diff --git a/src/AppRouter.tsx b/src/AppRouter.tsx
index fa4e1ac8..b47b7a9b 100644
--- a/src/AppRouter.tsx
+++ b/src/AppRouter.tsx
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ export function AppRouter() {
           <Route path="/ai-chat" element={<AIChatPage />} />
           <Route path="/world" element={<WorldPage />} />
           <Route path="/books" element={<BooksPage />} />
-          <Route path="/relay/*" element={<RelayPage />} />
+          <Route path="/r/*" element={<RelayPage />} />
           <Route path="/i/*" element={<ExternalContentPage />} />
 
           {/* NIP-19 route for npub1, note1, naddr1, nevent1, nprofile1 */}
diff --git a/src/components/NoteContent.tsx b/src/components/NoteContent.tsx
index bfd423e8..dea83282 100644
--- a/src/components/NoteContent.tsx
+++ b/src/components/NoteContent.tsx
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ export function NoteContent({
             return (
               <Link
                 key={i}
-                to={`/relay/${token.url}`}
+                to={`/r/${token.url}`}
                 className="text-primary hover:underline break-all"
                 onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
               >
diff --git a/src/pages/RelayPage.tsx b/src/pages/RelayPage.tsx
index 5addadd2..84f21532 100644
--- a/src/pages/RelayPage.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/RelayPage.tsx
@@ -86,22 +86,22 @@ function useRelayFeed(relayUrl: string | undefined, kinds: number[]) {
 
 export function RelayPage() {
   const { config } = useAppContext();
-  const { '*': urlParam } = useParams();
+  const { '*': rawParam } = useParams();
   const { feedSettings } = useFeedSettings();
   const { muteItems } = useMuteList();
 
   const kinds = getEnabledFeedKinds(feedSettings).filter((k) => !isRepostKind(k));
 
-  // Reconstruct the relay URL from the wildcard param
+  // Support both encoded URLs (/r/wss%3A%2F%2F...) and bare URLs (/r/wss://...).
   const relayUrl = useMemo(() => {
-    if (!urlParam) return undefined;
-    // If the param already has a protocol, use it as-is
-    if (urlParam.startsWith('wss://') || urlParam.startsWith('ws://')) {
-      return urlParam;
+    if (!rawParam) return undefined;
+    // If the wildcard param has no "://", it's encoded — decode it.
+    const url = rawParam.includes('://') ? rawParam : decodeURIComponent(rawParam);
+    if (url.startsWith('wss://') || url.startsWith('ws://')) {
+      return url;
     }
-    // Otherwise, prepend wss://
-    return `wss://${urlParam}`;
-  }, [urlParam]);
+    return `wss://${url}`;
+  }, [rawParam]);
 
   // Derive a display hostname from the URL
   const hostname = useMemo(() => {
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ export function RelayPage() {
     description: info?.description ?? `Events from ${hostname}`,
   });
 
-  if (!urlParam) {
+  if (!rawParam) {
     return <NotFound />;
   }