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"Second, and more importantly, on Clubhouse you can meet great people." I didn't make it much further than this. The article didn't make it clear as to why its

• detaro 7y ago
  easy enough for an invite-only app to fill itself with people that mostly think the other insiders are "great" too
  • gav 7y ago
    That is true, but it's also been my experience that better discussion happens in smaller forums. Whether that's usenet, reddit, or HN, when it's new, you feel like you're speaking to a small group of people vs. shouting in a large room. The quality of discussion on HN have dropped over time and a large part of that feels like that with more people trying to get their opinions heard, there's a lot of interesting opinions that are missed. Just look at the difference in upvotes between early posts and later mid-thread discussions, if you use that as a proxy for readership, there's a lot less people engaged because conversations get harder to follow and it's not easy to identify conversations that are new to you.
• nik_0_0 7y ago
  The article drops some names and, I guess, expects you to have heard of them. I have heard of Namal, so that is an instant indicator to me what they mean in this case by 'great'. I'm not sure that I buy the 'this will scale when floodgates are open' follow up though. Although with the recent 'famous person goes live on Facebook and interacts with fans', it might work!