Most of my casts are replies. Which apparently means nobody sees most of my casts.

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".

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.

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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same, which I think is a bad assumption on their end because the new user churn is downstream of there being good content on here

keeping replies more visible ➡️ better conversations ➡️ power users posting more ➡️ better content for new users to consume

north star should be diversity of people interacting with each other in the comments of popular posts which is exactly what @yesyes's analysis showed was reduced by removing reply bumping

I suspect they are fixated on some measure of "new user churn" more than anything, given some of the decisions I've seen.