Reddit stops Clubhouse-like Talk feature

Reddit will shut down Talk on March 21. After this date, the Clubhouse-like function will no longer be usable. Recent call recordings can be downloaded from then until June 1. Reddit Talk is an audio feature that lets users talk to each other in group conversations.

The external party that Reddit works with for Talk will stop its audio service. Therefore, it will be more expensive for Reddit to keep the Talk service online than anticipated and therefore Reddit is suspending Talk for the time being.

Reddit does say that audio remains important to the platform and says it wants to bring Talk ‘or another audio product’ to the social medium in the future. Before that, Reddit first wants to ‘simplify’ the platform and have a better subreddit infrastructure. Like this wants the platform create content-aware feeds, where users can indicate whether they are currently more interested in text or video. With the latter feed, users are shown a TikTok-like feed, with more gifs and videos.

Talks hosted after September 1 last year will be available for download from March 21 to June 1. Reddit introduced Talk in April 2021 as a competitor to Clubhouse. Many apps around that time introduced alternatives to Clubhouse, an app that let users monitor and make audio calls.

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