Warpcast

Minor annoyance: warpcast not optimized for low bandwidth, difficult to use on airplane wifi 

It’s 10000000% better and more performant vs a year ago, and likely not a priority, but wanted to share the feedback. Was hoping to get thru all my DCs on a flight but getting a lot of “no messages, yet” errors 🙏

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When I was paying by the MB in Japan I noticed how much of a data hog the app is. I seriously reduced my usage while I was there and had a lot of trouble uploading videos. 

Many many many people pay by the GB or MB outside of the US and many US centric folks forget this. 

For my the biggest issue wasn’t the cost, I could get a deal on data. It’s that I got capped on the network and literally couldn’t buy any more high speed data. Once I was capped the app was unusable unless I was on WiFi.

Introducing data usage settings on Warpcast (requires app store update)

By default we don't auto-play videos and we load lower-quality images on slow connections.

Now, you can enable this feature for cellular networks or to be always on.

More improvements in the works.

There's still more work to be done but we now support enabling data saving strategies when using a cellular network. Hope this helps.

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This is going to be awesome! I’ll report back when I’m in Japan in March!

There's still more work to be done but we now support enabling data saving strategies when using a cellular network. Hope this helps.

https://warpcast.com/gabrielayuso.eth/0x283a0cb6