Motivation:

• categories do not help build atomic networks. Communities are better but still not quite right

• Users want groups

  

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User-generated groups

• Users create groups and can add people to them
• Group mechanics:
  • the group gets a unique tag that only people in the group can use to tag markets
  • Each group has a page with # members, leaderboard/ranking for markets with that tag, and a join/follow button
  • the groups someone has made is listed on their profile
• Group market mechanics:
  • If you bet on one, you should be prompted to join the group after betting, or automatically added to that group if you’re a new user
    • if your friend shares a market with you, it should be in one of their groups so that by sharing a market, they are forming a network with you
  • maybe the leader can grant more granular read/write access to the tag?
• Discovery:
  • following tab will include markets tagged with your group tag
  • Search for groups to join
  • rank and display on right sidebar groups/tags with their profits, followers, markets, weekly gains, etc.

Proposals:

1. (P1) Anyone can create a group and add people to it
   1. Each group gets its own page where its own feed of markets is displayed, a chat wall for those in the group, and rankings for those who’ve profited the most in the groups’ markets
      1. What if multiple people go to create a ‘physics’ group? Should we just generate a unique tag and the group name appears the same?
   2. joining a group signs you up for market creation and resolution notifications for that group
   3. Where?

      1. Replaces /Home with a group for All & each category

      2. Replaces /Portfolio as each group will have its own portfolio calcs

      3. new icon at the bottom & in sidebar

         1. In sidebar it could be like

            

            

      4. Groups list could be ordered by which group you visited last or the one that most recently received a message

2. (P2):
   1. assign tags leaderboards

Ian’s notes

when I invite someone to manifold, I think the best experience they could have is to see markets that I’ve made/curated for their interests. If I’m inviting a friend it’ll be markets about things they’re interested in. If they’re a rationalist it’ll be markets about ACX, or EA topics, etc. If they’re a goofy, fun-loving friend they might be about our other friends’ chances at getting a girlfriend, or job, or what we’ll do for their birthday. The groups can be ephemeral, like markets created just for their birthday party

[Akhil] Tournaments are temporary communities around a particular topic

• Market collections
• Keep the product simple: Anything that we come up, waht takes care of the use cases without new features
• Tournaments, Market Collections, longer lasting communities
  • Stories that stay a while, then go away
  • Elon Musk & Twitter

When you could group communities by categories

• Depth vs Breadth - Akhil’s Product Suggestions
  • Dive into a community, and get into it
• Currently - having a tab feels pretty heavy, don’t know what Akhil will get by clicking on Science
• Used to use categories, percentages are low now…
• People are interested in science topics, expect them to click on categores more - why not?