Varun Srinivasan
@v
We're going to say goodbye to Frames v1 on July 31st. When we announced miniapps (v2 frames) back in November, we promised to support the old standard for 6 months, to make the transition as smooth as possible. Now that time has come. Most people are building and using miniapps which we are excited about, and the old frames are slowly disappearing from the timeline. What happens next? On July 31st, we'll slowly stop rendering frames and cast actions in feed. Both these features are seeing little to no usage. In the coming weeks, we may also make changes to make cast actions less prominent in the UI to make space for some new features we're working on. Why is removing frames important? It's a lot of work to support older standards and slows down the team from shipping things that people want. No new teams are building frames anymore, and existing teams have largely moved over to miniapps.
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Varun Srinivasan
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If you believe you will be impacted by this, please reply and we'll work with you to make this transition smooth.
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tim/vortac
@vortac
Does the team not see potential for having a programmable media primitive that is displayed directly in the cast? Without all the wallet/auth stuff? Just to pull in dynamically generated media that is hosted externally? I believe this is still a powerful idea...
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Varun Srinivasan
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that was the original inspiration, but in practice the apps coming out were not that compelling. there are a few reasons for this: 1. image generation is clunky and hard for most developers 2. the buttons offered very few degrees of control 3. the canvas wasn't expressive enough for interesting apps
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tim/vortac
@vortac
Fully understand. But if you think way below "apps", more as dynamic media with a link...it has been really useful to share art from different platforms for example, without having to tediously download the image, downsize it, re-upload it and so on. Also you had a direct link to the piece on the platform. I don't see how a miniapp could replace the experience.
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