October Retro: What could have gone better?
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Performance of home page (rendering time) has gotten worse
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Exposing user emails
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Not as much midterms traffic, linking as hoped
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Posts aren't getting much usage
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Firebase and Vercel bills getting huge
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Groups not getting much usage
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Groups/posts can be further optimised (eg. if u get linked to a post u have no easy way to go to the group).
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dreams & pictures on cards
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V assassination
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Still no multiple choice markets in GUI :(
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Still no replacement for pseudonumeric markets
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Loans apparently timing out

Where did we drop the ball? The point of this isn't to point fingers or assign blame, but rather to identify where our processes and strategy are not serving us well.

Mostly, this market is for the Manifold team; don't expect the probabilities, etc to mean much other than like a subjective vote on how much you agree with a particular statement, or how much you want to discuss it.

Last time: https://manifold.markets/JamesGrugett/september-retro-what-could-have-gon

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V assassination

@Yev is @v confirmed

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Groups not getting much usage

[D] Would short this one. Destiny group is getting a ton of usage; people are just quick-betting through the group

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Groups/posts can be further optimised (eg. if u get linked to a post u have no easy way to go to the group).

[D] New user funnel of landing on a post, but they wouldn't find the associated group or similar groups. Instead they'd go to the home page.

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Exposing user emails

[c] It's not that clear how they should report this to us privately. Added to the about page language

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Not as much midterms traffic, linking as hoped

[S] Worth doing, but not a runaway success.

[A] It was a bet, but it hasn't paid out

[J] A few days left. Scott linked to us.

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Firebase and Vercel bills getting huge
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Firebase and Vercel bills getting huge

@Austin Vercel:

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Posts aren't getting much usage

[A] We're missing something because people aren't writing up much of their thoughts on Manifold as posts. Need to get more content.

[F] More stand alone posts have been created. Have been featuring them. Could make them easier to create.

[A] In the newsletter we could feature posts. Could create the newsletter in a post!

[D] Impossible to find posts. Post doesn't appear in the latest posts of group.

@JamesGrugett Posts need more discoverability. Once they are not featured they basically end in the void.

Posts are also hard to share well. One of the reasons I keep advocating support for ActivityPub on Manifold is that it would make it much easier to share on Mastodon & the like. Users would be able to interact with the posts/markets without making an account, which lowers the barrier of entry quite a bit

It wouldn't be very hard to make a bridge if all we cared about were shares, comments, and likes. I would need a slightly more privileged version of the API (to post comments with a different display name), but I think it would be pretty straightforward

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Posts aren't getting much usage

seems to be an issue of discoverability

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Performance of home page (rendering time) has gotten worse

[J] Did some profiling, takes a few hundred milliseconds

In the app, you expect it to be fast when clicking on notifs. But it's incredibly slow. Homepage to Notifications takes a while to destroy divs? Rerendering a few more times while navigating away from home. Perf in general is really important, we have to keep coming back and make perf better.

Portfolio page is better now that iw chagned it to not load a billion data points.

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spoooooky spun out car represents performance issues