If you could prioritize our next in-feed UX improvement: 1. Long form text (make screenshot essays better, e.g. actual text) 2. Animated GIFs 3. Video (hosted somewhere else) 4. Audio (hosted somewhere else) 5. UI for a "live" broadcast somewhere else 6. NFTs (OpenSea links, full image rendering) 7. Other (specify)
2, 3 (on ipfs), 5 (integrate @unlonely already), 6 (but just so that my pfp is finally animated, i'm still waiting)
Prioritise in the following order: 3, 2, 6, 5 Deprioritise completely: 4, 1
1,3,4 7 - wonder how many peeps want to attach multiple files per post
7) honestly you need polls first to make these questions easier but my real answer is 2 & 3
7. Linking cold wallets - perhaps through Vulcan
Non-consensus view, please no gifs -> easy dunk reactions, easy sarcasm, easy shade.
1. Auto ocr to extract text 4. OpenAI Whisper to extract transcript
for me for sure 1. - make it easier to have fully fleshed thoughts with nuance.
7. When I see a list of people to follow, more bio info. Not just username 2 1 6 5,4,3
I like that stack ranking, wouldn't change it. A 7th I'd like is a small mark on a caster's PFP to show if I'm already following them.
2 and 7 - when looking at someone's profile, a cleaner view of their individual casts (as opposed to a reply to someone). Similar to tweets vs. tweets & replies feed.
One other thought I had - it depends who are you building Farcaster for? Who is the next wave of user personas that you want as DAUs? Specificity drives stickiness, and helps prevent peanut buttering.
tbh twitter is/was a v lame format -- tumblr style multi-media is where it was at for rich community content
2 and 7! 7 as in recasting with cumulative context. Tumblr’s tag system was on a level of its own in the amount of tongue in cheek social commentary it facilitated. It’s a community’s lifeblood and I’d love to see the piercing subtleness of my teenage yesteryears brought back to a broader audience
1 & 3 stand out far from the rest. All others sound like purely nice to haves versus actual features. And perhaps 7 being polls, which would prevent you from having to do manual reply sorting like this — and it is a clearly better alternative than Twitter polls which are so, so easily game-able.
1 … 4 if you provide immediate transcription (e.g. using Whisper) 7 Multiple images 8 Polls no GIFs pls
2, 6 (prefer LooksRare, but realize there's API limitations), 3
7. Bookmarks/track likes 1. Love screenshot essays but I'd love it even more if it's stored natively - like an in-house twitlonger.
guess it depends, do you want to add something productive (long form, video, audio) or fun (GIFs, live, NFTs), both have value in their own way, just a question of what would lead to growth and engagement, or whatever else you're trying to achieve
Focus on NFTs pushes user base towards anon accounts? Or do doxxed people want to attach NFT wallets?
I’d love to be able to comment / cast / recast “activity” Either the actual activity or the nft(s) it related to. In a native feeling way.
7. poll (since it will make taking feedback exactly like this easier) it can have up to 10 choices though and time duration can be default only
1. Other: Improvements to displaying images (where image is centered during a cover). Multi-image posts a la twitter 2. Other: Ability to see only top level casts vs cast replies for a user on their profile 3. Long form text (make screenshot essays better, e.g. actual text) 4. Video (hosted somewhere else)
would 5 be setting up an embed twitch stream or something of that nature?
Looking at this cast, maybe polls should also been on this list?
7. Fix the UI sensitivity where the whole thing swipes right a little too easily
7. “Live long form text”. Clubhouse for text. Opens up a Google doc style editor. Owner can grant audience “cursor access” so they can type or comment. At the end of the session, it’s published as long form text cast. Also, polls.
1&2 One of my gripes with Twitter is that it overindexes on images and video (but I guess that’s solved via reverse chrono feed). 6 is ok. There is probably some of more interesting innovations with NFTs, might be better for a community project.
Polls would make sorting through these q’s much easier - a key differentiator feature if done well 👀
5. Definitely 5. Industry specific “Twitter Spaces” could be a huge draw
1 >> 2 >> 7 (hash tagging or some other grouping feature)
i’m surprised by how few people are prioritizing audio so far… i think it’s the best communication tool we have in web3. 4 all the way. if u wanna chat about it i have lots of thoughts
1, 3 7: experimenting with alerts/notifications for specific posts, and different ways to sort your feed or popular feed
2, 3, 4, 6 (like a case of 2?) I'd vote to not make: - 1 (I like the ss, feels weird to make long text a first-class citizen; messes up all the designs that assume a certain size/shape for casts) - 5 (I think about this as an async medium; worried about what happens when you introduce a synchronous medium)
If you do end up doing 3/4 later Arweave could be a good choice with their pay-once/permanent-storage model
6. NFTs… bring the ability to transfer and promote ownership of anything directly to social feeds
1) Long-form text that’s easy to browse but then you can click into it to go deeper and have a discussion. 7) Other - Allow for 3rd party curated Feeds in-app starting with a small whitelisted group. 👈 Getting this right would change the social medi game.
1 because it continues to drive high signal-to-noise ratio and more thoughtful conversations memes over gifs might be a feature
7. code snippets, if you want to target builders specifically. Or 1 or 6 for the sake of differentiation and experimentation. I know gifs are probably inevitable, but I’ve been really enjoying the lack of meme/reaction gifs on here. Sure they can be ok, but they often dilute.
i see a lot of 2s... figure that most animated gifs will be used as replies/reactions to casts. i wonder if this will play against your goal of pushing for deeper conversations since it's easier to post a gif instead of writing a (thoughtful) reply
New conversations. Suggested matching between casters with similar interests and question / discussion prompts. And polling
I'll say 1, 2, 7 (polls it would be great to avoid long threads)
7 what about Reacting with arbitrary emojis other than gm / heart Also 7 — What about QTs 1 I feel like is a tweetdeck style tool aka add on to do threading
I’d love to see a decentralized clubhouse / spaces type layer though it may be too early.
