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McBain
@mcbain
Is there a Farcaster "testnet" I'm out here testing in production like a fool
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Shane da Silva
@sds
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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Ben Adamsky 💭
@ba
@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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rish
@rish
Also why leave them untested instead of testing with a test account in prod? That’s what we do
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Ben Adamsky 💭
@ba
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
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rish
@rish
makes sense. how will warpcast account switching get solved by a testnet tho? have you tried account switching via supercast instead of warpcast? trying to think of ways you can work these issues immediately instead of waiting on testnet. also I am not sure a testnet will solve all the above issues (makes sense for a subset of them)
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Ben Adamsky 💭
@ba
Ideally a dedicated testnet env paired with a sandbox on the neynar site would replace having to test on WC entirely Yeah supercast has been my personal goto for testing, but a dashboard to go to debug, see endpoint activity, simulate farcaster actions, etc would be a 10x improvement for our dev flow Not expecting any immediate solves here ofc for however this would be incredibly valuable when we test things like mass dcs, notifications, etc
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