fc-updates

Warpcast

every week i create a new fid through warpcast to check how the onboarding flow changes through my own experience

guess what

no more 70 autofollow list

and that initial feed is now a cherry pick and seemingly unbiased selection of the best casts of the network

this is an important change. chapeau 🎩

When you sign up to Warpacst today, we will: 

1. Ask for your interests 
2. Show you an algo feed 
3. Ask you to follow people 

As you follow more people, we'll show you more stuff from your followers and less from the algo.

This is an experiment and ~ half of new users will see this today.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

How does the algo work? 

Warpcast maintains curated lists of people who post interesting content in each interest category. If you select an interest, we will show you recent content from those users up to 5 times. 

If you don't follow them, the algo feed will stop showing you content from those users.

It's important to call out, the starting feed is still curated by Warpcast. 

The big difference is that we learn your preferences faster. If we show you casts from someone and you don't like them, we'll stop showing you that user pretty quickly.

You guys aiming on having something similar for an experience where we can discover new channels based on our interests?

Is the list of recommended users public? 

Not yet, but we plan to make it more visible if you are selected for "new user recommendations" 

Will it always be a manual list? 
No, we think we can make it more automated over time by introducing some semantic analysis.

what is an interest category? is this different from individual channels?

On a user messaging front, it should be the focus to really drive home that following users powers everything. I spent a lot of time finding channels and was more selective with follows at first. Hate to think I would miss someone because I didn't follow fast enough.

What if I like all their posts but don’t follow them?

Some people don’t really use the following mechanic and don’t understand why they should bother learning it

Love the transparency... 

Another reason the purple app will win