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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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Trending Tokens! See the most popular tokens being traded by Farcasters in real time. Open your wallet and tap the trending tokens banner. You may need to restart a few times to get the latest update. h/t @slokh for the fast ship
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What is the Farcaster team working on? 1. Stability - a platform upgrade introduced a lot of mobile bugs. we're fixing them as fast as we can. 2. Clarity - notifications, feeds and channels have "magic" default settings that work for most users, but not everyone. we're adding more choices so people can choose the experience they want. 3. Growth - we're running experiments to get new users, and to help all users get more discovery in the feed through good recommendations by the feed algorithm. 4. Video - we're making video a first class citizen, and we're pretty excited about this. we'll have a beta soon, but it will take a few months before we get close to the major video apps in terms of ux. 5. A new experiment to help creator monetization (more details soon!) 6. Miniapps - we're continuing to fix minor issues, update docs and support developers as they are launching. 7. Snapchain - continuing to improve the developer experience.
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We're adding notifications filters to give you more control over what you get notified about. Go to Notifications > Settings to change this. Power users will benefit from stronger filtering so they can stay on top of whats important, while new users might want to get alerted more often.
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hmm
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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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Dialed in the new user boost algo a little bit. It was a little too aggressive last night. Should improve home feeds for a lot of users. Following feed is still unaffected by these changes.
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