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Farcaster Topics

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Hubble — @Sanjay, @wazzymandias, @sds

• Number of nodes up to 11,000+.
  • As of June 2nd there were only 2-3K hubs.
  • Still unknown if these are fake, but from what has been gathered they are legitimate, probably people following tutorials hoping for an airdrop
• Experiencing gossip flooding — v1.13.5 is out with fixes.
  • Path helps with a DDOS effect on hubs due to massive growth
• Network divergence — new force sync to allow easy catchup, reachout if affected.
  • Should fix some of the issues we saw last week with Warpcast and Neynar
  • Hub owners have the option of doing a re-sync to help as well
• Link defragmentation — can potentially cause sync issues, being tracked
  • Change had a side effect where reading event of deleting 9K links which caused some delays with Warpcast, fix will go to Hubs as well
• Warpcast Sync Status — status.warpcast.com (trending up, targeting 1 min max delays)
  • Things seem to be stabilizing well

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Storage Reduction - @wazzymandias

• Hub size is 130 GB+, like 500GB in 6-12 months.
  • Team feels comfortable going 10x
  • After 10x we will see problems, looking into solutions now
  • Proposed FIP — reduce storage unit size by 20% keep cost the same.

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Composer Actions — @deodad, @horsefacts

• Inspired by External Cast Data spec
• Make it easy for third party apps to augment casts
  • Idea is to make it easier for people to reuse frames
  • e.g. launch a poll when making a cast and have it available in that window
  • Hopefully will help with making frames more accessible
• Full Spec: https://warpcast.notion.site/Draft-Composer-Actions-7f2b8739ee8447cc8a6b518c234b1eeb?pvs=74

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Programmable Direct Casts — @v

• Usage growing slower than expected (20 unique senders, 5k messages per day).
• DC quality also moderate — some interesting apps, but few and far between.
• Planning to wait and see if there is more usage or uptake before we decentralized further.
• If you have a strong use case but you haven’t been able to because something isn’t unlocked on Warpcast, let @v know to help prioritization.

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Decentralized Channels — @dwr

• Update on channel decentralization

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Warpcast Updates

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Feed Improvements — @akshaan, @cmlad.eth, @piril

• Keyword muting
• Spam detection & priority mode
  • Priority mode was a temporary measure while better spam detection was built. With better spam detection you will see the replies, then a button to see other replies that appeared to be spam
  • Report casts is more effective and you will get a DC if the spam was confirmed and taken care of
  • Still an active pursuit and will take time to get right