Varun Srinivasan

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Control your experience on Farcaster. We've added three new filtering options for Notifications, Replies and Channels. You can pick the lowest setting if don't want to miss a thing or the higher settings if you're overwhelmed with notifications and want us to filter out the most important updates for you. Try these out today in Settings > Notifications, Settings > Feeds and Channel > Manage > Who can cast.

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can someone start a polymarket for dan getting into woodworking next?

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Second PSA: if you have reply filtering set to high, the algorithm will only show you replies that you are likely to be interested in. if you want to see a lot more replies, consider changing it to medium. that's what i use, and that's the default setting when new users join today.

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PSA: if your casts are showing up under "Show more replies", the most common reason is that you are posting in a channel, and the channel owner has restricted who can reply. You have two options: 1. ask the channel owner to add you as a member. 2. don't post in the channel, then your replies wont be hidden.

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Made some significant improvements to app performance today, some changes have already shipped, others coming soon. App will feel much better by the end of the week.

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If you are still running into issues on Android, and have a few minutes to help us debug, please reply and I'll add you to a group chat with the eng team. Working hard to fix this asap.

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Please update Farcaster from the App Store. We rolled out a new build that addresses many of the issues that people have been facing. If you continue to see issues after updating, let me know in the replies

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Watching this with the kids today. Sadly a little dated, wish someone would remake this anime for 2025.

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recording plans foiled by lapse in childcare. will not be able to produce videos without peppa big blaring loudly in the background. trying again next weekend.

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Weekly rewards are meant to support creators who spend their time and energy creating engaging content on Farcaster. We've seen some accounts try to trick the algo by coordinating engagement, and redirect rewards towards low effort or uninteresting content. We're making changes to fix this. 1. The algo will reward diverse weekly engagement. If you get two likes from different people, they'll give you more points than two likes from the same person. 2. The algo may reduce or eliminate points from some accounts based on heuristics (engaging with spammy accounts, only with a particular account, in time patterns that suggest coordination etc) These changes will roll out on Tuesday. For more details on how rewards work, see the page below. https://farcasterhq.notion.site/Farcaster-Creator-Rewards-1f56a6c0c101808f9225c5705ae88fcc

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Dan has literally been sitting around waiting for someone to use the 10k cast feature for a historical write up

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going to make some videos over the weekend. what would you like to hear about?

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We added three new features that give you more control over your experience. 1. Notifications Filtering (Settings > Notifications) 2. Reply Filtering (Settings > Feeds) 3. Channel Filtering (Channel > Manage > Who can cast) They will let you control when you get notifications, when you see replies below posts and who can post in your channels. Try them out today if you haven't already!

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New: Channel Filters Choose who gets to participate in your channel. You can make it: - Members only - Recommended only (our algo) - Open to everyone Open your channel, go to manage > who can cast to change this.

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👀 that's really slick

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we had a big regression on android with a recent platform change. fix coming soon (1-4 days)

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multifamily thirst trap arc begins. new era for farcaster.

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A quick history of the Farcaster feed. Back in 2021, the first version of the feed just showed you every post, starting with the newest. There wasn't a way to unfollow! This was ok because we were just a 100 or so weird internet people who liked hanging out together. We added follows soon after, when someone started annoying someone else. This hurt new users quite a bit because they started with an empty feed and had to do a lot of work to make it good. So we picked the most active users each week and suggested they follow them when signing up. It was built in an incredibly simple way. Every time you loaded your app, we'd run a sql query to fetch the latest casts, hydrate the links and images and serve you a feed. At some point, we moved this into a background job so it would run every 30 seconds, and slow down if you stopped checking the app.

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If you're running into bugs on Android this week, please reply below with a video, screenshot or detailed description. Will tremendously help us triage and fix these issues.

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