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What is the most frustrating thing about Farcaster right now?

Reply and like the replies from others that resonate.

I’ll only ask clarifying questions (ie I won’t tell you you’re wrong) and then respond to a dozen or so top answers in a video this weekend with how we think about it.

I'll echo what you've repeatedly mentioned in the past: not enough great content, (particularly in a bull market, when speculation fills the air).

As a corollary: I think the channels experiment (regardless of outcome) has forked both Merkle's and users' focus on content discovery between channels & better feed(s).

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> As a corollary: I think the channels experiment (regardless of outcome) has forked both Merkle's and users' focus on content discovery between channels & better feed(s).

Say more?

First, as a user:
• There's a greater cognitive load in creation: do I post this in main or in a channel? who will see it if I post in a channel? will they be able to reply? does it get boosted to non-channel members?, etc.
• There are obstacles for curation: if I follow this channel, but I'm not a member, will I eventually miss anything? am i better off following the active members? should I follow both?
• As a business account: should I have a community for my brand, or a user for my brand or both? how do i treat each or both?

TL;DR: I think folks may be divided on whether the best way to approach the product is "deep" (all-in on main, value aggregates to my account alone) or "wide" (find my several cozy corners, value aggregates but diluted between my account AND channels).

fc-updates

PSA about the new version of channels

1. They're no longer single topics / hashtags. We tried hashtags for a year and they didn't work. There's no canonical /food channel anymore. Instead, there will be many smaller groups about a topic.

2. The best way to think about the new version of channels — a text-based Twitter Space. There's a group of people (members) "on stage" who can post new stuff in the channel, and a larger group in the "audience". However, anyone in the audience can reply and get discovered / invited to the channel. We've improved how replies work (and making it easy to invite from replies) in the last 24 hours.

3. Casting in your home feed, i.e. no channel, will give you just as much distribution in the algo. We have not been boosting casts from channels you follow but people you don't follow for a while. The results were too inconsistent.

4. Our next big focus will be onboarding new users directly to channels when joining Farcaster.

It definitely helps! Missed that cast; thanks. Raises more questions for sure, but also answers a couple.

Does this answer your first question?

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x96bde48c