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@warpcastadmin.eth

sadly, today i have cancelled my neynar subscription my open and free farcaster hub has been shut down too all my bots that i've built on farcaster already haven't worked for a while because of rapid api changes that, frankly, i don't have time to fix a stupid tg bot i've built in 2016 (8 years ago) still works today because there weren't many breaking bot api changes smart contracts that i've written years ago are still up and running i'm not leaving the ecosystem just yet but it is difficult as it is to build something people want to use, moreover when you literally have to fight for these things to work repeatedly every few months i'm also demotivated to build anything on farcaster now because i'm afraid it will break again in 1-2 months

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now, i've truly tried to overcome this by going slow and fixing @gpt first — i've upgraded everything, including github.com/BigWhaleLabs/botcaster (this still works btw) — and it worked! github.com/backmeupplz/farcaster-chatgpt was alive again... for like 20 minutes until it died again i don't want to spend any more time to keep trying to fix what happened again i could have predicted this when i built mfsa.cc, precisely when farcster ecosystem became overcomplicated first, farcaster decided to cater to clients as opposed to simple bots like mine now, farcaster caters to "mini-apps", again, as opposed to simple bots like mine the result is that whatever one doesn't nurture simply dies off you nurture 3rd party clients — clients pop up like mushrooms after the rain, you nurture mini-apps, they pop up like mushrooms but in this whole thing farcaster, neynar, etc, you guys are missing an important thing people don't want complexity they want to @remindme 2 days

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this is what i'm sure most users see when they try cast actions, they can then go into "discover" and... be so lost with choice that they become paralyzed and just don't make the choice frames were great! we need more things like that, and i've built many frames myself now, mini-apps? will suffer the same fate as composer and cast actions and i know, @dwr.eth will swoop in and be like "55% of users on mobile use cast actions" but i sincerely hope that the team has stats on non-airdrop farming accounts separately so that they can gauge the real interest in features

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anyway, this is just me venting with unsolicited feedback on how i feel about farcaster recently i'm in no way upset that i've did these things on farcaster, it's the opposite — i loved every moment of it and i'd love to keep building here, i'm also v grateful for the subs i got on farcaster and i love the community i'm upset that this is kind of ended for me now with no capacity to fix what i assumed shouldn't've been broken to begin with we had it all, and the breaking api upgrades... they costed us everything

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i'm also upset that having 100k+ followers this cast thread will be seen by like 10 people you, my favorite 10 people, are the true gold of this platform

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now, i also trust my instincts here a bit more — having repeatedly ignored them over the last decade e.g. when doing a lot of zk work just to be completely ignored by @vitalik.eth when he listed *all* our competitors (that actually haven't had a working product) and conveniently forgetting to mention us (probably because we've never been a part of ef or their friends) or when overstaying in tg ecosystem only for the tg team to sherlock 5 products of mine exactly 5 years after i've launched each one of them (probably because i've never been a part of tg team or their friends) now, i see multiple red flags in farcaster ecosystem, e.g.: - airstack fully pivoting into moxie (that's what's making money) - neynar team dictating things like "you should use x over y" even though my context clearly says that i can't use x due to security implications — but they don't care - farcaster dismissing the "small developer" (which are a lot of us)

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Here for you & bummed how it’s played out. I obviously can’t help a single bit but I am struck by how you can still see how much you’ve enjoyed building these things out. Most people are only angry when something like this happens so I appreciate you seeing the good and sharing it all.

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my pleasure following you.

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