Really dont like it, for reasons:

It impedes community growth and will drive away new users. Most people will not come back a second time if their day-one vibe is that everything is a gated community they're not allowed into. What is going to keep them coming back if not welcoming communities?

It will drive away current users who can no longer participate in communities they enjoyed. How are we expecting them to stick around after being kicked out of their fav groups?

Having to vet every member is an insane amount of responsibility and work for a big channel that wants to be mostly open. Even with a full team of mods, it'll take a lot of work to make it feel open again.

I love that talented artists show up and use /cryptoart on their first day. I love discovering them via the recent feed. How am I supposed to discover talented new users going forward?

This is going to hurt WC/FC adoption and retention of qDAUs.

Upcoming channel changes

We're *previewing* some upcoming changes so people 1) can understand and 2) provide feedback.

These changes are not launching yet. It will be a couple weeks. There will also be a bunch of communication to channel owners. 

After reading the entire doc, feel free to reply to with feedback or send me a DC. I've tried to answer a lot of common questions in the FAQ.

https://warpcast.notion.site/Upcoming-channel-changes-1056a6c0c101800caee6ea8133f8f966

My response to the announced changes to channels. 
I would love to have a conversation about this. Do you agree? Am I wrong? How can we avoid creating an unwelcoming pretentious environment?

My response to the announced changes to channels. 
I would love to have a conversation about this. Do you agree? Am I wrong? How can we avoid creating an unwelcoming pretentious environment? https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xc1517c7e

Artist + Designer + Front-End Dev
// CoreTeam at @ethereumgt + @pulsomedia.eth c※-founder // PFP: Lil'Noun #7477

Yeah second this. Maybe it would be a good idea to add something similar to hashtags to at least make nonchannel casts more visible and then treat channels more like subreddits or Discord groups which are more high functioning/feature rich.

Up to this point, channels have been little more than glorified hashtags, and they need more utility to stay relevant. With that said, it'd be good to have a low key way for non channlers to still find each other and for mods to find potential members.

Agree. I think some level of gating will give channels more utility, but noobs still need a way to discover each other and interact with other community members. My suggestion:

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Agree. I think some level of gating will give channels more utility, but noobs still need a way to discover each other and interact with other community members. My suggestion:

https://warpcast.com/alditrus/0x39833508