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Just PSA that it's ok to build tools to make web user's lives easier. 

I simply offered a potential solution to an already acknowledged problem of not being able to SIWF without a phone on web. The fact that "most farcaster users are on mobile" is irrelevant to that.

Fair. I guess I'm trying to avoid fragmenting the UX if we end up changing SIWF to make it easier for web. Realize my initial response came off as dismissive / curt. Sorry about that. I should taken the time to provide more thinking from my end.

Anyways, you or anyone else should build it if interesting.

Not sure where I implied anything negative about your web app, that's mainly what I use?

I know it's not your priority that's why I didn't suggest anything for you guys to do, and rather suggested something not dependent on you.

Whether it's trusted or not depends on the actual extension that doesn't even exist yet so getting ahead of ourselves here. If I/Rainbow/someone else built an open source version of it, I would hope you wouldn't immediately brand us as untrusted.

I think our web app is pretty good. :)

1. Having people import a seed phrase into an untrusted Chrome extension is bad security.

2. We'd like to figure out a way to make web SIWF smoother / not require a phone, but it's a bunch of work and relative to all of our other priorities—and since 85% of usage is mobile—probably not worth prioritizing right now.

the most recent example i can remember was @moxiescout but basically any "sign-in with Farcaster" web-based experience. 

ps. fwiw i did end up getting back to moxiescout and its been a great service.

wdym non-warpcast web apps? curious because the mobile-only sign-in flow is brutal for me too bc i try to stay away from my phone

While I agree with the sentiment,  exporting/importing a seed phrase isn’t the right answer either. It introduces complexity and a massive security vector. 

What I will say is that conversions for non-Warpcast web apps are being hurt by this mobile-only sign-in flow. 

Anecdotally, I’ve gone to try several apps. My phone is in the other room, meh too lazy to get it- I’ll try it later. Spoiler: I never try it later.

making the web easier to use is a lifestyle

i regularly switch between web and mobile and most times when i switch back to web i am already signed out and i have to sign in again with my mobile which is pretty frustrating because it requires me using a vpn for the task, if not for this i think id spend more time on web.