What would this look like?

• Add a feed for each user which contains their markets, reposts, large trades, large wins/losses.
  • [s] this part seems the least essential to me. As long as the home feed is good, and users can access their content from their profile pages, an extra feed per user seems superfluous
  • [d] yeah this is somewhat hidden. But everyone you follow’s feed should be incorporated into your home “for you feed”. But I still think this is good to have.
• Add the ability to repost/quote-repost markets, comments, trades, and resolutions.
• Add the ability to post content to your feed (basically tweets)
• Add “recommended people to follow” and generally make following and follower count more prominent.

Use-cases this improves

• Really improves people’s “for you feed” + allows for sub-communities to form
• Currently no way for users to provide a strong signal/share something on Manifold they found interesting
  • Eg. Twitter has retweeting, Instagram has sharing to story/dms, Facebook has reposting
  • Current path on Manifold = See a comment/market that is interesting, take a screenshot and share it elsewhere (but not on Manifold).
  • This makes the curation of Manifold content worse and makes it harder for sub-communities/spheres to form as you see on other sites.
• People don’t care about followers and aren’t incentivised to follow people
  • It’s the number people care about the most on things like Twitter. We should leverage this social desire too.
  • Makes it harder for sub-communities to form.
  • Less likely to see your friend’s actions
  • One of the most powerful features on other social media sites is: “Recommended people/people you may know”
• Tweets/short-form posts!
  • Let the people speak!!
  • Also, this doesn’t have to be short form, could be long form and allow ppl to do brief analysis of markets to share to their followers.

To do for MVP

• Add new tab on each user’s profile page called “feed”, this should be the first tab and new default (instead of portfolio). It contains in chronological order:
  • Posts
  • New markets created by the user
  • Reposts
• Add ability for users to create a post
  • IMO this shouldn’t be under the create a question button. Instead this should be at the top of the for you feed if on home, or the top of you user feed if on your profile page similar to twitter.
  • Mockup
• Add repost button on comments, trades, markets and posts
  • Clicking it asks whether you want to just repost or if you want to quote repost
• Incorporate content from people’s feeds that you follow into your “for you” home feed. This includes things like reposted comments and trades, not just markets.

To do after MVP/if easy

• Add the following content items to each user’s profile feed
  • Markets that resolved that they had large shares in (maybe calculate based on wins/loss relative to their portfolio value. Include anything over 10% of their portfolio value).
  • Whenever the creator resolves one of their markets it should be “reposted” to their feed automatically.
  • Trades that are >10% of the users portfolio value
• Add “recommended people to follow”
• Add on-hover when hovering on a user. This shows their bio, how many followers they have, and who you know that follows them, and a follow button that you can click within the popup without having to navigate somewhere else to follow them.
  • Like this
  • Tbh this is something we should do regardless of whether we go ahead with this project or not.