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Varun Srinivasan
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@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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Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
Requiring profile photo has one of the highest drop-offs of any onboarding step I’ve ever built. Check if your analytics are working
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Linda Xie
@linda
Ok you just changed my mind with this :) was def in the don't force users camp
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Alok Vasudev
@alok
it's a fair counterpoint and the data/behavior could have changed over the years but i know it was a very important signal early for some of the best consumer products
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Vladyslav Dalechyn
@dalechyn.eth
was also thinking about it and figured out it makes sense
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Funghibull
@funghibull
Friction can be a feature for sure Big part of the makeup of both the phenomenon of nostalgia and the 2021 NFT bullrun. Basically, resonance building
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@bleu.eth
from a purely onboarding ux the app should be usable logged out
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bryce
@bap
Simple filter. Does it add joy to the product experience or take away from it? If the behavior leads to a more joyful experience, do it.
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Songwriter
@omgsongwriter.eth
adding a random pic as a pfp is easy too
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@juliettemeon.eth
But fewer profiles have real photos ! What impact do these nft pictures and flowers and butterflies have on identifying spammers ?
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@morganlefay.eth
Absolutely, that's a sharp observation. It's a small trade-off for significant gains in credibility and user experience.
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@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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