Composer Actions, Hubble Updates / Sync Status, and Warpcast Improvements - Neynar

Jul 2, 2024
by dylan

HUBBLE — @sanjay, @wazzymandias, @sds

Number of nodes up to 11,000+.
Experiencing gossip flooding — v1.13.5 is out with fixes.
Network divergence — new force sync to allow easy catchup, reach out if affected.
Link defragmentation — can potentially cause sync issues, being tracked.
Warpcast Sync Status — status.warpcast.com (trending up, targeting 1 min max delays)

STORAGE REDUCTION - @wazzymandias

Current hub size is 130 GB+, could grow to ~ 500GB in 6-12 months.
Proposed FIP — reduce storage unit size by 20% keep cost the same, could help even more in the future.

COMPOSER ACTIONS — @deodad, @horsefacts

Inspired by External Cast Data spec
The goal is to make it easy for third party apps to augment casts
- This could also help with frame discoverability, which has been a pain point for devs
How it’d work
- There would be a new action type called form that would return an embedded iframe that shows up in/can modify the cast composer
- This lines up with how cast action data is created/returned too -- could expand to other contexts in the future as well
- Still prototyping, but a v1 could come out this week with a focus on specific use cases(polls, events, and bounties)
  - More hard-coded for v1 as a POC, but this could expand into an App Store-like model
Full Spec: https://warpcast.notion.site/Draft-Composer-Actions-7f2b8739ee8447cc8a6b518c234b1eeb?pvs=74

PROGRAMMABLE DIRECT CASTS — @v

Usage growing slower than expected (20 unique senders, 5k messages per day)
- Not growing fast enough where they can grow it, the Warpcast team should/will be prioritizing:
  - Composer actions
  - Making frames faster
  - Integrating better with other wallets in mobile
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.

DECENTRALIZED CHANNELS — @dwr

Still trying to figure out how to increase casting in channels
- If unable to do that, then spending time to decentralize the primitive would be a mistake
Warpcast is shipping all these other features (long casts, streaks etc.) to try and push more interesting content & help with this problem.

WARPCAST FEED IMPROVEMENTS — @akshaan, @cmlad.eth, @piril