social

Why do we consume our feeds algorithmically but our chats chronologically?

The current chat UX treats all messages as if they’re the same level of importance or relevance even though they’re not, especially in larger groups

This leads to notification fatigue which in turn causes members to mute and check out

/new-york 🗽 • /untzuntz 😈 • /tastebuds 🍕 Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮

I have thought about this for a while, especially in the ol' Discord days. 

The best I've reasoned is that folks actually interact with feed content (e.g., like, comment, etc.), whereas chats/messages are, by and large, just read and keep scrolling.

so the behavior change would be more ways to engage with chat messages to determine which ones are actually 'useful'

tldr; tuff to apply logic to something that's read and scrolled past imo