Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
Frames sparked a ton of creativity and showcased what a composable social feed could look like. Frames v2 were a completely new standard that combined in feed interactivity with fully-fledged web applications. The term itself has become confusing since it refers to multiple things within Farcaster. It is also unrecognizable to developers outside the ecosystem. One idea is to Frames -> Mini Apps. This will reduce term confusion and make it legible to huge ecosystem of developers working on applications in ecosystems like Telegram and World. What say you?
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six
@six
Drop the 'Mini'. Just Apps. It's cleaner
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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
yea generally agree mini kinda sucks, the consideration here are - everyone else already uses mini - likely necessary to diminutize in some way to keep the Apple / Google lords happy
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
people will adapt quickly Farcaster Apps will speak to non-farcaster users better than mini apps would mini limits perceived function of the app too
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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
the bigger problem is numba 2
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chuckstock
@chuckstock
the problem is you need a broader term that defines the category. because these don't just exist on farcaster. just apps is too general and i think is confusing and requires extra clarification, because they are dependent on parent apps. I like "embedded apps" but i think it's not as catchy as mini apps, and other ecosystems are already leaning into that vocab. i think this is a situation where you want to lean into the general consensus, as the we won't even really think of the word "mini" we'll just think of the paradigm of apps being embedded in other apps
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