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It was definitely neat for awhile. I heard some great panels and conversations and learned some things that you'll never be able to find on Google - like did yo

It was definitely neat for awhile. I heard some great panels and conversations and learned some things that you'll never be able to find on Google - like did you know Tony Hawk learned to program on a TI-99/4A? Only way you'd know is if you were there when he said it in a forum with no record! But I never found any groups I could participate in. There were vast deserts of interests - either because search was bad, or people simply weren't discussing those topics. I'd try to create my own rooms, but no one would ever join.

Swizec 4y ago
> Only way you'd know is if you were there when he said it in a forum with no record And now here we are. Knowledge is memetic. The good shit spreads.
- macintux 4y ago
  Some of it, sure, but good luck capturing that knowledge in, say, Wikipedia. [Citation needed]
Macha 4y ago
I mean, that's the thing, I heard a lot of PR about people interacting with celebrities, VCs etc. And people saying the _format_ was great as it attracted all these people. But the reality was the novelty attracted these people, and a VC that spends all day chatting with randomers won't be managing their investments very well so they would need to dial back, and the celebs who were enjoying the novelty were going to realise that any venue to interact with fans is capable of consuming "all their time", and want to go back to putting it back in its time limited box, so that aspect of the appeal was never going to last. Then for the randoms talking to randoms type groups, voice chat is a big increase in commitment over Reddit/HN/whatever. You could argue that encourages better contributions, but it also discourages frequent contributions, which in turn helped the "fizzling out" effect
- __derek__ 4y ago
  > a VC that spends all day chatting with randomers won't be managing their investments very well so they would need to dial back I got the impression that the VCs using Clubhouse were just diverting some of their Twitter time.
  - johannes1234321 4y ago
    Synchronous audio is way worse on time then async text. You can't simply divert Twitter time if you want to take any value (be it relevant for business or entertainment or ...) out of it.

Swizec 4y ago

> Only way you'd know is if you were there when he said it in a forum with no record And now here we are. Knowledge is memetic. The good shit spreads.

macintux 4y ago
Some of it, sure, but good luck capturing that knowledge in, say, Wikipedia. [Citation needed]

Macha 4y ago

I mean, that's the thing, I heard a lot of PR about people interacting with celebrities, VCs etc. And people saying the _format_ was great as it attracted all these people. But the reality was the novelty attracted these people, and a VC that spends all day chatting with randomers won't be managing their investments very well so they would need to dial back, and the celebs who were enjoying the novelty were going to realise that any venue to interact with fans is capable of consuming "all their time", and want to go back to putting it back in its time limited box, so that aspect of the appeal was never going to last. Then for the randoms talking to randoms type groups, voice chat is a big increase in commitment over Reddit/HN/whatever. You could argue that encourages better contributions, but it also discourages frequent contributions, which in turn helped the "fizzling out" effect

__derek__ 4y ago
> a VC that spends all day chatting with randomers won't be managing their investments very well so they would need to dial back I got the impression that the VCs using Clubhouse were just diverting some of their Twitter time.
- johannes1234321 4y ago
  Synchronous audio is way worse on time then async text. You can't simply divert Twitter time if you want to take any value (be it relevant for business or entertainment or ...) out of it.