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Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

#91

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

I agree that Quora is still around.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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

Well, what I mean is that it’s kinda like being upset that people are going to concerts or listening to radio.

Except conversations don’t have to be audio only. Take our exchange right here.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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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 resu…

Most of the names though are unknown. Unless it is a really famous person, so it is virtually the same thing as wikipedia which actually has proper information compared to Quora.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 resu…

You are the only person I know about who would choose quora over anything but yahoo answers.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Well, what I mean is that it’s kinda like being upset that people are going to concerts or listening to radio.

In the US there are actually legal requirements now for certain types of communication software (including video games!) to offer text-to-speech/speech-to-text or equivalent accessibility technology to address this sort of problem if they include voice chat. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/video-game-communication-no...

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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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…

iPhones are status symbols

I can agree with that and it is exactly why I never want one. Cheap Chinaphone, never paying for or subscribing to apps and not giving a shit about optics. That is my special snowflake fashion statement.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

#99

I downloaded the app on my iPad, because someone told me it was the new hotness. As soon as I started it, it was fixed to an iPhone window. This was about a year ago. No apps should ever do that. It means the app is crap quality. I nuked it, and forgot about it.

There are plenty of good reasons to dislike Clubhouse, but the lack of an iPad UI on day one is not one of them. When you're building something new, you have to prioritize, and insisting on polish like this just helps to entrench the big players.
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