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Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by xwdv »

zackbloom wrote: post #29

The most wild thing, to me, is how effectively it has been taken over by scam artists. The other day I tuned into a 'startup pitch' show where the premise is you pitch your company idea to an 'investor'. Unfortunately in practice the investor applauds your idea, and then claims he will 'invest' engineering time worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he needs you to 'prove you are serious' by investing tens of th…

I remember entering a channel once that was just a bunch of “Queens” with hot avatars sitting at the top, and the host who was some dude with a smooth big black guy voice would talk with the audience and ask people “which of these queens would you like to sponsor?” and people would donate money to them or whatever. And the queens would also talk a bit if they felt like it. God it was stupid, one of the last channels I checked out before dropping this app completely.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by jazzyjackson »

United857 wrote: post #37

Similar to Quora -- the hype was based on the initial exclusivity/SV celebrity factor. Once things opened up, average quality of content went way down.

Right, it's in the name, it worked when it was a club, you would run into celebrities, had a kind of back-stage or afterparty vibe. I came back a few months after quitting (I didn't like how blocking someone became a whole meta-drama since they could no longer speak in rooms you were speaking) -- couldn't find a single room worth hanging around in.

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davidbarker wrote: post #33

I was an avid user of Clubhouse for a year after joining in January 2021 — I probably spent around 12 hours per day (I know, it’s a lot) on Clubhouse for most of 2021. I’ve met a handful of people who I now consider good friends (despite not having met them in person yet). However (and I don’t want to be too critical as I don’t have internal insights or data), they had/have a few glaring issues that ended up pushing…

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Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by EEBio »

doggerel404 wrote: post #45
United857 wrote: post #37

Similar to Quora -- the hype was based on the initial exclusivity/SV celebrity factor. Once things opened up, average quality of content went way down.

But quora is still around and very useful- maybe even more so than during the hype period

What kind of useful answers can be found on Quora these days?

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by tegiddrone »

davidbarker wrote: post #33

I was an avid user of Clubhouse for a year after joining in January 2021 — I probably spent around 12 hours per day (I know, it’s a lot) on Clubhouse for most of 2021. I’ve met a handful of people who I now consider good friends (despite not having met them in person yet). However (and I don’t want to be too critical as I don’t have internal insights or data), they had/have a few glaring issues that ended up pushing…

The guilty-pleasure entertainment from drama makes sense. Though I interpreted it in part a side effect of the ephemeral nature of a room, strongly discouraging recording. A place where it was difficult to be held accountable by being recorded in some form and refuted more formally. A platform that rewards the underdeveloped thoughts in ones head. Maybe that's just social media in general but felt like it was sharper here. I stopped coming before they added the clipping feature.

My favorite example was when there was some comradery in a room about a guy divorcing his wife because she got COVID vaccinated and there was some unfounded ideas about a sexually transmitted thing about the vaccines. It would be interesting if they would allow the audience to have some passive feedback, like thumbs down "I disagree with the stage." Then at least it wouldn't feel like an echo chamber by the loudest while half the audience is just listening curiously in disbelief.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by lordnacho »

EEBio wrote: post #47
doggerel404 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But quora is still around and very useful- maybe even more so than during the hype period

What kind of useful answers can be found on Quora these days?

Mainly articulate opinions on various questions that are open ended. "What regrets do you have?", that kind of thing.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by davidbarker »

tegiddrone wrote: post #48
davidbarker wrote: post #33

I was an avid user of Clubhouse for a year after joining in January 2021 — I probably spent around 12 hours per day (I know, it’s a lot) on Clubhouse for most of 2021. I’ve met a handful of people who I now consider good friends (despite not having met them in person yet). However (and I don’t want to be too critical as I don’t have internal insights or data), they had/have a few glaring issues that ended up pushing…

The guilty-pleasure entertainment from drama makes sense. Though I interpreted it in part a side effect of the ephemeral nature of a room, strongly discouraging recording. A place where it was difficult to be held accountable by being recorded in some form and refuted more formally. A platform that rewards the underdeveloped thoughts in ones head. Maybe that's just social media in general but felt like it was sharper…

That’s true. The Clips/Replay (Clips being the ability to save a 30-second clip of the room and Replay being the ability to listen back to a whole room after it’s finished, for those who don’t know) was quite a big addition for a social network that seemed to have ephemerality as one of its big selling points. It’s difficult to know how it affected the app as it was added as the app had already started to lose users.

Was the room you mention based on the false information that the COVID vaccine causes you to be HIV+? I remember that was a talking point for a few weeks.

I agree — I really like the emoji responses you can give in a Twitter Space. Clubhouse does at least now have a chatroom for everyone in the room, including the audience, if the creator enables it.

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