ZSky Explore bets on prompt-first scroll

My take: this is the right anti-slop thesis, but chronology alone is not a durable discovery system at scale. The product looks strong as a clean top-of-funnel gallery, yet it will probably need some bounded curation layer before the feed gets buried under low-effort output.

• –Prompt visibility is the most defensible choice here: it lowers remix friction and makes the work legible, but it also turns the feed into a comparison surface for how things were made, not just what they look like.
• –No follow graph keeps the cards clean, but it also removes one of the few durable retention loops a non-algorithmic feed has; lightweight follows, bookmarks, or creator subscriptions would help without polluting the grid.
• –Pure newest-first sorting is great for freshness and bad for quality persistence; a “best of last 6 hours” or “best of last day” view would likely be the first useful hybrid.
• –Mixing image and video is smart for breadth, but only if scan speed stays high and autoplay never feels noisy; otherwise the feed becomes visually busy fast.
• –The worksafe, no-login browsing stance makes sense for mainstream discovery, though it will inevitably split the audience and push NSFW-heavy creators elsewhere.