Rumor has it that the front page of the internet could be the latest online platform that cooks a social audio feature to the voice-only chat app Clubhouse.
Reddit is quietly working to incorporate voice chats led by moderators on the platform, a person familiar with the issue said on Friday. Massable report. In a press interview, the source described the development of the feature as confidential and still in its infancy.
If this voice chat feature ever sees the light of day, it’s likely to take place under Reddit’s “power-up” banner, an initiative the company launched last year to experiment with new subscription-based features. individual subreddits.
Into the the initial announcement, Reddit listed several examples of these features, called power-ups, such as “the ability to upload and play back HD video quality,” “Video file limits doubled,” and “GIF- in the comments ”, among others. Subreddits can unlock these benefits after a sufficient number of members purchase monthly start-up subscriptions, with the minimum threshold for each community determined by its size.
At the time, Reddit made it clear that it wanted to hear from users for future suggestions.
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“The new experiment helps create a framework that allows us to add ‘nice features’ to subreddits,” Reddit said in its August announcement. “We start with a few hand-selected features and expect to add more as we receive input from you and the communities that opted for our early testing.”
GI saw all the hum social audio services these days, I suspect that “voice chat” got a pretty high score on the suggestion list. Although I can understand why Reddit might want to keep things under wraps for the time being given how real he was wrong trying to enter the chat rooms last year. TLDR: Reddit removed the feature with little warning and seemingly zero thought of moderation, because subreddit modes couldn’t drop chats or control them. It was a disaster.
Reddit did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment, but we will be sure to update this blog when they do.
Time will tell if this audio chat craze is lightning fast, but what is clear is that the landscape is fast becoming crowded. Clubhouse has inspired several children since its launch in March 2020, with Twitter, LinkedIn, Slackand the parent company of TikTok, Bytedance, everyone will be in a hurry to take action with their own audio chat features. Facebook, too started beta testing for Clone Clubhouse, a web-based question and answer platform that call the hotline, in this week.