1/ 🧵

The NFT world's fate is currently tied to the shortcomings of Discord as the defacto platform.

The only way to stay in the loop is to stay glued in.

The only way to not miss something is to read everything.

Scams abound.

Threads are never used.

It's chaos.

2/ Conversations don't end on the weekend. Or in your timezone, or in your language. 9-5 has been replaced by 24/7.

Instead of a few inboxes we have 200 servers with 50 channels each.

There's no place to see where you were mentioned.
No place to see just the important details.

3/ Yet, it's the best tool we have right now. The integrations, bots, and audience exists to make these projects possible, but we need a platform for messaging, vibing, informing and sharing that didn't actually make the FOMO worse.

(if this exists, please share)

4/ Why are we tweeting about this?

Yesterday, the Blergs Mods had to send out almost 75 DMs to early members (out of the first 250) who were on the Whitelist but, understandably had turned off notifications.

5/ Many didn't even know we had a mint date, or the other details about the project.

(It's next weekend BTW)

Many of them had completely disabled the ability to DM (because that's smart) and even the ability to be added as a friend.

6/ We have no way to notify these people that they have a slot saved for them. They may know, but likely we're just 1 in a sea of 200 servers.

The Blerginning is just a 400 qty project. We don't have that many people to keep in touch with and it's still not scaling.

7/ What happens if/when the project grows? How much are the users going to be willing to stay tuned in?

Are the tools we use for community contributing to the speed teams need to work at? Is there even a place for slow, methodical community and growth?

8/ The rapid pace projects need to maintain also isn't going to help creators.

Are owners just in search of quick returns?

Or are they asking because their attentions are constantly being overloaded by all of the other projects?

9/ No one can pay attention to everything, and they shouldn't have to.

NFTs are an amazing technology. Not only the art, but the authentication, access, and potential utility that they provide.

10/ They can change the way software is accessed, the way venture capital is raised, the relationship between brands and consumers.

It's an exciting world to build inside of and the people here are, on the whole, compassionate, helpful, and decent.

11/ With Blergs, we're trying to build something that's more paced. That won't require people to be tuned in 24/7, and that won't burn us out as creators.

Something that keeps improving but has a vision longer than a month out or the next mint.

12/ Building products is hard and takes time, planning, and motivation. Hopefully this web3 world allows those principles to exist.

Everyone harps on community for these projects. Let's hope we can find ways for them to feel more like conversation and less like a shouting match.