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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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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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@dalechyn.eth
was also thinking about it and figured out it makes sense
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@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.base.eth
@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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@mnsis.eth
Is it really a barrier? People can easily upload any random picture from their gallery. It doesn’t take any extra effort for those who don’t care, so it’s not something that would drive them away from the app altogether!
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Songwriter
@songwriter
adding a random pic as a pfp is easy too
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Juliettemeon.degen.eth
@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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@mostafa1992
Agree
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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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