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Semi-regular Warpcast annoyances thread

If you were BDFOWF, what would you have us work on? 

BDFOWF = benevolent dictator for one warpcast feature

The more specific the ask, the better!

My friend couldn't onboard, the app manifest didn't load until the 3rd force-kill & restart. Then the username selection screen responded with "Username taken" for a username that's not taken.
I think they've already given up because this was such a bad onboarding experience.

1. Is it possible to get the app manifest into the APK so at least the app starts w/o internet connectivity?

2. Can we get a different error message than "Username taken" when the server isn't available?

I've been getting this a lot lately when I open the app. Anyone else?

I like talking about our awesome planet, doing engineering, and making music. And of course, DRAGONS!!!🐉🐉🐉
Nature is my tripod :)
she/they

The video feed algo is insanely bad. I get videos I’ve seen multiple times and videos that are old. Ex: TBA launch day videos, over and over and over. 

And at the same time, there are people I follow posting new videos all the time (like @newtp) and I never see these in the video feed

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Honest opinion:

💡 I like the idea of collectibles way more than coins. Simple, and so straightforward (as it is now, 90% goes to the creator and the market can still decide on the value of the collectible) that it actually resembles an everyday commercial tx.

✅ …but also (don’t mean it negatively) in FC I don’t have to see any adds

💜

c/c. @jesse.base.eth and @v

duel

the great noice-giving continues - this time, your taste can win you and your favourite designer a 4M $noice pot

/duel #3 voting is now live

to vote:
	1.	like and recast this cast
	2.	reply with the number (1 to 6) of your favourite headwear

example: if you like the first headwear, reply to my cast with ‘1’

voting ends monday

>the headwear with the most votes wins 2M $noice
>everyone who voted for the winner splits another 2M $noice

only your first vote counts - if you post another reply (even after deleting the first one), your original vote is what we’ll go with.

don’t wait too long to vote - if too many people vote, we might have to set a cutoff so everyone still gets a meaningful amount of $noice. it’ll be first come first serve then.

LET THE DUEL BEGIN

Can’t believe the iconic McWarpcap isn’t here!!!

I can't... that's the problem 😂
I know how to step around the problem though.

I will put in quote which casts experience the problem
https://farcaster.xyz/kenjiquest/0xb6f570cd

So whenever I make one of these casts with multiple quote references together with a picture, it will always crash and run in to an error. And no matter what you do to the cast afterwards, you can't escape the error. Even if you save it to drafts and whatever. 

The problem seems to be too many embeds and the cast just doesn't want to send.

The only way to fix it is, Attach the picture first, then start writing up and pasting in the links.  Then at the end it, BEFORE you send the cast, start deleting all the embeds one by one... until you have the default undeletable one. Then and only then can you cast with no errors.

Devs do something!

(If I had to guess, the culprit is a spaghetti mess of async uploading, fetching and memoization logic… which React is just absolutely trash at handling.)

Farcaster

Day 137 of asking Merkle Manufactory to fix quote casts in cast drafts

[Insert @yes2crypto.eth movie parody here]

https://farcaster.xyz/darrylyeo/0x82a297f5

Found a really annoying bug in @warpcast for web:

1. start drafting a quote cast
2. exit and “Save draft”
3. navigate to Cast › Drafts and edit the draft
4. (optional) add a new reply to the thread
5. type/paste a URL with an embed preview

The quoted cast will disappear 🫥

wait wtf this was meant to go here: https://farcaster.xyz/ted/0x4d394f85 cc @ted 

@v plz fix replies

Day 1337 of asking Merkle Manufactory to fix quote casts in cast drafts

[Insert @yes2crypto.eth movie parody here]

Whatever your decentralized, borderless, neutral, censorship-resistant open blockchain question is, the answer is YES… to Crypto!

Day 1337 of asking Merkle Manufactory to fix quote casts in cast drafts

[Insert @yes2crypto.eth movie parody here]

https://farcaster.xyz/darrylyeo/0x82a297f5

https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0x559575f6

hottakes

i hate that farcaster gives extra attention to people for posting "for the first time in a while" ... what about us people showing up eryday?

I think it would be cool if my followers got notifications like:
"@tomato.eth just achieved a 400 day streak!"

Artist from the future.

NFTs since 1998.

Bitcoin since 1985.

Your second favorite artist's second favorite artist.

https://manifold.gallery/tomato

I vaguely recall @dwr.eth and @v saying Warpcast would be made open source after getting renamed to Farcaster. Am I misremembering? Is that still in the works?

Degen

Degens, let’s get wild.

Last burn missed 50k views, this time, we aim for 100k. If the tweet below about the Degen app hits 100k views, we’ll burn 100k $DEGEN 🔥

Like. Reply. RT. Meme it into orbit.

Help us spread the word!

https://x.com/degentokenbase/status/1911455279285485734

Snow

new toys arrived today 🏂

these are “yukita boards” - kinda like snowboards but w/o boots or bindings. 

you can’t take them on the lifts because if you fall the boards go flying like missiles, so you hike them up back country with snow shoes.

i tried one for the first time last winter in japan and got hooked. 

excited to go back and level up this season!

also - anyone know what determines the order of your media uploads on fc?!? feel like there’s no rhyme or reason.

the media order when uploading is an annoying bug. @dwr.eth @v also - what’s the proper place to report bugs