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[i] Made a bunch of changes to try and make it better
[c] Do we track search usage? How do we tell if search has gotten better...
[J] It's declined a bit
[S] But so has overall site usage
[i] Asking if people are frustrated or not; "does it work for you"

hard for me to tell how bad this compares to the other issues on this list, just because I don't really get Manifund day to day looks like (nor do i need to, just pointing out in context of this ranked list)

[D] If there's no super juicy ongoing news, there's less excitement to trade about it.
Even during a dry news cycle, we should be able to highlight/surface "this is what's going on"
Feels like we have this automatic feed, which just shows you some things. Even non-interesting things we could make become interesting.
News websites do this (click-baity titles, overexaggerate) but we should figure out how to do this while remaining true to Manifold

[J] Might just be the pattern
[D] Kind of out of our control?
The preview especially sucks -- only good for people who knows about Manifold already. Could try to be more call to action. RN just a weird squiggly line with some numbers, leading you to a strange crypto-looking app

[S] Can create some mockups

@Wobbles VS markets, ads, stocks, etc

[c] Types don't work; seed.sql sucks. When trying to build a simple feature "money goes into a thing and goes somewhere else"

Most frustrating part was working with Supabase. (Perhaps too used to Vercel?) there has to be a better way

[J] We should strive for a better dev experience; should tackle these problems and come up with a better overall path for adding new features and adding tables and migrating stuff

Agreements with the rant?

[S] Absolutely
[J] Reminder that SQL is super powerful -- so pros and cons
[C] Worse experience for simple stuff, it feels

@Wobbles u have to wait one month for each secret alt u made ;)

@DavidChee that would take approx 12 years

@Austin agreed, I feel like my most productive conversations are when talking with 2-3 ppl for 10-20 minutes randomly outside of standup

[D] Standup sometimes feels like fluff; but afterwards has a productive conversation in the room. Not captured in standup because too many people; too many discussed in detail (others don't need to have a say or be involved)

Perhaps be more picky over what we gloss over vs discussing

[A] Will own this as an area to improve

most important. This itself indicates a lack of use of markets in news, answering cool new questions that a lot of people care about, or people having a lot more fun/interest than before.

It is a reasonable proxy for how much total value we are actually delivering to people

@ian Multi-choice / Free response still DPM and can't buy NO

@JamesGrugett Oops meant to post on https://manifold.markets/JamesGrugett/manifold-team-april-retro-what-went

@JamesGrugett we coulda done a lot more! no one came with me to the bar :(