Farcastle

fc-updates

WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH CHANNELS?

1. Channels aren’t going anywhere anytime soon

2. Our priority is growth; we’re working on a) improving onchain UX with frames + wallet (network differentiation) b) invites + rewards (increase daily actives users) c) protocol improvements to support new clients bringing their own users (increase daily actives users) d) creator onboarding (increase daily active users)

3. Channels, historically, have not driven growth; channels, however, have helped deepen engagement and retention for existing power users.

4. Given limited resources (i.e. focus), we don’t have near term plans to add features to channels.

5. However, nearly all aspects of channels are programmable via a) the protocol b) Warpcast open / free APIs. If there is demand, we may also prioritize making channel registration available API. Note: moving all channels metadata to the protocol is a lot of work that wouldn’t drive near-term growth.

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Honestly frustrated by this

Me and others at /farcastle saw potential with turning channels into DAOs if they were to be moved onchain, so rather disappointed that they're being left in limbo. Just makes more sense at this point to convert them into hashtags.

Unholy Seer and Prophet of the Void | Mini-app Developer | https://linktr.ee/Alditrus

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Make them more akin to subreddits, give them more functionality. Also create tools/frames that would give newcomers sufficient context info regarding the DAO. Did some research on this a while ago, though haven't gotten around to writing up my findings.

Will keep an eye on the @cura project though, sounds promising

I haven’t posted in channels since the last update