Warpcast algo surfacing older posts makes me want to reply less frequently

Replying to a post from 10 minutes ago is more likely to feel like a live conversation than replying to something from 6 hours ago

Put /the-arena on /bracket 

Bet on which founders make it to the end

I love gamification where incentives are aligned

the-arena

Bracket.Game ⚽️

ROUND 6 of /the-arena starts today at 9am PT! 

We have 38 players this week

RULES

You have 12 hours (until 9pm PT today) to:
- share what you've shipped this week in the channel feed — to stay in the arena
- if this is your first week in /the-arena, start with a concise 1 liner on what project you're building

e.g. "I'm building /frens, a crypto messaging app. This week we shipped..."

The arena is for builders who ship. Builders who don't ship will be promptly thrown out of the arena 

LFG 🚢

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FAQs:

What happens if I don't ship?
- You will be thrown out of the arena this weekend

How are you keeping track of this?
- on this google sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mJI0bw7tDYfI3oNiVsKk7xSdhYGYReca1x6v1d4MPMc/edit?usp=sharing

New product idea for Bountycaster: Request for proposals

Pay for a posting, get back multiple quotes and pitches

User Experience

/product-design | startup advisor | casting in /meesh | prev. @ reddit, okta (personal), lilblockparty.wtf, common.xyz, etc.

Web3 newsletters & publishing.

We automatically summarize and cast about the best posts on Paragraph.

Curating human insight | Follow @survey for polls | Visit weponder.io for more | By @ba and @cojo.eth

The Social Onchain Browser. Download the app at roam.xyz.

Your memories, onchain. Open to all now! :·> moshi.cam 
/moshicam

Turns out all of our /ux livestreams were indeed recorded!

Not going to share publicly (yet?) but I'll be clipping relevant parts and sending to the teams whose products @meesh & I have reviewed

cc @ponder @ampcast @moshicam @paragraph @roamxyz Cozycast (@vidhatha @deveshb15)

/new-york x /gardening crew!

Walked by this empty planter and scanned the QR code, which is a call for “100 farms on 100 rooftops”

https://www.joinmulch.com/

Grassroots attempt at bringing green spaces into nyc, starting with rooftops

Gardening

Base Colors meetup #1 is in the books!

📍NYC

I took this photo. Everyone else agreed to hide faces with their favorite base colors. @base_colors is a pro-pseudonymity community, but it's a practical pseudonymity. Happy to get together in person.

+ check out the live counter!

I like the phrase “practical pseudonymity”

I’m back from vacation, so it’s time for another livestream!

Come hang with me and @meesh again on /unlonely

What products should we review?

https://events.xyz/events/b5bc15

We're live! Come hang
https://www.unlonely.app/channels/uxfeedback

Wild how much the Dems and Reps have switched vibes in the past few days

The right is now the side complaining about fairness while the left blissfully memes

One interesting tailwind of Biden dropping out for the Democrats is other members of the party can do more campaigning

the problem before was every Democrat who made public appearances would make Biden look bad in comparison

I'm excited for the day that Hypersub gets abstracted into existing products

instead of "check out my Hypersub", it's just "check out my ___" with STP built in

Public shoutouts on positive experiences you have with a product or content help so much. I'm constantly sharing screenshots on Twitter of nice things people say about Bountycaster or including them when we apply for grants. Doesn't take a ton of effort but it means a lot to founders/builders

One of the main things I want to do with these /ux livestreams is put a spotlight on products I want to support

We’ve framed these shows as critiques but in reality @meesh and I are only highlighting projects we think should exist

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

It's important to call out, the starting feed is still curated by Warpcast. 

The big difference is that we learn your preferences faster. If we show you casts from someone and you don't like them, we'll stop showing you that user pretty quickly.

tldr – the Warpcast “auto-follow” list is now an “auto-suggested” list, based on categories selected during onboarding

Some users still get a boost, but they need to earn the follows now

There’s no great way to test this, but I wonder if the design of social platforms has an effect on IRL behavior

lot of confounding factors, but for example does being an “Instagram person” make you behave differently than a “Twitter person”

the numbers on polymarket's buttons have always been confusing to me.

it presents the price per outcome you want to bet, which is the least useful information, imho.

i always feel embarrassed by how much time it takes to realize that the price per bet corresponds to the percent of that outcome (i.e. 64¢ means 64% odds).

i also have no desire to think about betting in terms of "shares." i just want to bet $100 on yes or no and quickly determine how much i'd make if i win.

which of these button patterns accomplishes that?

https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x5abf0c04ab7196e2bdd19313b479baebd9f7791b/184

The UX of betting is pretty bad imo

No matter how many times I ask friends to explain it to me, I can’t get myself to intuitively understand what -220 means

Free critique for events.xyz 😎

I loved creating this event with a composer action! Wish I could also edit & manage the event from the frame it created

(taking inspo from Bountycaster)

Unlonely

I’m back from vacation, so it’s time for another livestream!

Come hang with me and @meesh again on /unlonely

What products should we review?

✏️ What are you planning to write about this week?

/ux researcher & /angeluser playing infinite games | building /firstdraft

Mark Fishman

@markfishman