Feels so good to read blog posts directly from a Farcaster client.
I actually started Kiwi News with an activist mindset to re-enable linking out from an app. Yes, to a degree I built the site as a PWA so that it was cheaper for me to develop, but I also thought that links were broken on the big platforms as it‘s their incentive to keep you in the app to show better engagement metrics. Is this happening here? It surely is happening for X de-boosting (Substack) links. It is happening to a degree with Paragraph‘s mini app, maybe in a positive way, where the views of an article are now counted towards the WC algorithm. I hope this will still allow us to exist. I think our way is better. Maybe not from a UX smoothness experience, but because we give users freedom to take the link and we‘re not clingy. You can leave our app, bye bye. But also pls come back 😸 lol Still, I think it is scary that WC and Paragraph move to „serve writers“ with a mini app. I‘d rather have them be busy onboarding their next billion users! That‘s what they said they‘d do! That said, can we also implement the Paragraph mini app view on Kiwi? Is there an API for this?
I think people should be allowed to pick their own reading experience. So as an option sure, it's nice to have. I don't like reading inside of WC cause it's noisy, and crowded and the context just doesn't feel right. I read most of the articles either through my inbox or later in the day on my remarkable/e-reader without the noise :)
> Feels so good to read blog posts directly from a Farcaster client. Is this true? We do the weekly community calls on X for Kiwi and the Twitter timeline is incredibly distracting. So much so that one can almost not concentrate on the content of the call. The same is true for Warpcast. When I open that app, I basically forget all my priorities and just start scrolling or reacting to notifications. I get dragged into drama, etc. What does feel good about reading on Warpcast? That you remain comfortable in your dopamine addiction? Not a good pattern for me
Initially I was thinking nice idea, might be good for propagating of content. But now I found out it locks you in not happy at all with this new feature. Indeed the problem is that you cannot choose to open it outside of Warpcast as a webpage, what I would typically want. I also don’t want to read in-feed, it’s suboptimal and not the moment I want to deep read stuff. Mostly I collect articles in open windows in my browser to read them when I have time. Also very bad is links in articles don’t work! This is just totally anti what internet makes great: hyperlinks. And bad for Kiwi too, since you can’t copy the url, you’d have to backtrack the article to curate it. Anyway if someone who created these paragraph mini-apps is reading this, please activate hyperlinks and please have an one-click option to open the article as a webpage. Thanks.