fc-updates

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.

要追踪的数据指标
1、新版channel每日发布cast的人数和互动数
2、不同规模下的channel的活跃度
3、观察发布者运营动力的持续性

新版本的channel做了积极的尝试，很期待13k的channels中，哪一个可以作为标杆跑出来。另外，新用户进来选择channel是一个很好的找到组织和兴趣点的机制，只是在选择推荐的channel时比较有挑战，尤其是当前阶段