / default limit 5000) so Oxygen's no-limit subscriptions get the full event set.

If you'd prefer to run this under a nostrocket.org domain, we're happy to hand the deployment over or add your relay alongside — and more generally, more than one entry in defaultRelays means a single dead relay can't take the whole app down again.

Test

• npm install && npm run dev — the problem tracker renders the problem tree again, including the root problem d0afd68b5cafa58382edb38b7ac7feef229a916f22330922e4be6cd22193b1a5.
• Relay check: curl -H "Accept: application/nostr+json" https://nostrocket.descendant.io returns the relay's NIP-11 document.

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