@hamishcampbell @hipsterelectron
Relay nodes or "servers" are interchangeable and can be used in parallel - as long as a single relay node is reachable, including one on localhost, you have access to the p2p network.
They are proxies to do p2p on behalf of your browser
Here is the preview
https://trulynotafan.github.io/p2p-news-app/
...not much to see yet - and while it might not seem like it, we are getting quite close to completion馃檪
Of course - we'll "make it pretty" at some later point maybe, but yeah....