fc-updates

Priorities this week: 

1. Decentralizing channels
2. Direct Cast APIs
3. Improving feed quality 
4. Scaling Hubs to 1M users 
5. Improving app reliability

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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#1 priority is channels.

Channels will become fully decentralized, so that you can own them onchain and use all functionality from any client. 

This may take 2-3 months to ship since it requires onchain work.

#3 priority is feed quality. 

Iterating on ML systems and other features to make your feed more relevant and find interesting casts you may like. 

We'll be doing a lot of small experiments over the next month.

#4 priority is scaling hubs to 1M users. 

We've made some significant improvements to sync, and are turning our focus to storage. Specifically, making Hubs faster on disk drives of all kinds.

#5 priority is improving app reliability. 

We've made significant improvements to the reliability of Warpcast <> Hub message processing. 

Now focussed on client side improvements - reducing crashes, improving battery life usage and more.

#2 priority is direct cast apis. 

Accounts will be able to programmatically message users who opt in. 

Expect this to ship soon.

The open web is dead, long live the open web. ⌐◨-◨

Building /warpcast and /farcaster

— gabrielayuso.com

Thanks for this, it’s all I ever wanted

Very excited about channels becoming first citizens. We’ll be eating Reddit’s lunch in addition to Twitter’s!