It's working again, or at least it was working yesterday I managed to push 2 tx and to my surprise there were still empty spaces minutes after the hours, enough time for me being lazy to grab my phone and do screenshots on it rather than printscreens


I still think it's a mix of situations
- viabtc blocking maybe free transactions if they haven't mined a block in x hours
- somebody clearly abusing the free feature

This is the block viabtc mined after me failing two times in a row to even see the free counter:
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000000a7f3dd29bb0c0259a2b6cdbe4d400a1960d829018127
It has 300kvb of 5sat/b tx , ironically, that contained viabtc payments, so I can't really be angry while getting paid and denied a cheaper fee but those ordinals...