Neynar

Celebrating the experimental launch of hubs.neynar.com

Farcaster Devs

Farcaster Dev Call starts ~12 hours from now  at 10am PT! We'll discuss: 

- Channels v2, coming this week 
- Mini-apps
- Snapchain 
- Location on protocol 

Dial in details: https://warpcast.notion.site/Oct-3-2024-1146a6c0c1018055a026e6a60b92bd4c?pvs=74

ga, taking live notes from today's biweekly /fc-devs call!

seems like the main agenda is to go over the top priorities, which are 
- growth(through frames and channels)
- direct casts
- reduce sign up costs
- hubs
- fip: locations
- sign in with farcaster

will run a dev call next week too and then back to the biweekly schedule(thrown off bc of dev day last week)

ga, taking live notes from today's biweekly /fc-devs call!

seems like the main agenda is to go over the top priorities, which are 
- growth(through frames and channels)
- direct casts
- reduce sign up costs
- hubs
- fip: locations
- sign in with farcaster

will run a dev call next week too and then back to the biweekly schedule(thrown off bc of dev day last week)

https://warpcast.com/v/0x2b5a21b8

Here’s a quick behind-the-scenes summary of all these variations and how we arrived at the final design. 

We went through 3 phases in this process:

✨Phase 1✨ 
Main priority was updating channel labels (low risk, as we could always revert to this version if Phase 2 didn’t work out).

We tested a few variations throughout the week and ultimately decided that chips were the best option. During this process made minor adjustments to dark mode colors and said goodbye display names (and emojis)

Growth:
- Frames
    - Mini apps are out(current docs here, will get re-labeled: https://warpcast.notion.site/Composer-Actions-7f2b8739ee8447cc8a6b518c234b1ee)
- Channels
    - New UI rolled out, new version coming soon
    - Focus is on onboarding
    - Channel design iterations: https://warpcast.com/blockheim/0x9c4b647f

building products /neynar, hacking /farhack, yapping /dylan | dylansteck.com

Direct Casts:
- Programmable DC’s are growing
- Short term: Improve programmability
- Long term: plan for interoperability
    - Probably 2025, also thoughts around an official SDK and what kind of LEGOs they might be able to give devs here

Reducing Sign Up Costs:
- Target is $1 signups by next year
    - Just cut it to $2 a few weeks ago
- Blocking issue is helping apps overcome spam
- Warpcast can help subsidize costs if you are onboarding users, reach out

FIP: Locations

- Location on user profile: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/196
    - Opt-in, would use long/lat coordinates under the hood to show your location across clients
- Location on casts: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/197
    - Uses same geo lat/long construct from the FIP above, but would go in a cast’s embed message

Sign in with Farcaster

- Web is next priority
- Multi-client is after
- Doesn't seem this is the main focus for the team though rn, Merkle team is mostly focused on(on this order): channels, frames/mini apps, programmable DCs, hubs scalability, location

Hubs: 

- Tackling ongoing stability issues this week — out of memory issues, backend traffic
- Want to lock down a design in the next few weeks and then can have a clearer roadmap from there
- Sync needs a redesign — snapchain overview out this week (discussion)