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Farcaster Updates

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Decentralized Channels — @dwr

• Phase 1 Live today!
  • Removed things that would not scale with decentralization, such as passes, banning, mute, etc
  • Passes can now be done with external models
  • Watching for a week to make sure things are running smoothly
  • After that will start on spec how to handle things like metadata
  • No decisions yet on how to approach channel names and squatter issue. Might be handled in the same way fnames were done
  • Protocol change will probably will land beginning of September

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Programmable DCs — @horsefacts, @deodad

• v1 is out, collecting feedback on what would be useful for v2
• Read access has been one ask but not high demand. Still looking into it.
• Be vocal about what you would like to @deodad and @horsefacts

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Long Casts

• Exploring this idea about longer posts in Farcaster
• Several ways to approach this, open to FIPs
• Could either expand hub casts where data would be saved just like it always is, but could take up space
• Other approach is saving data offchain and fetching it as an embed
• One FIP already out there by @vrypan suggests a similar format to ERC721 Metadata. Check it out here.

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Pruning Changes — @Sanjay

• Duplicate LinkAdds bugs (cast)
• Link Defragmentation changes from Warpcast

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Fname Issues — @Cassandra Heart

• Duplicate LinkAdds bugs (cast)
• Link Defragmentation changes from Warpcast
• Will clean up instances where you might see !fid in hub data for fnames

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Warpcast Updates

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Direct messaging — @Piril Akay, @Goksu Toprak

• DCs becoming much more stable
• Better conversation management (delete, mark unread, pinning)
• Better group messaging invitations