nostr:nprofile1qqsrxra3gv0lnkxz2pcxh0xuq9k4f9dr7azwq3aypqtnay4w0mjzmtqve7c2c Thanks for responding,
It is difficult now a year later to remember which/what channel it was (EDIT: the link in the e-mail took me to Megalith LSP). All I know is there was no warning at all, and no sats have re-appeared in my self-hosted Alby Hub under Node as the e-mail said it should. So the point is then that my Lightning Wallet was never under my control from what I'm seeing.
So without warning the channel is gone, and all my sats. I used the network every day so this cannot be from "not being used".
Sadly, this is going to be a real showstopper for any other users of the Lightning Network and/or Alby.
I'm a computer programmer and understand tech - I really cannot see how this will ever attract ordinary users. The mail I got came from "Your Alby Team" informing me the channel was closed. So it is true that maybe the real issue is with the channel - no idea which channel now, and certainly don't want to get involved with other channels if this is how it is going to go.
Despite having a self-hosted Alby Hub, this goes to show I was never in control of my sats at all. Otherwise they would have showed up there still. It was certainly connected every single day, as it was being used to authenticate my access to Nostr. Now I don't even know if I'll be able to access Nostr tomorrow after rebooting my computer. This may be the end of my access altogether.
Yes, I see now from Megalith LSP there is this comment on the Alby guides: "Your channel stays open longer if you send or receive at least one payment per 30 days". So despite daily posting I obviously never received any sats for the last month, and I had not sent either, so the channel just got closed and I have lost my sats. No warning, and no value whatsoever in actually self-hosting the Alby Hub. I'm certainly not going to burn my fingers again on the Lightning network. This has just never happened to me with Bitcoin - my offline wallets retain my find no matter what (that is proper control). The self-hosting was a farce (my self-hosted Hub wallet still shows 0 stats).
