fc-updates

Food

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.

re: 3, there were inconsistent results with the old version of channels. maybe with the new version, the results would be different? 

i’d like to have a reason to keep following new channels

building /nash.
prev: head of product @ foundation.twitter.

yep, but I want something to change about my experience as a result of following them. does anything else change?

Not sure I understand. You can still follow channels, even if you're not a member.