Homepage Redesign
Following the GIVernance call today I would invite anyone who would like to see changes in the homepage design to follow and comment on this thread - Improving the Homepage
Thoughts
I like the idea of updating our default “quality score” metrics to something more robust - changing the project ranking however looks to be very complicated, we just got it working only just a few weeks ago with the launch of GIVpower and we do not yet know how this plays out over time and what truly will be the pros and cons of the current new default ranking model.
Budget box (Pairwise) will definitely be a cool addition but there’s currently no idea of what user group will be included to participate in this product and how to go about getting them tokens to participate.
#4 - Impact Evaluator Opinion - seems very interesting, I can say from talks with other web3 fundraising platforms such as gitcoin and inverter there is a lot of interest in creating a model of “proof-of-projecthood” badges or attestations, we’re currently working on some sort of project registry in this regard for the implementation of GIVfi.
For this point as well we would want to avoid any lengthy and recurring manual processes for the verification team to have to go through or else this will build scaling changes later on down the road. The devil is in the details on this one - looks good on paper, but I’m skeptical of how this would work practically.
A short rant on the “Giveth plutocracy”
I tend to disagree with this general panic over GIVpower/Project Ranking being plutocratic - I think this is the system we sought to build from day 1, functioning normally and now seemingly over the last month it’s turned into a moral crisis. We decided collectively to build a donor-driven donation platform and to reward and empower those who give.
This is how the system is supposed to work - you make a donation, you get GIV and then you get to do a bunch of cool stuff within Giveth with your tokens.
The “plutocracy” are the people funding projects - they are the ones donating and fuelling the purpose of Giveth, does it seem like we shouldn’t be giving them power?
If this doesn’t seem right then we should revisit what our goals are and what our mission is, but to me it looks like we’re building the system that we promised to deliver.