Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
just realized this thread omits the concept of channels entirely…
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@links
There's no way for a channel to be a community hub right now. If the Merkle team had conviction on communities being their growth factor, they'd build ways for that to be possible, but they don't, so they won't.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What would you do differently?
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@links
Hard for me to say, since you have data that I don’t. Your roadmap shows no channel work, which tells me the latest channel changes haven’t created the kind of impact you need to invest in channels right now. If you’re asking how I’d make a channel a community hub, the big issue is that you can’t JUST exist on FC like you can FB or Reddit. Anyone seriously building a community here has to build a website and other tech infrastructure to run their community. Most people building a community don’t want to do that. So how can you make a channel “standalone”? I don’t know, but it likely has one foot in FC and one foot out. People need to be able to interact without an FC account, and that’s really hard with the current UI. Channels are at a local maximum, people have gotten used to their current form. It’s gonna take something pretty big to either shake up peoples’ perception or enable a new behaviour.
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@links
Some ideas: * create some new channel UIs that people can choose from (ie masonry layout for image channels, forum layout for word channels) * have every dev in MM run their own channel and see what kinds of tools they make to enable themselves * put a bunch of work into the “non-logged-in” view of a channel page which allows people to interact without signing up (ie read posts, view events) All feedback given in good faith, and I’m aware I don’t have the full story. If I was seriously building a channel community I would stop after I read v’s roadmap post. If I feel that way I am sure others do too, so I am being open with you about why.
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