According to rumors, the first page of the Internet may be the last online platform that prepares a social audio function in the voice-only chat application. Club house.
Reddit is quietly working on incorporating voice chats led by moderators into the platform, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday Mashable report. In an interview with the outlet, the source described the development of the feature as confidential and still in its early stages.
If this voice chat feature ever sees the light of day, it’s likely to be developed under Reddit’s “power-ups” banner, an initiative the company launched last year to experiment with new features based on specific subscriptions. of individual subreddits.
On his initial announcement, Reddit listed several examples of these features, called power-ups, such as the “ability to upload and stream HD quality videos,” “video file limits have been doubled,” and “online GIFs in comments” “, others. Subreddits can unlock these benefits after enough of their members buy monthly feed subscriptions, with the minimum threshold for each community determined by their size.
At the time, Reddit made it clear that it wanted to know about users for future suggestions.
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“The new experiment helps create a framework that allows us to add“ nice features to have ”to subreddits,” Reddit said in its announcement in August. “We start with some hand-picked features and look forward to adding more as we receive input from you and the communities that have opted for our first tests.”
GWe have all the buzz social audio services these days, I suspect the “voice chat” got a pretty high score on the suggestion list. But I can understand why Reddit might want to keep things down for now given its reality trying to enter the chat rooms last year. TLDR: Reddit removed the feature with few warnings and apparently didn’t think about moderation, as subredit modifiers couldn’t disable 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 madness is a flash, but what is clear is that the landscape is filling up fast. Clubhouse has inspired several copies since its release in March 2020, with Twitter, LinkedIn, Flow, and the parent company of TikTok, Bytedance, everyone is said to be in a hurry to get involved in the action with their own audio chat features. Facebook too began beta testing of his Clubhouse Clone, a web-based question and answer platform that is calling the hotline, this week.