Groups should be a social layer on top of markets instead of a much crappier Discord-replacement

• We should do more to emphasize markets as the primary content
  • Make questions the first tab in the Groups view, or
  • Move chat to a sidebar
    • Would become a tab on mobile
• Allow embedding markets
• What is the use case of Chat?
  • [i] Has been really enjoying it in Colorado, Food Sins
  • [G] Mexifold: useful to have markets updating based on things that were happening in the room. Helped Gavriel find a market really quickly
  • Searching from a group is much easier
• [S] New user experience: When you show up, you want to see the questions, not the chat
  • Normal apps don’t dump you right in the middle
    • [Gavriel] But not things that are “only” for chatting
    • If you see a bubble on the bottom right, something you can click on and chat, minimize
• [i] Just don’t bet on markets as much as Ian chats, so want chats
• [Quinn] Twitch and Reddit have a heirarchy
  • Creator, mods, etc - might be able to allow more structure if you’re willing to nominate mods
  • Group creator decides if there’s chat or not
    • Lesswrong: Commenting norms. You can adjust commenting norms per-post
    • Leeway to suggest the kind of chat you’d want to see on your posts, could be extended to Manifold questions?
    • [J] +1 for this option
• Some groups where chat doesn’t make sense; other groups where chat is primary focus
• [i] If it’s a beta feature, people might end up not using it
  • Beta feature

[mqp] Groups vision from Austin was to have low-friction for new Manifold users to engage in some kind of community behavior; easier than joining Discord

• Different than “commenting on markets”
• Would want to hear what kind of behavior new users would really want to do, that we could enable in a low-friction way
  • Help-desk style “how Manifold works”
  • Getting a sense of “Manifold is alive”
  • Sending a direct message to ask about a specific market

[i] Food Sins - random user created an interesting type of market

• Wanted to create more markets like this; joined his group, started chatting about what the group is for, how do markets work

[Q] Want Manifold homepage to be made up of markets in groups I’ve opted into. Avoid all silly markets

• eg just remove group from curated homepage

[A, Q, G] wasn’t clear that For You could exist

• [A] Could make “For You” and other filters ⇒ bubbles on the top to show what’s possible
  • [J] I like this. Maybe I will do this.

“About”:

• Should be renamed to or split into another tab for “Members”
• Do more to get users to add their friends
  • “Share” ⇒ “Invite”
    • Make more visually prominent
  • Potentially field to put in friends’ emails

Current sidebar feels cluttered

• I would remove it entirely
• Move “add questions” button to main panel

Groups side bar looks good

• We should cache values so it loads instantly when you reload the page

Groups main page

• “Leave” button too visually prominent — should also appear within groups page
• Greater density might be good
  • Can’t see that many groups from the main page