Varun Srinivasan
@v
@nikitabier has made a counter point which I’ve come to appreciate which is that adding friction in onboarding is not always a bad thing. If it helps meaningfully with retention and engagement, it’s often worth doing. For us, requiring pfp only causes a 0.1% dropoff but makes real profiles look more legit and spammer easy to identify
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tomato
@tomatoxyz
gatekeeping entry to communities usually leads to higher quality users and contributions. Avatars are a bit of an annoying one because people don't always have an image handy that they want to use. But I have seen some apps that require you to select interests and a whole bunch of other bullshit that is needlessly frustrating and feels like it shouldn't prevent the user from skipping forward straight to the actual website/app so they can discover it themselves. People don't need an infantile tutorial on how to find things in this day and age. I think the balance is between letting people see an app/website before they can sign up and in the case of warpcast (i.e. when I go to warpcast.com) you can't currently do it (unless you follow a direct link to a cast). That is -much- worse that requiring an avatar for signup because it forces people to sign up just to see what is on warpcast - you probably unknowingly lost way more than a "0.1% dropoff" because of that.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
nah we tried that experiment, didnt convert well at all. there's a good reason why no other social network does it either.
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tomato
@tomatoxyz
Interesting... I guess something on the landing page that at least shows a hive of activity might entice users a bit more then, something like: https://firehose3d.theo.io/ (not necessarily an elaborate 3D thing like that, but at least something showing interest). Many web3 websites/apps I have used require signup and then you join and it is a ghost town (I only go through the sign up part because I'm researching different projects, not because I'm an actual user)
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