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The amount of FC related groups popping up on telegram is wild. Honestly kind of funny that it's taken so long. TG hasn't changed in ways relevant to these groups. WC has changed/improved a lot. The home feed focused experience is unsatisfactory. It's noisy, nudges disingenuous activity, and totally ignores community. Channels actually could compete with telegram, particularly for large communities. The problem is channel UX and notifications. TG is high signal and I can tinker notis where necessary. Everything in there is still of value. As it stands, no shot I'm turning on WC's notis. That would be a lot of effort, and as @zinger noted yesterday, the noti format is yikes. Make channels mini-apps for communities -prioritize channel UX/UI -subchannels/linked channels -first party mod -lots of other things Nft gated GC's are not going to compete with tg lol

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Grouping channels user-side (folders) and admin-side (linked; subcategories) is so unbelievably important and overdue. Some basic flexibility and customization is essential for community products.

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It's kind of funny, re your high signal point I feel exactly the opposite. Telegram is low signal for me, most stuff there is spam or large group chats that I mute and don't check. I also mute gc's on warpcast, but if I get a noti here I know it's important. That said I completely agree re channel experience being subpar. Can't remember if it was @zinger or @kia.eth that said they're warpcast "hashtags you pay $25 for". even if I wanted to create channels around events for example, I couldn't, and there would be no reason to.

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We add more features to channels: no change to metrics. We add more features to DCs: metrics go up. Solve for X. People already find basic channels confusing. Adding more complexity to channels is unlikely to solve it.

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I'm very ignorant when it comes to telegram— how do you find high signal chats? In my limited experience it's just been moonboi pump groups. I see a lot of people talk fondly of telegram but never found the signal people talk about!

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I think group chats have their place but I definitely think a unified home feed that pulls from all of your channels is a good thing, probably the biggest thing that Telegram is missing It's a lot of work to check each thing individually, better to just have an algo sort the "best" stuff from each bucket and show me that (yes you might miss some stuff but way less work and users are lazy) The chore of clearing all notifications is what lead to Discord fatigue last cycle and Telegram (and DC) fatigue now, ultimately just leads to users muting and checking out

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> TG is high signal and I can tinker notis where necessary. Everything in there is still of value. You don't want to see my Telegram. :)

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a telegram group can have topics, bots, moderators, games... it's normal that we chat in there and have fun in here

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Yeah channels and group chats in their current formats are better served by Telegram in many ways Recently had an idea for making channels more interesting https://warpcast.com/markfishman/0x8dec75d5

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Agreed, and as for channel improvements, how about custom themes up first? Let us customize our cozy corner, after all, cultural customs are what make things cozy and known

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Largely agree but gotta say that I join occasionally a token chat on telegram and almost always regret it within the first minute and then exit again. Only the private chats, heavily modded chats provide value. Channels need to up their game with auto-filter, modding, then they have a solid shot at longer conversations and content worth keeping around (not basic chatter)

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Also sending voice notes to community on TG helps a lot in communicating and administering the groups which we lack here.

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All of this is really on point. I have also noticed that a lot of TG channels mentioning things on Farcaster lately. I've had 4 separate people say they shared my channel /success with their TG groups in the last 2 weeks. Channels are one of the bigger ways that Warpcast can differentiate, so I hope they listen to some of this.

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One another problem, if you are writing in language other than english the sorting might be corrupted and this need to be fixed

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I totally agree with all these.

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