I honestly appreciate this change, there is a world in which this can feel and look good beyond the abstract version that requires a bit more contract & token expertise than likely most artists / collectors who haven’t ventured into the defi / trading side of this universe. Even if this were fully fleshed out, simple to understand and execute to a degree that any recently onboarded (novice) user was able to digest, see the value and utilize. The elephant in the room is still the main purpose for most artists to even use a platform. Discovery / visibility / reach. If this would have rolled out months ago before changes to following / discover & the search feeds. It might have had a chance to be better received. But when the “today/new” feed is truncated to displaying only a few select mystery mints instead of real time. At the same time the following / discover user feeds are congested with seeing the same popular thing everyone is minting and at the cost of not seeing new things created by the people you follow. It makes it hard for new or existing artists, collectors to feel good about secondary markets when the same mechanics used in the legacy platforms that made pivoting even make sense. Have been implemented in an ecosystem where discovery & reach are tied to possibility of monetary incentives. and to be clear, if I was benefitting from this existing model even at the highest level it still wouldn’t feel good because it’s a transparently broken model easily manipulated. I say this all with love. I’m definitely not the only one who notices or is disappointed in this taking place. I’m just less inclined to put my self preservation over making an attempt to signal “There is glaring, unhealthy flaw” when it’s still early enough to course correct and patch the bugs.
If those unhealthy bugs aren’t an oversight & are instead the intended function. I don’t mind that being communicated directly so I don’t keep wasting time trying to hold onto Hope that this is something we can return to championing and recommending 🫂
