Warpcast

Semi-regular Warpcast annoyances thread

If you were BDFOWF, what would you have us work on? 

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Already on the list but lower priority for now:
- Pinned casts on user profiles
- Better image support
- GIF keyboard in app

Mobile doesn't eat monstrous amounts of data

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Animated PFPs like yours are the culprit. If we turn them off, data usage would go way down. :)

Would be really cool to have a low data mode which turns off animations by default, only shipping a single frame to the client

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We will likely just remove animated pfps since they are the source of crashes, esp. on android

But this is one of your only moats

I know the saying is “kill your darlings”
But

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Adds gigabytes of data usage per month + crashes middle to low end Android devices.

Starts to become a lot of engineering and doesn't meaningfully increase the number of users

Add some kind of cache system? Or as others have said, an opt out option for users at the client level

But you’re thinking of forcing that on everyone by default?

a bit of post-processing to grab the first frame of an animation and switch it for data-saving mode?