Most of my casts are replies. Which apparently means nobody sees most of my casts.

Improving reply visibility is the type of change that would be very hard to measure via a short-term A/B experiment so I understand why it might be hard to motivate for a team staring at dashboards all day. It would require a bit of a leap of faith in absense of a more sophisticated experimental infrastructure for tracking longer term impacts on engagement.

And it dramatically reduces the quality of conversations. I think it's a major L for a smaller, up and coming social network like this one. Everyone here feels very "distant".

Just turned on the notifications now I’ll catch all your casts.

Can confirm — nobody is ever doing to read these comments. 😄

this system still sucks tho because unless your reply is a direct reply, it'll never show up in the home feed no matter how many likes it gets

deep back and forth conversations get no visibility

I (inadvertently) game the system by  occasionally writing the "best" reply, usually by being funny or helpful.

After a certain threshold, I *think* 3-5 likes, the top reply surfaces on the home feed and thus pairs with the original cast.

There's a first mover advantage too.

I see this one, but it's not a reply 🤣