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Weekly rewards are meant to support creators who spend their time and energy creating engaging content on Farcaster. We've seen some accounts try to trick the algo by coordinating engagement, and redirect rewards towards low effort or uninteresting content. We're making changes to fix this. 1. The algo will reward diverse weekly engagement. If you get two likes from different people, they'll give you more points than two likes from the same person. 2. The algo may reduce or eliminate points from some accounts based on heuristics (engaging with spammy accounts, only with a particular account, in time patterns that suggest coordination etc) These changes will roll out on Tuesday. For more details on how rewards work, see the page below. https://farcasterhq.notion.site/Farcaster-Creator-Rewards-1f56a6c0c101808f9225c5705ae88fcc
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A quick history of the Farcaster feed. Back in 2021, the first version of the feed just showed you every post, starting with the newest. There wasn't a way to unfollow! This was ok because we were just a 100 or so weird internet people who liked hanging out together. We added follows soon after, when someone started annoying someone else. This hurt new users quite a bit because they started with an empty feed and had to do a lot of work to make it good. So we picked the most active users each week and suggested they follow them when signing up. It was built in an incredibly simple way. Every time you loaded your app, we'd run a sql query to fetch the latest casts, hydrate the links and images and serve you a feed. At some point, we moved this into a background job so it would run every 30 seconds, and slow down if you stopped checking the app.
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What is the Farcaster team working on? 1. Stability - a platform upgrade introduced a lot of mobile bugs. we're fixing them as fast as we can. 2. Clarity - notifications, feeds and channels have "magic" default settings that work for most users, but not everyone. we're adding more choices so people can choose the experience they want. 3. Growth - we're running experiments to get new users, and to help all users get more discovery in the feed through good recommendations by the feed algorithm. 4. Video - we're making video a first class citizen, and we're pretty excited about this. we'll have a beta soon, but it will take a few months before we get close to the major video apps in terms of ux. 5. A new experiment to help creator monetization (more details soon!) 6. Miniapps - we're continuing to fix minor issues, update docs and support developers as they are launching. 7. Snapchain - continuing to improve the developer experience.
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We're going to say goodbye to Frames v1 on July 31st. When we announced miniapps (v2 frames) back in November, we promised to support the old standard for 6 months, to make the transition as smooth as possible. Now that time has come. Most people are building and using miniapps which we are excited about, and the old frames are slowly disappearing from the timeline. What happens next? On July 31st, we'll slowly stop rendering frames and cast actions in feed. Both these features are seeing little to no usage. In the coming weeks, we may also make changes to make cast actions less prominent in the UI to make space for some new features we're working on. Why is removing frames important? It's a lot of work to support older standards and slows down the team from shipping things that people want. No new teams are building frames anymore, and existing teams have largely moved over to miniapps.
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