Farcaster

Is there a Farcaster "testnet" 

I'm out here testing in production like a fool

Lead Clank @clankpad || Midwest mom in a California dad bod || Ruthlessly pro Farcaster

Yes, the protocol allows you to broadcast messages for the "testnet" network (ID = 2 https://github.com/farcasterxyz/hub-monorepo/blob/85016761b31f5771420858e478fe470ad2790e6c/packages/core/src/protobufs/generated/message.ts#L192-L193) 

Whether or not people are running hubs on that network is another story. We currently don't run/maintain any testnet hubs (though we have in the past).

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@rish @manan is a dev environment as a service something you guys have thought about with @neynar?

A dev friendly farcaster sandbox would actually enable our team to build a more stable staging environment instead of leaving FC features untested, which always makes us a bit anxious lol

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A dedicated neynar test hub would be super helpful - same api setup and rate limits as prod, but in an isolated environment where we can freely test

Even just that would be a big improvement for us!

what kind of things would you want in this dev environment?

I've tested with an alt before and found it to be a time consuming workflow - switching between accounts on WC is especially painful since it kicks you out on both desktop + mobile and requires recovery phrase each time (at least for me)

Because of this friction, we often end up testing with our main accounts on our local dev/staging environment, which isn't ideal since:
- we can't easily test multi-user interactions and batch operations that require multiple accounts with different states
- alt accounts don't have realistic network data (followers, neynar score, etc) making it hard to simulate real user scenarios and catch edge cases without stubbing in our db beforehand

A proper testnet isn't mission critical but would let us better test these scenarios more thoroughly and make the dev experience on farcaster a lot smoother overall

Also why leave them untested instead of testing with a test account in prod? That’s what we do