Dan Romero on Warpcast

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If we were to work on channels as a developer lego, what should we improve? Decentralizing existing primitive doesn’t drive network growth. So would have to offer something new / compelling.

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Add customization options to channels. Right now there is nothing to differentiate /success from /degen besides a title and channel description and some hidden rules. - Can we get banners ala Reddit or Facebook pages? It doesn’t have to be huge or gawdy - something classy and clean but that lets us add some customization to our channels. - We could really use an explore type tab for channels and communities where people are having fun and spending a lot of time. Similar to the explore tab for composer actions/etc. - Not sure if this is technically feasible but sub-channels would be dope. For example; success has a subgroup for education - it would be awesome if we could segment educational content away from other content. - Bring back something that shows top casters. I know you said it could be gamed but it’s still a cool feature. Gives people a reason to spend time in a channel. I have also asked in the success GC so will come back with more feedback.

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APIs to (1) follow channels and (2) create channels, so they become fully usable in other apps if you want, you can check if app_fid has a registered signer for the user on the network without necessarily decentralizing the channel primitive itself; that’ll ensure that the user has at least given the app _some_ permissions and if yes, you can then let them access channel APIs

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Easy to use and native pay gate system that doesn’t require using a third party. Hyperfluid and AF and moxie are an unnecessary layer imo

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make them feel like distinct places. more new york city less orange county

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Enabling API access so that other clients can be channel focused.

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Improving channel moderation is a huge one. I know there are 3rd party tools that do this but moderation of a channel is a big job and it doesn’t have to be.

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Ability to make channels private and accept users into channel upon request

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allowing channels created outside of WC to show up in warpcast—example if i made @event urls into parent_urls and let ppl cast at them, that wouldn’t show up in WC today right?

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Read-gated channels Main feed moderation isn’t enough since most people view casts via home feed anyway, feels like it defeats the point a bit of automod and similar tools Also more of social is moving to private group chats but the downside is limited discoverability and too many notifications without an algo feed

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1/ If channels are the ultimate communities playground, then add a mix of Web3/traditional community-related features, eg gating comes to mind based on activity or paid (earned vs paid analogy). 2/ Spaces-like audio events. It's time, no?

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honestly hard to think of a use case for channels as a lego besides like using a channel to create a custom client, ie only pull casts from a particular channel. i'd say give the option to remove the "recent" tab so they can act as a publicly viewable gated forum by using things like your hamcaster token, or moxie fan token, or any other token for that matter. for example you can only post in /deployer if you have my caster token. you combine 3 separate products to create a friendtech/alfafrens gated forum experience. caster token as the key, automod for moderation, warpcast for the forum.

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don’t think the developer interface is lacking, I think it just needs a kickstart from the mothership in terms of being centered in the experience show me a twitter style sidebar on the home feed with AI-generated summaries of the recent discourse in my channels

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We can have users choose what channels they would be interested in joining during sign up (mobile) Or recommending them based on interest

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Not sure there’s anything lacking in channels Out of context Dan, can we have an upgrade where by we can edit casts (in cases of typographical errors or we forget to add)

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the focus should be decreasing barriers to grow new communities 1. add API endpoints for - channel creation - new user invites 2. sponsor account + channel creation fees for devs using these APIs why? new communities should grow bottom up via channel clients devs come for the tool (unruggable APIs) and stay for the network (persistent social graph) users will also come for the tool (channel client) and stay for the network (other channel clients) example: if im building a marketplace, i want an easy way to tap into currently active affinity groups and create new ones my users would care about being part of their affinity groups, and maybe some would discover/create new ones to buy from/sell to if im building a facebook equivalent, i want the same thing as a dev my users would care about joining their fraternity group, their sports team group, their university group, etc. in either case, account creation and channel creation must be seamless

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Another cut: let people subscribe to channels via email digest I would create a personal channel and use it as a blog if I could distribute the contents to my existing email subscriber base If they want to reply they can signup for Farcaster

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Let channel mods manage their main feed algorithmically by opening to 3rd party provider - great place to start that experiencementation! Have a « create/join channel » button on every website for people to follow on the conversation - maybe a @metamask snap? Turn channel circles in Warpcast to stories about top posts from specific channels- basically if you are trending in one, you get some love by being on prime real estate. Better make possible to set dynamically by channel mod.

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Reorient channels around ongoing discussions rather than top-level casts The back-and-forth discourse is one of the best parts of Farcaster, lean into that with the niches that channels create It’s not obvious which casts (even in the main feed) have a lot of discussion going on around them since more replies doesn’t bump them to the top Pair this with a channel-specific reputation system and it gives people a reason to check channels they care about and participate in conversations

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I feel like channels are pretty straight forward and serve their purpose so it’s hard to pinpoint something for channels specifically that would drive network growth but there are some nice to haves Dynamic UI would definitely be cool. Give creators some customization options to make their channel have its own look and feel to differentiate from others. I noticed some channels pop up under search but a top channels page is definitely helpful for new users. When I was new to Reddit I definitely used the top communities page. Maybe the algo can rank them by the users engaging in the channel and filtering out spammy users, rather than just ranking them by total followers.

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