### Composer Actions, Hubble Updates / Sync Status, and Warpcast Improvements

**Jul 2, 2024**  
by **dylan**

HUBBLE — [@sanjay](https://warpcast.com/sanjay), [@wazzymandias](https://warpcast.com/wazzymandias.eth), [@sds](https://warpcast.com/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](http://status.warpcast.com/) (trending up, targeting 1 min max delays)

**STORAGE REDUCTION -** [@wazzymandias](https://warpcast.com/wazzymandias.eth)

- 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](https://warpcast.com/deodad), [@horsefacts](https://warpcast.com/horsefacts.eth)

- 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](https://warpcast.notion.site/Draft-Composer-Actions-7f2b8739ee8447cc8a6b518c234b1eeb?pvs=74)

**PROGRAMMABLE DIRECT CASTS —** [@v](https://warpcast.com/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](https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth)

- 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](https://warpcast.com/akshaan), [@cmlad.eth](https://warpcast.com/cmlad.eth), @piril

- New ways to report a cast from the feed
- Keyword muting
- Spam detection & priority mode