Grants Round 8 Feedback

[owocki]

Lets use this thread to capture feedback from users on Grants Round 8.

Similar to https://github.com/gitcoinco/web/issues/7408 for round 7

[owocki]

tracking initial bug list here https://github.com/gitcoinco/web/issues/7947

[owocki]

my thinking is that the sybil resistence compounds (not grows linearly) when you very more accounts. so 1.05 * 1.05, not 1.05 + 1.05

we should maybe just show your current trust bonus on the tab .

[owocki]

android display issues https://twitter.com/Freddmannen/status/1334225847197327361

[owocki]

https://bits.owocki.com/BluQBNyP

8000 ETH donation in DB, but the txid was actually for 0.01 ETH, is it possible to fool the system with the amount put in. will the validator catch the amount diff?

[owocki]

S galaxy note 9 Metamask version 0.2.14 Android 10

Get this 502 on mm mobile and trust doesnt store the github authkey on login. Would love a nice mobile env would scroll and be more active

https://twitter.com/futjrn/status/1334354368418766849

[owocki]

@apbendi my https://gitcoin.co/owocki/trust page just took 20s to load in prod.

would it be possible to move get_brightid_status into an asyncronous call? upon profiling the page, it looks like that is what was holding up the pageload.

[owocki]

the 'anonymize my contribution' functionality only anonymizes the activity feed item and not the contribution tab + the contributors tab.

we should make it so that the transaction tab + contribution tab are both anonymized too. but the CLR.py code should still be aware of who the unqiue contributors are.

[owocki]

Connor O'Day Has anyone looked into whether Grants donations could be tax deductible? From what I understand, I think the recipient would have to be a registered non-profit, but I’m not entirely sure. It might be worth looking into how we can encourage grantees to register as such and if we can provide some type of tax friendly receipt to donors in the future. Especially if we’re entering another bull market year, this could be a good selling point. I’d rather donate more to public goods of my choosing and pay less to federal public goods aka our military..

[owocki]

we should verify how old a twitter account is during twitter verification too. ppl are making fake twitter accounts to verify their grants https://twitter.com/GitcoinDisputes/status/1338478651248050177

[apbendi]

we should verify how old a twitter account is during twitter verification too. ppl are making fake twitter accounts to verify their grants https://twitter.com/GitcoinDisputes/status/1338478651248050177

We validate min account age of 6 months and min 100 followers for the Trust Bonus, so this should be straightforward to add for Grants as well:

https://github.com/gitcoinco/web/blob/e40589978c7a96952c935ce03e46b0f0f321b29a/app/dashboard/views.py#L3102-L3103

[frankchen07]

add all to cart is potentially dangerous when you just click on it on the gitcoin.co/grants page. I did it and added 628 grants to my cart, and almost crashed my computer.

luckily, there's a "clear cart" button.

[owocki]

if a grant owner sets their address as an ENS name it breaks checkout for anyone who tries to checkout with that grant in cart. need better validation

[owocki]

the new matching partner form email is too spammy rn

set a minimum of 10k on the new matching partner form, dont actually trigger an email to admins until the funds are sent.

maybe also an auto follow up if the funds arent sent asking if they have any questions

[owocki]

in viewing the sybil scores + risk scores for some of the top rounds, a lot of the accounts (particularly in east asia) are brand new to gitcoin. we need a way to "background checK" new accounts + figure out if they are sybil or not. otherwisse we just have no data to go on

[owocki]

• sybil verification howto videos

[owocki]

Stop being zksync sandbox, as seems we are the biggest users and always trap on the bugs they introduce on their side

[owocki]

from a friend:

• so alternative funding is something i think we should add to the data model + the market should start considering i think
• matching rounds getting saturated screws up the whole thing and basically makes it a zero-sum game where people feel like their matching is getting "stolen"
• there are too many projects on Gitcoin now that aren't strictly "public goods" anymore and dont need gitcoin to sustain themselves

[owocki]

V: Also, "liftoff" and "Apollo" are terrible category names; need something that explains what they actually are

[owocki]

make it clear in the UI that https://github.com/gitcoinco/web/issues/new is where you go for help. hopefully people will stop DMing me everywhere for support if we do this.

[owocki]

ok this is a weird one - i've gotten two seperate reports from diff users saying their grants rounds were marked as final + then revereted back. here is a screenshot:

[owocki]

✅ https://bits.owocki.com/nOuD50J8 https://bits.owocki.com/qGulReBR

twilio API errors.

both of these should gracefully degrade in the frontend but they dont rn https://twitter.com/j_schwartzz/status/1339238816956231681 "nothing happens after that"

[owocki]

sybil improovement ideas

• sybil ranks over time
• TLS signatures
• fingerprintjs.com
• on chain analysis

[owocki]

✅ zksync: seemed like 25-30 cart items was where i topped out. beyond that it failed

[owocki]

A/b test results Whats the gini coefficient of the grants round? How concentrated was grants round 8 vs round 7? Zoe questions: are people being strategic about how they get matching - or are they just messing around? Andreas: the flow was very confusing by i realized eventually “More people funding = number go up” Vitalik: Diversity of how you interface with Gitcoin grants, maybe more interfaces.

also todo: add the feedback from panelists from wrapup last night @vs77bb @ceresstation

[WeAreFLIX]

Thanks Gitcoin! We really liked that we didn't have to pay gas to deploy the grant this round and how the contributions went directly into our wallet. Very smooth and enjoyable experience!

[lucadgtrip]

thanks Gitcoin! I would make it a bit clearer how matching works.

• donors see stuff like "1 DAI contribution + 6 DAI match" which is a 6x.
• grantees see the same but then the Match is much lower (at least that was our experience during the grant). At the end this is pretty confusing:

how did the match pass from a 6x to 0,5x when the average donation is about 1 Dai? I'm sure it make sense in the backend, just pointing out it doesn't in the frontend.

Also note, it still shows "Estimated match" after the round is closed (will claim soon and see if it changes).

[Onebotband]

Lets use this thread to capture feedback from users on Grants Round 8.

Similar to #7408 for round 7

There was a bit of a hiccup with somebody flagging our grant, but the community reenabled it after evaluation, much thanks.

[LefterisJP]

there is a bug in the frontend. Total earned seems to show the total amount including match. While it should only show the donated amount. (wish we had taken this match in this round)

Also would the contribution being given like this count normally in the API you guys made before or will it be double counted? (have not tested yet -- but I am just asking to make sure it's taken into account there)

[owocki]

the grants cart should reflect the CLR estimate upon the time of the VIEWing of the cart, not the ADD to the cart.

[owocki]

Better Dispute resolution mechanism by @disruptionjoe https://www.notion.so/Research-a-better-grant-dispute-decision-mechanism-for-pre-decentralization-rounds-03399b215a874e5b8342679086a5cc28

[owocki]

planning GR9 scope here => https://github.com/gitcoinco/web/projects/53