Alpha Log #4

This is it, y'all. The big one. The final Alpha update before we officially enter Beta. We've achieved quite a few things over the past weeks, but we wanted to lump them all into one larger update to set the stage for what's to come.

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Let's get into it!

REWORKED INDEXING API

As our early Alpha testers know, the first month or two using White Walls was... a challenge. We had utilized the Opensea API for indexing imagery and token information. This lead to constant crashes and wildly slow loading times for all users - not a great experience for the end user.

We switched to a brand new indexing platform, Simplehash, a few weeks back and the game has entirely changed.

Assets load in milliseconds and the entire experience is buttery smooth. You can load in a wallet with tens of thousands of NFTs in seconds. Truly this is the gamechanger we had needed to make the White Walls experience something that is functional and exciting to use.

Shoutout to Simplehash!

VIDEO SUPPORT V1

We've rolled out our first iteration of video support, allowing you to showcase your gorgeous video files in high definition.

We've got a lot of work to do to finalize our plans for video viewing, but we wanted to at least make sure the base features were unlocked for the early Alpha users!

GENERAL QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATES

We've adjusted a few of the settings and tweaked some minor bugs that may have impacted the general quality of the app or the user flow experience.

A few notable updates:

• Decreased Server Ping: We've lowered the server ping from 7 seconds to 3 seconds. This should make the art pushing and display settings updates feel much more seamless.

• Adjusted Art Push Flow: For users with multiple displays, the flow for pushing a piece of art has been optimized

• Asset Search V1: You can now search through assets in your wallet. A small note here, if you're hoping to search for artwork that is deeper in the wallet, you will need to scroll down first to "load in" those assets. Then you will be able to freely search through them. We will continue to iterate on this.

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Beta will be rolling out in the coming week(s) and we couldn't be more excited. We'll be introducing a few final features for Beta release 1 that we hope will put a perfect, pretty ribbon on things!

To all of our Alpha testers who have been with us from Day 1 - Thank you for sticking around and helping us build a product that we can be truly proud to release to the world.