Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Stream of consciousness on channels 1. The overwhelming top complaint about the new channels is âI lost accessâ / âI canât cast in the channels I used toâ 2. The root of this is channels ran for a year as public topics / hashtags and we nudged people to cast in channels for a minor distribution boost. 3. When we launched channels last year, one of the fears was people wouldnât cast in channels, since Twitter has tried versions of this and people were too used to casting on main / in the home timeline. 4. Farcaster user behavior was more nascent / âplasticâ / early adopters. So we ended up getting most people to cast in channels. 5. The other reality is most people want to maximize distribution. So telling them âchannels = more distributionâ is hard to unlearn, esp. if youâre more of a weekly active user.
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Pichi
@pichi
I joined Jan 28, 2024 and for as long as I can remember when I created a cast there was a pop up that literally said âadd a channel for more viewsâ, there was even a popular channel called âno channelâ to put casts that didnât fit into a category. Itâs how I was taught by the UX to use Warpcast. This is a very difficult behavior to unlearn and itâs going to take people a long time to undo this behavior. We will get there eventually.
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Joely đ©đ°
@joely.eth
Same for me. I might get there eventually, I just did a massive scrub, and I do feel cleaner for it. đ 50 $degen
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Pichi
@pichi
Iâm still in the middle of cleaning up channels. Lots are stale and arenât going to work in the new model.
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