⚠️ Kiwi News mini app updates

1. Cast links are now rendered as previews. 

I used @pugson's https://github.com/pugson/react-farcaster-embed as a way to bootstrap the design there. Highly recommend checking it.

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🔍 ensdata.net ✦ 🖼️ pugson.net/rfe ✦ 𝙽𝙾𝚆: design engineer @family ✦ 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚅: @rainbow 🌈 ✦ 𝙱𝚄𝙸𝙻𝙳𝙸𝙽𝙶: @vision

2. Articles on mobile have their image previews back. This was a pretty long-standing bug.

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Used to build @kiwi | https://macbudkowski.com/

3. The Kiwi News TG is "shut down" for now. 

I know I get mocked for this but my gut tells me that going all in on FC as a marketing channel for mini apps is the right move.

The TG was obviously great and me and @macbudkowski have tons of great memories from running it. 

"Good PMs kill their darlings."

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4. Other than that some smaller bug fixes were shipped.

That's all from today. I hope to see you in the Kiwi News comment section!

If you haven't tried the app yet, you can add it here 

news.kiwistand.com

Unironically bullish on Farcaster as a major winner in the Ethereum ecosystem.

I've been complaining about the awful UX of Ethereum wallets for years. 

Farcaster seems to be on a reasonable path to fix UX in Ethereum wallets. Why would anyone use another hot wallet than Farcaster in 3-5 years?

5. I forgot to mention: I wrote down some thoughts on why I'm bullish on Farcaster as an Ethereum ecosystem:

🚨 Mini app updates for Kiwi News

TLDR: Haptics, notifications, submissions

1. Comment notifications are here. When someone comments on your submission or replies you‘ll now be notified

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Last mini app update cast storm: https://farcaster.xyz/timdaub.eth/0xdcebb138

5. I forgot to mention: I wrote down some thoughts on why I'm bullish on Farcaster as an Ethereum ecosystem: https://farcaster.xyz/timdaub.eth/0x9c67dcd8