Celebrating the experimental launch of hubs.neynar.com

Neynar

Farcaster Dev Call starts in a little over 20 minutes. We'll be discussing: 

- Storage Extension
- Hub Reliability 
- SIWF 

and more

https://warpcast.notion.site/Aug-15-2024-ff455e08880c47dcb59123a0747cac08?pvs=74

🧵 taking live notes from the 8/15 dev call!

🧵 taking live notes from the 8/15 dev call!

https://warpcast.com/v/0x4cc4aae8

Warpcast

Message Broadcasting:
- status.warpcast.com — having issues with job broadcasting
- /neynar <> /warpcast sync — issues with ingestion for certain message types, working on shuttle improvements so /neynar can migrate
- hub performance issues — seeing grpc timeouts, long time to writes on /warpcast hubs under heavy load investigating issues

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Storage Extension:
- FIP: Storage Extension -- https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/191
- Goal is to make it easier for users to stay on FC
- Increasing storage duration for all existing users by 1 year
- Reducing size of new storage units going forward
- Rollout shortly — no impact to existing users or devs, hubs need to upgrade

Sign In with Farcaster -- cc @dwr.eth and @horsefacts.eth 
- Great feedback that SIWF is helpful & being used, but focused on reliability from ~10-15% of people who can't scan the QR code
- Want to get reliability up before adding scope(eg. support other wallets like Supercast)
- Small changes: shorten SIWF URL to simplify QR code, shorten channel tokens to 8 characters(could even have magic link code-like UI)

More on the new SIWF changes:

Sign In with Farcaster -- cc @dwr.eth and @horsefacts.eth 
- Great feedback that SIWF is helpful & being used, but focused on reliability from ~10-15% of people who can't scan the QR code
- Want to get reliability up before adding scope(eg. support other wallets like Supercast)
- Small changes: shorten SIWF URL to simplify QR code, shorten channel tokens to 8 characters(could even have magic link code-like UI)

More on the new SIWF changes: https://warpcast.notion.site/Improve-SIWF-70d5b730f2cd4679bfd5b36abc72cfb9

Explore Page
- Making it easier for developers to get users, has been great so far
- Collecting data on where to focus next, lot of things can add here(even log users into the app directly)
View the Explore Page(only on Warpcast mobile rn):

Explore Page
- Making it easier for developers to get users, has been great so far
- Collecting data on where to focus next, lot of things can add here(even log users into the app directly)
View the Explore Page(only on Warpcast mobile rn): https://warpcast.com/~/explore/apps

Now onto Warpcast Updates:
Feed Improvements

- thinking about how the construction of your feed changes as you add more/less users
- one thing observed: if you follow someone who cast a lot, that/those high volume users show up a bit too much in your feed, becomes self reinforcing
- rolling out experiment to boost content you're not always seeing, if successful will roll out to a broader group of users
- power badge deprecation: out of app and sunset at end of Aug. found it's not a great measure for priority notifications etc, have better systems in place for this(instead of identify by power badge, start with weeding spammy users out)
^ /neynar is continuing to run a power badge API that can be used

DC Improvements
- Performance and feature improvements
- Once get to an even more stable point, then can think more about APIs/interop etc

and that's a wrap! linking back to the start of the thread 🫡

and that's a wrap! linking back to the start of the thread 🫡

https://warpcast.com/dylsteck.eth/0xa83080f6