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We're planning to move forward with rebranding the Warpcast mobile and web app to Farcaster.

1. Nothing is changing any time soon. We will take our time with this and have plenty of communication about it across multiple channels. The earliest the change will happen is mid-May, but a decent chance it happens in June.

2. We're going to work on a plan over the next 2 weeks and should have a plan by the next developer call on May 8, 2025. We will discuss on the call.

3. For developers: we're planning to open source the client monorepo— i.e. the mobile and web apps. Again, no timeline on this yet.

Warpcast is being rebranded to Farcaster 

1. Mobile app will be called Farcaster 
2. The Arch logo will return
3. Website will move from warpcast.com to farcaster.xyz.
4. All links will be backwards compatible. No action needed. 

Will roll out this week or next, depending on app store reviews.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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personally think this is a great move overall.

Expected side effects: 

1. Some users may be logged out on web 
2. Some things may be a little glitchy on launch day, but should stabilize quickly.

The original cast was 17 days ago, and called out that mid-May is the timeline :)

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> Nothing is changing any time soon. We will take our time with this
> Will roll out this week

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Recaster

fiids

the people building clients are excited about it

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The same people https://warpcast.com/haole/0x0a8a4157

the people building clients are excited about it 

https://warpcast.com/haole/0x732d6316

While I think this move makes sense, how would you incentivize developers building alternative clients?

@woj created a fantastic client /super and you scooped it up (hiring Woj), essentially killing the competition

Currently, we have /recaster with hardly any users and /fiids, which I love and hope it continues existing

Remember how you started Farcaster and don’t turn into Facebook, eliminating competition on your way to the top

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I still think it should be called "frcstr".

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The shrike will be unleashed on anyone who doesn’t accept the rebrand, dragging them back in time to change their heretical beliefs

Time to claim that .com then as well. AFAIK xyz domains are lower ranked and more prone to getting blocked, ending up in spam, etc.

Whatever you do, just don't become FarcasterMAX

this changes even less for me because I already refer to the app as Farcaster. congrats on the move. is this going to be the iOS icon or will it be tweaked?

this changes even less for me because I already refer to the app as Farcaster. congrats on the move. is this going to be the iOS icon or will it be tweaked? https://zora.co/coin/base:0xf4123bc7e8849c009fcaf4d5c5e9f847bbd60f6b?referrer=0x766f38903ddb4ef019de460ae46118a0f0e3b974

This is a good change imo and I know that you guys have been deliberating it for quite a while. I have seen the confusion before candidly from people, both on X and in person.

Looking forward to the change