What would make channels better for you? (Beyond permissionless creation which is coming.)
Think it would be interesting to try a channel that has no reactions or comments. Old school irc like feel.
Ability to customize the order in which channels are displayed. Ability to sub filter posts by user or keyword within a channel.
Left to right order personalization based on engagement (or post/read usage over time)
Ability to reorder them by dragging
Ability to filter the feeds based on likes, replies, recasts. Top daily, weekly, monthly, all time. Are private/token-gated channels off the table for now?
I think they’re great, adoption and usage will take time. Also, I’m an WC DAU and I didn’t understand how to use a channel til yesterday, just saying.
Gated and private channels for content-focused communities
Algorithmically put channel posts on my home feed if they’re of interest to me (regardless of whether someone in my network has recasted). Too much work to browse all channels independently
i kind of wish there was an "all channels" tab that aggregates all the channels i follow 🤷🏻♀️ or even an "all" tab that combines home and followed channels
Would be nice to be able to sort them in order of personal importance.
Curious how to prevent conflicting overlap of channels - eg two “books” channels with diff nfts created by diff clients - causing confusion or division of attention across the protocol. Or not a problem in your eyes
ability to set up channels with maturity, e.g. channel ends and disappears some time after an event
New UX Horizontal scrolling is still an issue on my Pixel 7. It scrolls smoothly now but there is some sort of bounding issue that causes the horizontal scroll and the swipe to open the side panel to fight each other. Many times I want to scroll the channels and instead the side panel opens.
allow scroll direction config(up or down), so that a channel could work like a discord channel(newest at bottom) or twitter timeline(news at top) @unlonely @briang this could make some channel work like a giant group chat
Support them on desktop/web, put them in the sidebar like telegram does.
Long tap on the icon and it switches between algo . Most popular / feed from people I know etc etc
Over time, the large # of channels will eventually make it difficult for users to parse through and find the channels they are interested in Filtering, organizing by category/subcategory, & utilizing progressive disclosure might help with reducing cognitive overload and improving signal to noise ratio
click a channel -> see # of subscribers and see mutuals that have subscribed to that channel
Better visual separation (themes) More metadata: best posts, description
Unread channels (purple dot) should always migrate to the left of channels where you’ve caught up
Channels that can be defined with a custom but public algorithm.
Something I've been curious about regarding permissionless creation -- do you have ideas on a framework for trying to make sure there isn't so much replication that it's hard to find the core channel on a given topic? Maybe something like mutually approved channel merges?