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Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by scyzoryk_xyz »

seanhunter wrote: post #3

My hypothesis is that a lot of the early hype was down to people who liked the idea of being part of an exclusive club but didn't really like when everyone else was also part of the club. Then twitter launched "Spaces", meaning people could have a similar experience to clubhouse without building yet another social network.

The Twitter Spaces move reminds me of the Instagram Stories move. As in life, upstarts with killer new features sometimes manage to take only a temporary hold and are easy to rip off if they don't manage to protect what they've got.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by scyzoryk_xyz »

latchkey wrote: post #31
miki123211 wrote: post #12

The blind community is still there, maybe not as strong as it was, but we still use it a lot. I guess the audio-only nature of it, in the age of picture-based apps like Instagram, really made a difference.

While I appreciate that it helps the blind community, the deaf community was really left out. I personally saw at least one complaint about this in a group that I'm in.

I'm sorry if this is a bit insensitive, but if we're talking about a sound conversation based platform, isn't it a bit absurd for deaf communities to be upset?

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

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…

This is how I remember most of the Clubhouse content during the initial popularity.

There were exceptions such as famous VCs, authors, and tech people doing Q&A, but everything else felt like content marketers, online course sellers, and crypto scammers having a field day with their sudden access to a lot of bored and curious people.

Outside of a few pre-scheduled and planned Clubhouse events, I never actually found anything organically interesting on the platform.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by detaro »

scyzoryk_xyz wrote: post #73
latchkey wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I appreciate that it helps the blind community, the deaf community was really left out. I personally saw at least one complaint about this in a group that I'm in.

I'm sorry if this is a bit insensitive, but if we're talking about a sound conversation based platform, isn't it a bit absurd for deaf communities to be upset?

No, it's not absurd to complain about stuff being moved to places you can't participate in.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by meibo »

laurex wrote: post #62

Side question: From a technical perspective, why was it iPhone-only for so long? Even Twitter Spaces still don't work on the web AFAIK despite having announced their intent to do so nearly a year ago.

Rich and famous Americans don't use Android phones, so it added to the apparent exclusivity - I'm sure it's not much more than that, their actual VoIP tech was a SaaS and it's easy to assume that they didn't actually need Android customers at that point.

This isn't meant as a quip or sarcasm, it is actually what a lot of people thought back in its "golden age", reading through Twitter and other social networks. For a lot of people in the US, Android phone == poor, no taste. iPhones are status symbols.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by doggerel403 »

lordnacho wrote: post #49
EEBio wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's actually more useful than that. Even for queries with objective, straightforward answers, if I get a search result with a Wikipedia article and a quora answer I almost always go with quora. The Wikipedia result is an article written by a faceless group of people and there's no way for me to gauge the quality other than included references (which are very hit and miss on a good number of articles). The quora result is a variety of answers from a bunch of people with real names attached (in most cases). I can pick which answer I think feels more authoritative or detailed, or mix and match answers. I think having a real name behind the answer and each answer not just being a mishmash of contributions from anonymous sources results in higher quality answers I can trust (or at least make a decision about what level of trust I want to have in the answer which is very helpful when you're getting answers from the internet). Also having a bunch of answers to compare and contrast instead of just one definitive answer actually helps

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Post by Kye »

detaro wrote: post #75
scyzoryk_xyz wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry if this is a bit insensitive, but if we're talking about a sound conversation based platform, isn't it a bit absurd for deaf communities to be upset?

No, it's not absurd to complain about stuff being moved to places you can't participate in.

It's the same situation with everything being a video now. I do better with diagrams and text, but now I have to sit through someone jabbering for 9 minutes for 1 minute of content to please the algorithm. And as someone who wants to make how-tos, getting any traffic to text these days is nearly impossible.
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