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If you're making a Farcaster client, please add the option for users to set the hub address they want.
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As much as this is an ideal, it’s impractical to hope clients will abide by this. This is only evident when you actually try and build a successful client. In a crowded, clients compete for differentiation. You can’t build a differentiated product on commoditized APIs alone.
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From the discussion so far, it seems that direct connection to a hub (or with an installable a backend component) would be an extraordinary feature that differentiates and app from all the rest :-) Something for devs to take into consideration.
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Manan
@manan
Agreed. In general, we’ve thought hard about frontend only clients on farcaster and it would be amazing to enable that. The protocol just isn’t that complicated today to have a need for that.
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Manan
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There needs to be a general purpose compute attached tightly to the protocol that will unlock the need for such a dev platform but then again as a product-led protocol, it needs to stem from user demand vs. developer demand.
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BTW, let's consider Gmail, which is a beloved example in here. I don't remember any user asking for AJAX and javascript-based apps in 2004. You clicked a link, the browser loaded a page. If you wanted an app-like experience, you wrote java applets of flash. Dev demand is also a powerful force.
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I understand your point, shared by most devs here. I'm just trying to a) to create demand and b) to add this parameter to the design and decision process of app devs. And maybe find some solutions.
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