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View submission: Sunsetting Reddit Talk
Reddit didn’t develop this feature, they were borrowing (or copying?) it from the company Clubhouse, therefore it wasn’t a ‘unique’ Reddit feature.
But the idea of being able to combine the specificity of communities on Reddit with a tool that allows people to have live discussions could have been really successful, and unique in this way. I don’t think this feature reached it’s best potential; as a means for disseminating ideas on niche topics. But it could have just been that I attended the wrong talks. Or that it was never going to be possible to have a meaningful discussion with random people. I’m still hopeful, and I hope it returns one day.
Comment by Revolutionary_Pack54 at 09/03/2023 at 01:30 UTC
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Yeah for sure; nothing is new under the sun. I do agree that there was a lot of missed potential with this feature. It was great for discussions on topics, I used it for live IT, karaoke sessions -- there is a lot they left on the table. Discovery was their biggest issue, and they basically fumbled the bag *hard* on that front for the entirety of this feature's existence.
Comment by CoachTryumph at 09/03/2023 at 14:23 UTC
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A lot of live talk communities were not discoverable such as my own r/SelfImprovementTalk so our growth was hindered and hence people did not get to see the wide range of topics.
Comment by ElectricOne55 at 20/03/2023 at 04:17 UTC
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Aren't clubhouse talks more just people talking about random stuff though?
I liked that reddit talks were more structured.