Roberto Bayardo 🎩
@bayardo.eth
Most of my casts are replies. Which apparently means nobody sees most of my casts.
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@hamud
Sucks because it ruins threading
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Roberto Bayardo 🎩
@bayardo.eth
And it dramatically reduces the quality of conversations. I think it's a major L for a smaller, up and coming social network like this one. Everyone here feels very "distant".
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Roberto Bayardo 🎩
@bayardo.eth
Improving reply visibility is the type of change that would be very hard to measure via a short-term A/B experiment so I understand why it might be hard to motivate for a team staring at dashboards all day. It would require a bit of a leap of faith in absense of a more sophisticated experimental infrastructure for tracking longer term impacts on engagement.
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Roberto Bayardo 🎩
@bayardo.eth
*measure -> motivate. It would be easy to measure if some change made replies more visible, but concluding whether or not it this is actually "good" is where things get difficult. The change could result in more new users churning, for example, for which the knee-jerk reaction is ....
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kenny 🎩
@kenny
you don't need to A/B test because they made a hard change when they killed reply bumping so you can see in the public network data how it nuked conversations https://paragraph.com/@yesyes/checking-the-comment-velocity-of-real-users they've seen this data, and they don't care
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