Dan Romero on Warpcast

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Why haven't you added video to Warpcast? - Smells like stated vs. revealed preference - A lot of work to get right. Classic 95% straightforward to add and then the last 5% is another 90% work + ongoing maintenance. - We use Imgur for image hosting today, which offloads major compliance burden to an at-scale company.

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Useful evidence that might have us reconsider - Consistent, high-quality video content produced by very active Farcaster users off protocol. Content can be on YT, IG, TikTok, @unlonely - ~10% of Top 100 most engaged casts in a given week are links to video - A compelling novel social primitive using video

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I used to be “when video?”too but now I get it esp with channel # increase I want a calm Quality browsing experience not sensory overload a la short form videos😵‍💫

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embedding inline video player (not native upload) won't increase qDAU but likely will increase time spent in app, in case that is something y'all are focused on

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@androidsixteen.eth

Meta comment - I really dig this type of cast, ie. discussing how you've reasoned about a product decision. It's nice as a community to be able to see the sausage being made I wouldn't have considered the compliance burden (or moat), but that's a double-edge sword that you're wielding the right side of!

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imgur handles video https://warpcast.com/pugson/0xa78715

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This may be an unpopular opinion, but Video would be great and will (probably) eventually be necessary to have here, but how much would it actually contribute to new user growth and DAUs at this very point in time? Especially compared to the other things that your small team is working on? I don’t think a lot.

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Yea I’d agree with this. Also opportunity for a video client if there really is demand.

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Alex Loukissas 🍉

How about properly embedding links with og:video URLs? I don't think this is supported today, no?

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grant 🌈 🎩 🐸

Tbh something like audio spaces would be more fun? Or just podcasts Is that a regulatory headache, or just a DMCA one?

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Can't wait to post BasePaint timelapse videos here :) There gotta be a name for "A lot of work to get right. Classic 95% straightforward to add and then the last 5% is another 90% work + ongoing maintenance", definitely seen many of these situations in all sorts of projects.

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When i’m in my page, there no cast button to post. Can we add that?

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-not every platform needs every feature that ever other platform has

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As the founder of a content collective and lover of farcaster, it would be awesome to be able to embed YouTube videos here. Or even better— somehow embed our video NFTs hosted on @zora (via ipfs.) Bonus: with a mint button too 👀

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I like how you use the product to explain product decisions.

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I think most people who want video support on Warpcast would be more than happy to see video embed from other sources, like YouTube, IPFS, Arweave, etc. It’d be interesting to see what proportion of “wen video??” people mean “native video.” Probably a tiny proportion.

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if video is to be implemented one day, I'd rather have it like vine, 6 sec limit, longer than that it's short attention span doomscrolling for me

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