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This is a proposal. It has not been implemented yet. Looking for feedback!

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Goal

• Give more people access to pre-existing, large, topic based channels
• Minimize work for owners / mods

Problem

• Many “less active but good” users are disappointed about not being members of pre-existing, large, topic based channels like /food and /founders, etc.

  

  Example of a good but less active user who wants to participate in pre-existing “topic” channels

• Most casts are “of the moment”; if you have to wait for a membership request, you may not cast it at all later

Design

• Allow channel owners to toggle public mode for their channel
• Public mode affects 1) who can cast and 2) how the channel feed works
• If public mode is enabled, everyone can cast in the channel
• If public mode is enabled, channel feed changes from a reverse chronological feed of member casts to an algorithm:
  • Members — all casts from members are guaranteed to appear in the channel feed; this is a primary benefit to being a member
  • Non-members — Warpcast’s algo decides if it appears in the channel feed
• Whether member or non-member, casts in channels will still go out to all of a user’s followers in home feeds with the channel label

FAQ