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why don’t people form small groups (3-5) around an interest, create a channel, and cast/reply to each other? 

it could:
1. amplify reach (shared audiences)  
2. create richer, more dynamic discussions (shared effort)
3. build deeper connections  

maybe it feels like extra work or it’s hard to find each other?

I’m the admin for a small invite-only group chat with great deep-dive discussions. (Currently 34 people; about 10 are regularly active). 

We’d love to have a public, community-owned cozy corner in addition to our private chat. Here's why we haven’t started a channel:

- We don’t have a sustainable economic model to support it. Channels are labor-intensive if done well. Even slow-paced small group discussions require regular maintenance. Without paid moderators and sustainable ways for network effects to accrue to the contributors, curators, and maintainers, it's unlikely to be feasible long-term. 

- Information impermanence. Groups develop collective memories over time, so they need easily accessible spots for archived material, rules, FAQs, best-of lists, etc. Right now even the best channel discussions get buried in the “perpetual now” of the algo feed and quickly forgotten, so there's no good place for what we'd like to do.

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We don’t even have rules or norms anymore that I can point to.

I love the discussions too. It would be nice to put together curated selections of highlights to share publicly. But I don't think channels (in their current form, anyway) are the best place for that. 

I'm also unclear on how much of a priority WC channels will be for Merkle long-term, so there's that, too.

It's definitely the most thoughtful group chat I'm in

I love seeing the conversations, even when I have nothing meaningful to contribute

I agree that Warpcast doesn't have any functions that can properly meet these needs, be that channels or group chats