Yeah, exactly. The reason being that it is inconsistent what relays can be connected to at a given time and the note doesn't exist on Amethyst, it exists on some relay or another.

The relays Amethyst can successfully connect to do factor in, though. It would be doing text search via your search relays. If the note isn't on the ones Amethyst was able to connect to, and is only on a search relay it could not connect to, then it won't find it.

There are all sorts of reasons that a client may not be able to connect to a relay besides it just being down. I won't say that it couldn't be a client performance issue, but most of the time inconsistencies on Nostr in general are due to not being connected to the same relays for one reason or another. No one's fault. Just the nature of working with multiple relays rather than a centralized server.

nostr is NOT ARCHIVE DB NOT EVEN needed also nobody cares who posted 2 years ago easy to do fake screenshot of old post also