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. 

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Still and Moving Images, Designer & Drop D appreciator. Latest: COLORIDⴷ - view on https://colorida.art | Building: noaapp.xyz [proof of concept]

i've worked in the ad industry for a long time and 'interesting content' is what was put in presentations when people didn't know what that actually meant for the brand :) so i'm curious.

algo needs a reboot. simple as that. and feed needs more flexibility for the user to decide what (and how) they want to see instead of assumptions and guesses.

i understand this is a WIP etc but 12h, 2d old casts from the same people on the home feed are not the way.

came here to ask the same. is it just a weighted list on followers and engagement over the trailing 30? 

guess the bigger question is how can we realign accounts that didnt get a mass bot following to have equal footing of virality with the new algo?

"Warpcast maintains curated lists of people who post interesting content in each interest category"

how do you/warpcast define 'interesting content'?

Best update for newcomers and for smaller accounts that now have an even greater chance to get these new joiners to follow them, awesome work!

I hope I'm on the list of people who are offered for following😤
If not…
I was offended

very curious what y’all learn w this and hope you do share. tough but to crack and we will learn from yall.

I wonder how you would measure success. 

Are you checking for 
- % of active users after 7/15/30 days? 
- % of active users that cast 5/10/15 posts?

Or something else?!

need that hobby users and hobby channels ~ 
NicE

That’s interesting now) Thank you! 

Newcomers won’t have a lot of information right away; they’ll be able to gradually get up to speed.