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Unofficial Clubhouse app for Android
- supergirl 6y agofunny how people can't wait to get into another abusive relationship with a social media app that will make money from their content
- rapnie 6y agoNice to see alternative clients already. Might also be cool to combine with Jam. https://jam.systems/ https://jam.systems/ https://gitlab.com/jam-systems/jam https://gitlab.com/jam-systems/jam
- splintercell 6y agoThe website never opens for me and I have no idea why. I have tried turning off my VPN, switching servers.
- tomcooks 6y agoWhen I see a Mumble clone becoming pop I see another lost opportunity by the FOSS community
- colinplamondon 6y agoThat points to the problem of open source: a hostility towards growth and product as critical team roles. It makes sense - OSS is an opportunity to do great engineering without constraints of a workplace. But without prioritizing product, growth, and design, OSS consumer products stagnate and suck as an end user. Shifting from GitHub Issues as the default project management is a good prime candidate for starting to move the needle. Public-facing Clubhouse-the-project-management-app would be easier for non-eng contributions, holding open OKR processes, and having some clear ways for non developers to contribute. Fwiw I tried to help on growth / product on one consumer OSS product I love- there just wasn’t a mechanism for someone to say yes, and there was a need for centralization to do some of the obvious next practices any startup would do. It’s easy for engineers to contribute, but ambient hostility and concern about marketing / growth / product tactics make it tough to turn rock solid OSS technology into competitive OSS products.
- jancsika 6y agoI think there's a law in there somewhere... Suppose you had met the original author at the very beginning of the project and convinced them that marketing/growth/etc. is important. Let's suppose they only write some single facile sentence in the README about, "marketers/growth experts welcome" in response. I would hold that just having that single, facile sentence buried in the README from the outset is more powerful and persuasive to the project's developer base than the most detailed proposal that a marketing/growth expert could possibly write after the fact. Maybe another way to say this: if you showed up to a consumer OSS product that had this facile sentence in it there, the entire developer base would welcome you make a marketing pitch to them. Without it, they would interpret it as noise.
- CydeWeys 6y agoHah, wait, so Clubhouse is currently iPhone only? I've been hearing a lot about it but haven't been tempted to join, but now I'm learning that I couldn't even join if I wanted to??
- brjfjvkgtk 6y agoNo one who matters would allow themselves to be caught using an Android. It's like using a Windows laptop and calling yourself a "software engineer". Or being a teen and not rocking $300 sneakers.
- splintercell 6y agoWe-didn't-start-the-flame-war.mov
- brjfjvkgtk 6y agoCool people use .mkv
- gk1 6y agoI think people are missing the sarcasm.
- acidburnNSA 6y agoYup. I just learned this as well while inadvertently missing out on a 'mining bitcoin with micro nuclear reactors in space' session I was invited to.
- m4rtink 6y agoSure, you might be able to go around a lot of regulation, but keeping the reactors cool would be complicated, unless in space means some non-Earth planetary body. Titans atmosphere or the oceans on Europa are pretty cold. Of course that way the bitcoin transaction processing time would get even longer due to light speed delay.
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- galuggus 6y agoYou could always join smughouse. smughouse.xyz
- IgorPartola 6y agoCompletely OT but might as well ask here. Does anyone know of a good replacement for Turntable.fm/Plug.dj? Social music playing/DJing experience with avatars and a chat is basically what I am after. I have a group of friends that I think might enjoy this type of thing but Turntable.fm pivoted years ago and Plug.dj, while being able to link to YouTube seems to require an API key which these non-tech folks won’t be able to figure out. I think the kinds of shared digital experiences is what is helping keep people sane while we are all isolating so I welcome all new attempts at new social platforms.
- needz 6y agoTurntable is coming back. tt.fm
- IgorPartola 6y agoOoh! Any clue when it might launch and what the pricing structure might be?
- Marciplan 6y agoThere used to be AuxParty (a clone) but I think what comes close now is Campfire.gg — watching YouTube/FB/Twitch videos together and/or listening to Soundcloud tracks with friends (which is how I use it)
- IgorPartola 6y agoAuxParty looks amazing but the fact that it requires a premium Spotify subscription and doesn't seem to work well on mobile is going to be super difficult I think for some of my friends. Campfire doesn't have the avatars but no Spotify requirement is super nice.
- xiaolingxiao 6y agoThere's an app Roadtrip, you need a premium spotify account though.
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- technics256 6y agoDoes anyone know how they do the streaming audio generally? Just streaming websockets I presume?
- aquietlife 6y agoThey're using Agora: https://www.agora.io/en/products/live-interactive-audio-streaming/ https://www.agora.io/en/products/live-interactive-audio-stre...
- codetrotter 6y agoI was invited to Clubhouse by a friend a while back. I think it’s a neat concept. It’s also a bit “dangerous” though in the sense that you jump into a room intending to listen for a little while, but if the room is right then you may find it too interesting to leave and they just never stop talking :p
- say_it_as_it_is 6y agoIs anyone old enough to remember phone party chat lines from the 1980s?
- grishka 6y agoDeveloper here in case anyone has any questions.
- xiaolingxiao 6y agoRepost: can I ask how you use PubNub with Agora? As in what specific thing does PubNub do to help you communicate state information that you can't do by writing to a (say firebase) backend.
- grishka 6y agoThey do different things. Agora is an RTC platform. PubNub is, as I understood it, a glorified websocket, which is used for realtime updates, like people joining and leaving a room. I have no idea why they chose this particular stack.
- xiaolingxiao 6y agoYeah I'm using Agora for my project, as for real time update I find updating a state in firebase on one end and adding a listener on the other end to be "realtime" enough. So i'm trying to figure out what I'm missing, and the PubNub website is not very elucidating.
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- DyslexicAtheist 6y agogot a couple: why does it send traffic to China? why is audio sent over unencrypted UDP in 2021? who in their right minds would want to listen to footage of what are essentially meeting recordings. I get why people who are enchanted by their own voice, and want to get on it to hear themselves talk, but why on earth would anyone else want to listen to boring audio of people dialogue. it sounds flippant but it's an honest question. the ratio of those who derive utility from this is skewed tremendously toward the speaker (not the listener) why no ADA compliance? why the unenforcable ToS? why no sane way for users to unsubscribe from the service? (not compliant with GDPR)
- xiaolingxiao 6y agoIf the author is here, can I ask how you use PubNub with Agora? As in what specific thing does PubNub do to help you communicate state information that you can't do by writing to a (say firebase) backend.
- rvz 6y ago> Unofficial Clubhouse app for Android. Inspired by https://github.com/stypr/clubhouse-py https://github.com/stypr/clubhouse-py. As new hyped up social networks come along with missing things we have this. I can only see this unofficial app eventually withering away as soon as the Android app is ready. (Whenever that is) The main concern is the private API. With this, individuals can abuse the API very easily. If the invite system is phased out, it creates an opportunity for bots to ruin the app. Here we go again.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agothe product is essential reinventing conference calls by adding tracking and gamification to voice calls. who are these people who voluntarily sign up and have their data stolen just so they can listen to Dunning-Kruger types who love nothing more than hearing the sound of their own voice. people who think they're genuine but aren't because they build their opinions based on what their audience wants to hear. it kills authenticity same as all the other services that create humans that consider themselves "influencers". it's not too different from the CCP's SCS only that we are too propagandized into thinking that this won't create a society of digital slaves who bow to the one with the highest karma.
- skinnymuch 6y agoMy valuable valuable data being stolen by the app. What have I been thinking.
- jlokier 6y ago> If the invite system is phased out, it creates an opportunity for bots to ruin the app. If someone can make bots do convincing voice chat with groups of the glitterati, heckling Elon with persuasive counter arguments, that would be quite impressive.
- FriedrichN 6y agoI know this is not the same app, but it is the same service, and it's a privacy nightmare from what I gather. If you care about privacy, don't use it. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/clubhouse-privacy-policy-app-data-b1801595.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/cl... https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2021/02/10/clubhouse-the-hot-new-social-network-has-big-privacy-problems/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2021/02/10/clubhou...
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agothe correct and only response to a clubhouse invite is always: no.
- wyldfire 6y agoWhat is 'Clubhouse'? Sounds like it's some kind of audio chat app?
- libertine 6y agoIt is, the hook is that it's on a "invite only" basis so it has the whole exclusivity. Imagine an actual club where celebs hang out, and that's hard to get in, so people line up to try to join in on the party, yet the "cool people" cut the line and have access to it. So you're cool if you're already in, you know? It got hyped up when Elon Musk joined and roasted Vlad from Robinhood, and suddenly everyone wanted an invite. It's a interesting concept, but it was driven by celebrities hype and exclusivity ... but what isn't like that currently? Stocks, Crypto, you name it.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agoI thought it was an invite to a house party in the club, but when I got there it was just another meeting where I couldn't get the video to work.
- kyriakos 6y agosounds like a chat app for kids tbh
- newbie578 6y agoI cannot fathom how they haven't made an official Android Clubhouse app. Is the Android base so disgusting, or what? It might even be understandable if you are an underdog while bootstrapping while not having enough resources, but Clubhouse should have more than enough resource to make a simplified wannabe Discord app on Android. Any semi-competent mobile dev should be able to do it. Reading now other's comments makes kind of sense, Clubhouse is positioning itself as an elitist app, so of course they are trying to build exclusivity. Good luck to them, but I personally go out of my way to not use apps or services like that. I know this might come as a shocker, but some people don't like the Apple "Stockholm syndrome" ecosystem. I prefer my Android phone over an iPhone, even though I have and use an iPad, and I still prefer my Windows PC over a Mac for developing, even though I have a Mac ( I only use it for signing apps for iOS). Looks like having a different taste and preferring a choice is unpopular in this decade.