{"id":616385,"date":"2023-03-10T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/reddit-is-sunsetting-its-clubhouse-clone\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:49:08","slug":"reddit-is-sunsetting-its-clubhouse-clone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/reddit-is-sunsetting-its-clubhouse-clone\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit is sunsetting its Clubhouse clone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Reddit has announced that it\u2019ll be shutting down Reddit Talk, its live audio conversation feature, on March 21st. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/RedditTalk\/comments\/11m4ijn\/sunsetting_reddit_talk\/\">an announcement post<\/a>, the company says it made the decision because \u201csupporting Talk in the short-term requires significant resourcing &#8211; more than we anticipated.\u201d The company will also be shutting down its \u201cHappening Now\u201d page, which exists to help you find active Talks and Live Chats.<\/p>\n<p>Talk was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/4\/19\/22391875\/reddit-talk-clubhouse-social-audio\">announced in April 2021<\/a>, a time when audio chatroom app Clubhouse seemed like a big deal and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/12\/17\/22187490\/twitter-spaces-test-voice-chat-rooms\">other social networks<\/a> were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/3\/30\/22359332\/linkedin-clubhouse-clone-social-audio-networking-room\">rushing<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/4\/7\/22372190\/facebook-hotline-clubhouse-competitor-q-and-a-app-test\">copy its features<\/a>. The reason why it\u2019s being sunsetted now is apparently that the third party audio vendor Reddit used for the service is also shutting down. According to its post, the company doesn\u2019t want to deal with that while it\u2019s also trying to simplify its core platform and improve infrastructure, an effort that chief product officer Pali Bhat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23626284\/reddit-pali-bhat-tiktok-social-network-google-search-video\">just discussed on <em>Decoder<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Starting March 21st, users will be able to download archives of Talks that were hosted after September 1st, 2022, and they\u2019ll have until June 1st to do so. The company says there\u2019ll be more details about downloading closer to the shutdown date.<\/p>\n<p>While Reddit does say that audio has a place in its goal to \u201cbecome the de facto home for communities,\u201d it isn\u2019t providing any sort of timeline on when audio features or even Talk itself will make a reappearance.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown news comes as Reddit is launching other features to help compete with video platforms like TikTok. That includes working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/3\/7\/23628130\/reddits-video-watch-read-feeds-update-tiktok\">separate video and text feeds<\/a>, which let people focus on one form of content. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/3\/9\/23633172\/reddit-talk-sunset-audio-clubhouse\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Mitchell Clark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has announced that it\u2019ll be shutting down Reddit Talk, its live audio conversation feature, on March 21st. In an announcement post, the company says it made the decision because \u201csupporting Talk in the short-term requires significant resourcing &#8211; more than we anticipated.\u201d The company will also be shutting down its \u201cHappening Now\u201d page, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":616386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,104141,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-616385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reddit","8":"category-sunsetting","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}