# Hub Reliability, Ordering/Snapchain, Channels, and Composer Action Deeplinks

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Sep 12, 2024

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dylsteck.eth

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### TLDR

Hub reliability improvements in progress, ordering sync model revamped. Feedback collected on channel pain points, expanding follow/unfollow features. New deep link for composer actions via URL.

### Hub Reliability

- Gradual trend line where time to process has slowly been going up
  - Generally seeing increased load on things on Warpcast side
  - Made some fixes to bring them back down
- Warpcast Status dashboard: [status.warpcast.com](http://status.warpcast.com/)

### Ordering - a new sync model

- Relevant links  
  - [FIP](https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/193)  
  - [Snapchains](https://www.notion.so/0e6b7e51faf74be1846803cb74493886?pvs=21)
- Core beliefs  
  - Decentralized, global state is necessary  
  - Sync should be easy  
  - Posting should be instant & without fees  
  - Storage and bandwidth need constraints  
  - Turing-completeness is undesirable

### Channels

- Focusing on as a top priority internally to figure out the pain points & stickiness
- Moving more towards “cozy corners”  
  - More membership oriented model — instead of a topic/hashtag that then has moderation, moving to a model where you’re explicitly inviting people to participate in channel  
    - Easier for most folks to curate (like a group chat)  
    - Still public though, the work people do to make it interesting can be shown on the protocol
  - Feed will move to more of a narrowcast model
  - Can also use token gating or even programmatically inviting
- New auth model on Warpcast API that can be used for follows/unfollows in the short future
  - More on the [follow/unfollow channel API spec](https://www.notion.so/eaa1f1b66d21465d9d05b6528daebfd4?pvs=21)

### Deeplink to Composer Actions

- Warpcast will trigger composer actions from a URL

### Time to build is now

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