Farcaster Developer Calls
Hubble Monitoring, Frame Actions/Documentation, and New User Experience
on
Jul 18, 2024
by
dylsteck.eth
TLDR
Hubble's node count reduced from 13k to 10k, with plans for further reduction. Alchemy addressing free accounts running hubs, mainly targeting airdrop farmers. Hub divergence fixes underway. Warpcast Sync Status: healthy for 7+ days. Storage reduction on hold to explore options. Composer actions expanding beyond initial three, now functional on web. New user experience improvements include a recommendation algorithm for feeds and enhancements to the signup flow. Spam detection improvements for feeds. DC performance and feature enhancements underway.
HUBBLE — @sanjay, @wazzymandias, @sds, @cassie
Large number of nodes, lots were due to some YouTube tutorials etc
Caused a few downstream issues
More FC notes than ETH nodes
Added some stuff to the hub setup process to hopefully try to bring it down
was at 13k now down to 10k, plans to reduce further
have ideas like staking/paying if it doesn’t slow down enough, but hopefully this is it
Alchemy is seeing a ton of free accounts running hubs, Alchemy is trying to shut it down(hit a few real uses but has mostly only hit airdrop farmers)
Hub divergence — working on a series of smaller issues
Warpcast Sync Status — status.warpcast.com (healthy for 7+ days)
STORAGE REDUCTION - @wazzymandias
On pause, exploring options
Probably postponing this for at least one release cycle to explore options & focus on other things(like sync issues) rn
FRAMES + ACTION + DOCUMENTATION — @dwr.eth @deodad @horsefacts
Working on expanding composer actions beyond the initial three
Composer actions work now on web too
Explorer tool to test composer actions & changes to the spec
Still TBD on the timeline/process for officially integrating to Warpcast
Frame signatures
eg. Polymarket frame uses two EIP712’s
They have a group chat for this type of stuff, reach out to @deodad or @horsefacts to get added
@deodad has also been working on Farcaster docs, trying to make it more relevant to devs who are coming on and want to get started building things
Less emphasis on “protocol stuff”, more on getting started to build things
NUX IMPROVEMENTS — @akshaan, @cmlad.eth, @blockheim
Working on algo to recommend feed instead of auto follow
Based on interests, the app will generate an algo feed but you have to explicitly follow people to add them to your follow list
Evolves from an algo feed to a follow feed
Early version shipped to small % of new users, will hopefully have this out to all new users in the next few weeks
Improvements to signup flow
FEED IMPROVEMENTS — @akshaan
Improvements to spam detection
DC IMPROVEMENTS — @gt, @gabrielayuso.eth
Performance and feature improvements