## Feedback on FIL RetroPGF Round 3

### What worked well

**Allocation preview** – Showing total FIL alongside percentages made the impact of each allocation feel more tangible and meaningful.

**Progress saving** – The stepwise flow with persistent state was helpful. Being able to revisit and adjust previous decisions without losing work reduced friction.

**Spreadsheet voting** – It was nice to have this as an option, even though I didn't need to use it.

**Easy submission flow** – Final submission was straightforward with a clear confirmation.

### Suggestions for improvement

**Project discovery is slow** – Clicking into each profile individually, waiting for it to load (and needing to keep the tab active), created a lot of friction when reviewing dozens of projects. A hover tooltip with a quick summary and key stats (OSO metrics, owner of repo, etc.) would speed up initial triage significantly.

**Too many clicks to find signal** – The publicity tweets were often low-context. To actually understand a project, I had to: click the project page → click the link to the tweet → click through to the GitHub issue → read the full proposal. For the volume of projects in the round, this added up. Surfacing more context directly in the interface would help.

**No filtering or sorting** – I couldn't filter projects by category, funding history, or impact metrics. Being able to sort by "least funded so far" or "most OSO activity" would help surface overlooked projects.

**Missing context on past rounds** – For returning projects, it would be useful to see what they received in previous rounds and what they delivered since then. This helps calibrate whether additional funding is warranted.