12/6 Clubhouse town hall(英語)

Paul
0:00
So she's extra work are you adding topics call to the room? I was Yeah. Great.

Anu
0:12
can always add to it and we need to figure out which other ones we should always add to the clubhouse HQ

Paul
0:18
rooms. Yes, we should do that. What else do you probably I don't even know what the full set is right now. They're like,

0:28
requested custom custom topic. room singing

Paul
0:36
karaoke, I think Town Hall should be a topic.

0:39
I like it, but

Paul
0:40
it's a club like isn't that Oh, that's true. That's like a series no as a format. format. Right. Oh, interesting. Like, do you think people would be interested in that format specifically? I think people who want to ask questions in every single town hall topic. I wonder that's pretty interesting. Like I wonder if people would use it for a series because we have clubhouse HQ. And then we have different things that we host out of there. Clearly, to build a better a better solution than that. But you never know people might do it.

Anu
1:28
Alright, I have in mind the people on our team that I need to bombard with questions and suggestions.

Paul
1:36
All right, cool. Well, to get going, let's do it. Yeah. Welcome, everybody to the weekly clubhouse townhall special Happy Hanukkah edition. today. You know, clubhouse townhall is something we've been doing for over a year now. We do it every Sunday 9am Pacific and we just talked about what we're building. What's been going on in the community this past week. Share some news about what's ahead and I think most importantly, answer questions that we have from you. So you can submit questions anytime just go to clubhouse.com and scroll to the bottom and there's a link to submit a question for town hall. People do it like at any point during the week, anytime they think of something they just throw it out there. And then every Friday or Saturday we collect all of the most frequently asked questions for that week. And we group them into themes and we make sure we get to all of those. But we also take additional questions, sometimes via back channel. So if you have any questions, you can always submit them anytime but you can just shoot them to probably best to shoot them to audio right now. And if we have time at the end we'll get to some some real time questions at the end. And I think that's about it. We'd like to kick off the townhall by talking about the highlights from the past week some of the more incredible conversations that we've seen people have been having. So why don't we invite Steph Simon up to talk about that stuff. Are you back stateside? No, no,

3:05
I'm still in Blighty. I'm still in London. So it's you know it's a solid five

Paul
3:10
visa to symbolize time it

3:14
is versus versus

Paul
3:16
like the early days. You'd be in meetings at four in the morning.

Stephanie
3:22
Don't miss those days. Nice. Nice to be back on the same timezone of your team. Oh, but it's been nice. It's been really nice actually. Ours maybe give her a bit of a shout out later but we had two amazing clubhouse creators featured at a conference this week. Here in London, Lila Danilo and Lady Phoenix and it made me Yeah, it made me so proud to see so many people just be like wow, who is that? She's amazing. Wow, I really so many quotable things about her. I think what I love seeing about clubhouse is so many of our native creators really like get the shine and the stage they deserves whether it's on our own stages here at clubhouse or off so it's very, very cool.

Paul
4:02
You know, you know what else I love is when you when you get to see people from clubhouse for the first time in real life. Yeah. Yeah, like, like jewelry when I texted me they were at a group of club houses for at Art Basel and she sent me a video it was so cool. It was like I thought John actually moving for the first time which was incredible. Like, oh my god, actually like

4:27
a bunch please hair John that's the only reason I want to see your video I need to see your hair in motion.

Paul
4:34
Well yeah, the hat on but it's obvious right?

Stephanie
4:39
Well, yeah, no, I totally agree. And I was actually the first time I'd ever met him Lila in person and it was like a minute before she went I'll say onstage and we had like a real like, Oh,

Paul
4:48
I know. And you feel like you know them so well. Right. I mean, you do know them so

Stephanie
4:51
well. You do know them. You know their voices. And you know that all of your rhythms. Yeah, exactly. I love. All right. So then let's get to some highlights. It was a huge week for any hip hop fans on clubhouse. 21 Savage was back in the hallway. And actually, when I woke up this morning in London, he was holding a very late night room, which is always fun to see when you're in London who's up real late in the States. Back in the hallway along with NBA Youngboy aka YPB to popped up quietly around different rooms for a few nights. Before making his debut with DJ academics for a four hour conversation and then debuted new music The following night so if you don't follow him, here's a pinned link. His username is like classic internet cryptic so if unless you find it here you may not find him But Anu has printed here for

Paul
5:40
the room. Was the aka the whole time. I know.

Stephanie
5:43
I know. I know. I love that like just such. That's one of the best things about right like popping in the hallway and being introduced like I didn't know and be a young boy now I do so yeah, it's it was amazing. Um, Young Thug also joined Keita and friends in the Crenshaw district with another username that made us question whether or not it was really happening for him. But it was very real in the replay is a great listen on you again, right on time pinning it here at the top Siddha came back for a labor Friday night. Oh geez. We'll know. But if you don't know Sarah is a life coach to all kinds of people it has its amazing like no style, which I always appreciate. And he will not hesitate to kick anyone on this off the stage which I love and it's very judicious with his green being Paul of course we know you love that. His room was called wasted your entire life but it's okay. Yeah, we all need those like positive affirmations if in fact we have wasted or less pinned link at the top. Check that out. I think I'm among friends here when I say I'm a huge Bruno Mars fan actually. I don't know. Are you a Bruno Mars fan? I know you're you have sort of somewhat

Paul
6:51
fashionable pop. Why would you assume that pop music because I mean, I'm not but I I should start listening.

Anu
6:58
Well, one was in this room. Okay. And Romana and I talked about

Paul
7:04
my Spotify music tastes are still stuck in 10 years. So

Stephanie
7:09
I know we discussed it and I'm actually going to touch on that a bit later. On this sort of the wrap up reports Spotify does teaches a lot about her and music tastes in case you don't know. But he's obviously Bruno Mars and incredible artists and knows how to wear a matching soak set like nobody else which again, hot pink style from Bruno Mars, but jump here. Whom I am also a big fan hosted a long very thoughtful room debating the often asked question where the line sits when it comes to cultural appropriation versus appreciation especially regarding black culture in American music. So if you have not had the chance, I'm just gonna slow down when I say this because it is important. If you haven't had a chance to check out the popular opinion, which is John piers club, please do so he really perfectly strikes this balance of pop culture and what I call an anthropological dig, but he really injects so much history and sort of like context to whatever is being discussed. So please God, I say please keep your picks and shovels and join him in his anthropological data. That's really really good. All right, keep it moving human behavior club took on one of my favorite subjects, adult friendships and how to keep them strong. I think it's like always a lifelong struggle, especially when you're balancing family, job kids, all the things I'm someone who cares deeply for a wide network of friends. And so this discussion was really resonated with me. I think so much of the advice we get as adults is about work or marriage or kids but we often talk about our friendships which are incredibly important. And fitting is that conversation was it would happen in clubhouse where so many of us have made such deep friendships again, Pindling care at the top again, another club that we've mentioned a couple times human behavior club, often hosting great things. I also often turn to Justin Higgins and friends for explainers on issues that are way more complex than hot button discussion, the hot button discussions that they may seem in mass media, and the latest conversation was with energy analyst Ben Cahill and notice appointment there. They got into the question of why gas prices are so high what can be done about it? And obviously being hosted in politics and media one on one. I think we talked about this joke about at least last week. I really every time I see gas prices I think very much it's just a crazy shift in our thinking. But check it out nonpartisan talks every week. They're actually doing three or four weeks now so you won't want to miss Jill Lisa decaying drew Elliot who is the global Creative Director for Mac along with two other sort of lead makeup stylists for Mac Amy Harkleroad and Victor Assembla and celebrated the history of Max Viva Glam lipstick and how one lipstick has raised over $500 million for AIDS treatment over the years. The room really, if you're not familiar with Viva Glam I personally have bought at least six of these lipsticks over the last you know the army years has been going on probably 20 I think the room discuss how the cause is changing with modern treatments for HIV and AIDS and how partnering with everyone one from Boy George to Lady Gaga and now keep hearing was really a pioneering effort a product clever collaborations which now like I said, we all the time this was one of the very first on this that's it's an incredible Yeah, I mean like I said I'll probably a lot of the women in the room would know it because every time you check out it has a little you know at a Mac store that Viva Glam sort of setup was right there to the right but yeah, they've we you know, we didn't really dig into it a lot here. But this was something it wasn't for marketing. It wasn't for anything to be truly one of the help and the artists behind it like early 90s obviously lost a lot of their friends with the crisis. So it's continued to do a lot for research and, and AIDS. And HIV treatment. So yes, get a lipstick ladies for for the holidays. They usually have a really great red one almost always around the holidays for Beaver Dam so check it out. Okay, last one. Being my hat to the NBA fan club Jason zone Fisher and the baseball collective who have all been doing some really strong really strong content discussing the politics and drama of the sports world. gonna like a few of these here for you. First up a replay from the baseball collective on the free agent frenzy on a you're just so on it today. Well done.

Paul
11:23
Thank you also quickly build a saved queue for replays

Stephanie
11:28
on it. On any human is sort of better than the product or next step you have Jason's profile so you can follow him and RSVP for his regular show the rundown. And that is it for me.

Paul
11:44
Thank you. Yeah, yeah, it was really fun. It really exciting week. A couple things that you kind of alluded to that, you know, we we put out a product release last week we did a blog post about it we did a room about it includes not just the topics but language localization. So language localization has been it's been amazing. It's one of those things where it's like we always wanted to do this. They were finally getting to the scale as a team where we can or we can just roll out a lot of these really important features in rapid succession. So we did the first wave of language localization probably about a month ago. And then we did the second wave. Just this past week, we did another 30 languages I want to say and so we did that first Android. And we did that in I believe, Arabic and Bengali and simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese Farsi, Persian. How's that? EBO Marathi Nepali, Somali, Thai Turkish and Yoruba. And we're really, really excited about that. Between language localization and accessibility work that we're doing we always say it's really important that that everyone can experience clubhouse in a way that feels native to them. And, and

Paul
13:09
that was that was a big thing we're really excited about we're working on additional languages now and also to roll that out on iOS. We did this one on Android first, because more of our international community is on Android, but we're absolutely working to get that on iOS as well. So more people can invite their friends and colleagues and family members and talk about things relevant to their part of the world and their communities, with the people that matter most to them. And the second thing that we launched was topics. And we had topics for a while but it's been a pretty limited set of topics we've had like 150 I think, and there's so broad, they're like music and the things that really pull people together are things that are more specialized, more niche more specific to you. And of people managed to find each other somehow to talk about 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of different things. But it's been pretty hard without a real vocabulary of of, of interests around like the things that they really, really care about. And so we put out an update last week, and it's just the first version of it, it's going to keep getting better we're gonna add more topics to it and improve a lot of things we already launched a couple fast follow releases, at least one of them is already live, I believe, where where we fixed a lot of the issues and tuned a lot of things but we added 1000s of detailed and granular topics so you can search for things like the Dodgers instead of searching for baseball, you can search for your city, your university, your academic interests, your your favorite sub genres of music, I think the list of things that we added in this first wave includes more detailed versions of a lot of the 140 topics that we have today. It includes every country and continent, a bunch of cities, a lot more languages, places that people are visiting for replace about those things. Sports teams from all over the world. sporting events, music festivals, like investing indices who meet a club to talk about the market religions and identities. We added dozens and dozens of the top crypto projects and different different specializations within crypto, we added universities and political parties and religions. And we're going to be adding a lot more. But we we really, really encourage you to take a look and add some of those to your profile to your rooms. So that's the first thing that we have expanded the vocabulary from 150 to 1000s. A couple other things that we did, we made it so that you can display topics on your profile. So your interest used to be private. And now we've added the ability to put them publicly on your profile. You can choose to hide all of them or some of them if you want or you can add them to your profile which is what most people do. And that's really cool because every time someone visits your profile when you pop into a room, they can know the things that you're passionate about it. It's a really good conversation starter. The other thing that you can do, when you see an interest on someone's profile, you can tap on it. And you can view all of the other people who are interested in that thing. All the clubs that tend to meet and talk about those things, all of the live rooms that are talking about that thing, all of the upcoming events that are about that thing. And so if you if you're also interested in it, you can add to your profile too. So it just really creates a system where topics are embedded in the fabric of clubhouse. And every time you go to a room to a profile to a club page. That page, you can discover more topics that might be relevant to your interests and you can add them to your own profile so we can send you better and better recommendations and connect with people who share your passions. I alluded to the fact we have new topic pages every time you tap on them, you can see all the results about these topics. And the other thing which you might notice in this room right now, is we added the ability to tag rooms with topics. So as a creator, you'll be able to add these topics when you create the room or right now when your room is live. You can just tap on them and you can add topics to your room to help more people find it. The more specific you can be the better because the you know those are the most meaningful connections or systems will propagate those out more to people who are passionate about those niche things and we we started rolling that out on both iOS and Android this past week. And again, we're going to make a lot of improvements to that. If there are topics that you would like to add to the vocabulary please let us know on new what's the best way for people to suggest new topics

Anu
17:59
this is a good question. I think in the new feature orientation earlier this week, John was so kind enough to say people could send him DMS. That being said I don't think that's the most efficient way but I think actually John just messaged me it looks like we now have a form. So let me coordinate with him. We made quick progress. Let me coordinate with him to see how we can best get that form available to everybody. Okay, by the end of town hall.

Paul
18:24
Great. Perfect. Okay, so um, so really that was what we did. This past week we did the second wave of language localization and then we launched the next version of topics there and we're going through we're seeing a bunch of things that like, we're tuning with the vocabulary, like, you know, I think there are two I think there's football and soccer and how do we distinguish football from football? Like, there's a bunch of stuff like that that we need to figure out but we'll figure all that stuff out. I'm just really excited that we had the foundation for that right now. So people could start getting connected to other people who share those those really detailed things that they care about love. And this week, we're doing another release. And this there are a number of smaller things here that we're pretty excited about that that people have been asking for for a while and then we've got a couple big releases coming up before the end of the year. So we're continuing to just stay heads down and ship on all this sort of stuff. This week. Here are the things I want to talk about. One is we are creating a new room composer. So when you tap the Plus Room button in the hallway, we're improving that experience for you. And we're gonna roll this out first on Android, and we're going to roll that out on Android this week, then iOS is going to be a fast follow. But there are a couple things that you're going to be able to do that are going to be really cool like a lot of times when you're hosting a room, it's a little bit of a scramble to to like get everything set up when people are coming in and you have to like mute it and then add topics to it. Let's you saw me doing at the beginning of this room today. And you have to decide what you want the Andreescu on or off and then you got to add the pin links. And it's cool that you can do those things but you don't really want to do it when everyone is piling in and you're trying to keep everyone entertained. And so what we're doing is we're creating a new thing called a root composer, or an evolution of the current room composer that's gonna let you get everything set up really nicely before you go live. So you'll be able to you'll be able to do things like add topics, you're going to be able to add your pin links ahead of time, you're gonna be able to get everything really nice and set up set the privacy like decide whether the hand raised cue should be on or off when you open it up, decide whether you want replays on like you're gonna you're gonna have a chance to get everything set up really nice before you start the room. And there are a couple other things which are gaps today, which which this is going to fix. So one is you'll be able to start a members only room or a public room from a club. Like we noticed that a lot of times people come on and they they start impromptu rooms that are hosted by a club and you don't have the full functionality when you want to do that today. I think you can't turn replays on like there's some things that are pretty, pretty broken about that experience. So you're going to be able to start public club rooms from the composer with replays enabled. And then you're also going to be able to have room permalinks Sorry, what we call room links on Android, so it's going to be a much nicer foundation. We're going to add stuff to it over time. I'm not doing it justice without a visual of what the room composer looks like. But new room composer coming this week on Android and iOS to follow soon so you can get your room really nice and set up before it goes live. The next thing that we're launching this week is we're going to start showing the total attendee count to everyone in the room. So if you're speaker right now, with with the launch of replays, we rolled out the ability to see not just the number of people who are currently in the room, but the total number of attendees that your room has had since it started and we've gotten really good feedback on that people. It's crazy like you it's hard to to like not fully understand how much reach your room is getting. Like it's easy to not fully understand how mature you are. You're just getting when we don't show that and it's been something that people have really appreciated and really enjoyed. And we've gotten a lot of feedback that they won't be able to see it when they're in the audience. And so we're we're adding that to the room display for everyone in the room with more to come on the analytics front over the coming weeks, but total audience count for speakers and for listeners and for live rooms and for the replays. That will work. Another thing that we're doing this week is we're rolling out an NSFW toggle, which will give you the option to let let clubhouse know that you don't want to see any rooms that might be NSFW in your hallway. And you'll be able to go to settings and and into your account and you can toggle that on or off so you can choose the type of experience that you want to have. There aren't a ton of those rooms, but like if you don't want to see that and you see that that's a really bad experience. So we want to make sure you have the option to do that. We're also another thing that we're doing this week is we're making it easier for

Paul
23:24
people who click on your link on the open internet like say you're hosting a room and you're inviting someone to register for your event. You're inviting someone to listen to your replay. You're posting a link to something and you post it out on the internet. You post it out to instagram or twitter or to like a Facebook group. It's wherever your audience lives. If they have clubhouse and they and they click on it, they tap on it. It'll pull up the relevant room for them and it's really good experience. If they don't have clubhouse Historically, it's been a it's been a pretty rough experience because they would install it and they would just go through the regular clubhouse new user experience and they would see your room at the end they'd have to go tap on that link again, which makes it harder for you to grow your audience your your club membership, your follower base. And so we're adding really nice deep linking this week, so that when someone goes and clicks on one of your links, they tap on one of your links on the internet. And they go through the install clubhouse it'll take them directly to your club directly to your room directly to your replay. So you can more easily grow your following over time. And I know that seems like a small thing, but that's actually a really big deal for a lot of creators. So I just want to call that one out specifically. Another thing which is an annoyance, it doesn't seem like a big feature like a big blog worthy feature, but it's something that I'm so excited for us to fix is you know how the hallway jumps when you come back from a room. Like there'll be like a replay carousel or something that you're going through. You go into a room and you come back and the whole hallway refreshes and you lose your place. We're fixing that. So when you come back from a room, your hallway will stay still if you're looking at a carousel you will still be on that carousel. It you know small things like this really add up to the experience. So we're shipping a fix for that this week. And those are the things that you're going to see this week it's new, the new room composer Android total listener account available to everyone whether they're on stage or in the audience for live rooms and replay rooms, a toggle in the settings for NSFW content, deep linking so people can more easily find your replay or your club if they come in from elsewhere on the internet. And we're fixing the hallway jumping. And I also just want to give a big thank you to everyone in the community who can who's continued to share feedback on accessibility features, especially as we roll out a new way of accessibility features. This happened at the new user orientation and it was fantastic and incredibly helpful. And we've we've been helped by the community in so many ways on this front. And so I just wanted to say a big thank you on behalf of our whole team for the feedback for some of those features especially that might not be visible to to everyone within clubhouse. So thank you. Thank you Thank you. We're taking that we're iterating on that and is shipping some new fixes over the next few releases. So that's what we've got coming up. And as I mentioned before, we have some big things that I'm super excited about over the next few weeks. So we're working hard to finish the year strong and keep making this thing better for you every week. That's it q&a. Let's do it. All right. Let's 927 I thought we were gonna go through this first.

26:34
I know, I know. I was reflecting on our Slack message.

26:39
Every time guys it's I don't know,

Paul
26:41
ever learn. So I've always like in our in our back channel. I've always like I wonder if we have enough stuff to talk about. Maybe we should have more questions and audio and stuff and always like Paul, you're going to go over we'll be fine.

26:54
Insert emoji I roll.

Anu
26:56
Yeah, exactly. Can we pin emojis to rooms I feel like next request. Let's get started with q&a. As always, we have been starting with questions about our most recent features because I think that's what people have been playing with the most and often have a ton of feedback for us on so we can both educate folks on answers to the questions and continue to get feedback. So firstly, I wanted to quickly pin a Google form. For anybody who has been patiently waiting to send us topic suggestions. Just send this to me. I think he actually just spun it up real quick because we had an internal one until now. So now we have an externally available one so please please please tap on the pin link. And let us know if you have requests for new topics to be added and it will go straight to our team.

Paul
27:45
Can we add can we add this to the Knowledge Center?

Anu
27:48
Or hopefully we should yeah, I'll message the team afterwards. We'll we'll make sure it gets done but for right now feel free to tap through the link.

Paul
27:57
I love how a lot of our features start out as Google forums and notion I know. Yes,

Spea
28:03
I love how quickly I knew and John just spun that up.

Anu
28:09
Here we use a lot of no code for our pre pre feature betas. So alright, so let me get into the questions while folks submit suggestions to us. So first question. It's a bit of a philosophical one, Paul, are topics equivalent to what we think of as hashtags and if not, how do we think about that differently?

Paul
28:33
Oh, okay. So um, so let's see. Let me let me talk about a little some of the differences because we talked about this a bunch. So the short answer is no, not right now. And yes, maybe in the future. And the differences are there a few different ways you can approach it if you want people to Anna to be able to annotate rooms and profiles and other things like that. There are different ways you can do it. One way is hashtags, which is incredibly freeform, they're user generated, it could be anything. So there are a lot of things that are nice about hashtags. One is you they're instantly localized anywhere in the world because people just enter them themselves. They're really easy to create because everyone creates them together. It can be emergent. You can have hashtags for events that are happening right now people can use them in funny ways and creative ways. There are a lot of advantages to having them all be user generated. The disadvantages are one is like moderation. You need to make sure that you've got really good processes in place to to prevent abuse and to prevent people from using hashtags and in ways that we don't want people to use hashtags. And or that might violate the community guidelines. I think the other thing is, you don't have as much information and a hashtag, you don't know what it is. So like if we create our own vocabulary or own taxonomy, then then we can know what these things represent. And there are kind of different ways we can approach it to right now we have a flat vocabulary, which is that there's no hierarchy explicitly and in in our topic list right now. We could have like a have more information behind that we could have a hierarchical taxonomy. And so so so we can know that if you select Dodgers, that is a baseball team and that baseball is a sport and it is associated with this city in this country. Like there are all sorts of things that we can know about that, which would help us suggest related topics for you, siblings, children, parents of that topic that you selected, the downside of a full article system like that. Is it's harder to maintain and it's harder to change. You can't easily change the schema over time. And and there you'll have all sorts of debates about whether something should be a subset of this or if it should be appear or if we should create a new one and what about this like it? It's quite a lot of work to maintain that and evolve that over time. And, you know, like right now we have new topics request because everything is a flat vocabulary, we can just add a bunch of topics and like there's not much of a cost to that which is really nice. And you can still do recommendations through clustering like people who select this topic. tend to also select this one rooms that are tagged with this topic tend to be co tagged with this topic. So so that's kind of the lay of the land, you have hashtags and then you can have like a flat vocabulary or you can have a hierarchical taxonomy. Right now, ours is a flat vocabulary. But I imagine that over time, there's so many things that people want to talk about. And there are a lot of advantages to having a more user generated system. So in the future, what we want to do is allow people to add user generated topics and we don't know yet whether we will blow up the vocabulary and have everything be user generated, or we will have some sort of formal vocabulary or taxonomy that coexist alongside these, these, these user generated topics. So that's probably a more thorough answer than than anyone wanted, but so they're not right now, but they might be in the future.

Anu
32:29
Yes, I know we've had a lot of discussion, a lot of requests from staff about specific cowboy boots based topics, so wait for the user generated face.

Paul
32:42
And John, anything or if I misrepresented anything, please let me know John, John, our team loves loves loves ontologies and knowledge graphs. is the mastermind so

32:55
perfect. Okay, couple more.

32:57
Yeah. John, plot on.

Anu
33:01
How are topics decided? And can some of them made to be regional? I think we kind of covered the first one but can you touch a little bit on the second one?

Paul
33:10
Yeah. So right now we are working to localize the topics into the different languages that we support, and we'll do that in waves. And this question of whether we can have certain topics available to one region versus versus everywhere. I assume the answer is yes. Like and John just confirmed like over time, yes. Because you can imagine that there is a single set of entities and you just have different labels for those entities to represent how you describe that entity in other languages. But then, you can also imagine there are some topics that just really don't apply to certain parts of the world because maybe they maybe they're, you know, for something that very, very few people know of or care about in one country, but it's really important in another country. So I think what we're starting with is probably labels for the same topics and then and then over time, absolutely, we will have them regional. And if you have topics that you want to suggest, and they are regional, feel free to submit them in the new topics request form that's pinned to this room right now, because it's really helpful for us to understand what topics you want to add. And I suspect there's a way for us to do that sooner rather than later.

Anu
34:31
Perfect, specific question do topic support emojis?

Pau 
34:37
So they do in the submission form, we asked you what emoji should be should be used to represent the topic. And we done it in a way like the ones that we have right now. They all have emojis. And I gotta imagine that's not gonna be sustainable. And if we have user generated ones, then we'll probably have some fallback, like just the hashtag symbol or something like that. We don't currently let you search by emoji, but that's something we were talking about this past week.

Anu
35:03
Yeah. So I think that's the question folks if they can just, in a sense, painter specific emoji to a room. Okay. Will there be a way to RSVP for all rooms related to a specific topic? Or to ask to be notified more often about rooms on topics I like? Is there a way that my selections would be factored into my hallway recommendations or notice already? And I, I suppose there's a distinction we should make between interests and room topics?

Paul
35:32
Yeah, so let me let me break that down. So if you add topics to your profile those do affect the recommendations that you receive. And that's really important. So it's like really useful and really important to add topics to your profile. You can hide them if you don't want other people to see them. But the more you can tell us about the type of content that you want. To see the the more we're going to be able to suggest useful content to you. So that is, that's the first thing that I would say. And then the couple other things. They already factored into your recommendations. Now, you mentioned the room topics. So it's a two way matching problem, right? Like if you're interested in bluegrass, I need to know that and then we also need to know that this room or event or a club is about bluegrass. So the ability for people to tag the room with that is that that's the other part of the equation. So yes, we do use those signals to do matching. Now, the first question is will there be a way to RSVP for all rooms that are related to a specific topic? Now, I want to point out one thing that we do have already is if you tap on a topic, and then you tap to follow the topic. We have the bell also appears on user profiles. So you know when you follow someone and you you see a little bell up here to the left. If anyone doesn't know this, you can tap on that bell and you can say, notify me sometimes when this person talks notify me never ever when this person talks, I want to follow them but I don't want to get notice about them or notify me always when this person talks. And you can do the same thing on topics. So you can follow a topic and you can tap the bell and say always notify me. It's probably I should talk to the team about it. That's probably a bit misleading because we're not going to notify you about every single time that I just think that would not be a good experience. There'd be a lot of spam there. But it does give us a better spam potential. It does give us a better signal for how much you care about that topic. So the best way to do it is to tap the bell right now.

Anu
37:57
Alright, so I'm sure we'll get more questions about topics but in the meantime, please submit your requests on the form that we've pinned here. So let's let's go to some questions about replays also somewhat new and I think continuing to evolve in terms of how the community and creators are using them. So first question, it'd be nice to be able to remove a replay of a club room from my personal profile while still keeping it on The Club page. Is that currently possible? And how are you thinking about relationship between I guess club based replays and individual replace?

Paul
38:34
So this person is the they're the one who Oh, that's interesting. So like, they're the admin of the club or they started the club room. They want to remove it from their personal profile to keep it on The Club. I think that's right. Yep. Yeah, that makes sense. I like if you're the admin of the club and you have the ability to remove it from the club. That makes sense. And I feel like we should support that. I I'm thinking about it in real time, though. So maybe there's a reason why it's implemented the way it's implemented beyond just like we didn't think about it or more complexity, but I think that's a great suggestion and and I feel like we should support that. So why don't I follow up with the team on it? Or team if you're listening, please.

39:27
This is not a test.

Paul
39:30
That'll take one item off my to do list

Anu
39:33
I'm okay. Around volume four replace in a replay room, it seems like the sound volume of people talking is either lower or higher than it is in the live room. Is this intentional? And if not, I guess will there be any changes made to it? No, it's not something I've personally experienced.

Paul
39:57
So let's see. This is this is a replay room specifically or if this is Oh, interesting to replace, it's different than in live interesting. I, I don't know. The like I haven't experienced that. I don't know why we would do it this way. If anyone on the team is familiar with this, then then please let me know shoot me a message here and backchannel but I would suspect that we've seen issues like this before, for reasons that I don't fully understand. There. There are times where you might jump to the audience and the volume would change. Or there might be one speaker sounds a little louder, a little quieter than the other speakers. That stuff. I can't think of a product reason why we would want that. And so I think that's probably just good feedback. If you ever see that happening, and please report it, because knowing the specifics, can sometimes help us troubleshoot. I think our goal is to have everything be beautiful and crisp and 3d spatial and like good, normalizing of all the sound levels. So apologies if you're seeing that we should fix that.

Anu
41:06
Yes, feature requests that we get a lot is to be able to normalize the volume across different speakers, and I'm sure that'd be the same request for replace as well. Yeah. All right. Question on editing for replace. So what happens if a rule replay is on and a person comes in and might say something either inappropriate or something they later want to remove? If they were a guest speaker for example, is there anything we can do to cut this out from a room's replay can clubhouse the clubhouse team do something to cut it out from the replay or you know, what do we have in the works as far as making this edit available?

Paul
41:43
We do not have those tools yet. It's something we've absolutely thought about. And it's something that we plan to add in the future. In the meantime, if you want if you're the creator of the room, you could still download the replay edit it yourself and then you'll have the recording that you could then upload to a podcast or to YouTube or elsewhere on the internet. But in terms of having that edited version, live on clubhouse, we don't currently have that capability, and it's something that we plan to build.

Anu
42:12
Alright, one more question about replays Can you add a saved for later page or list for replays? I noticed that after I started listening to replay and leave the room it's difficult, if not impossible for me to find the replay again. And it would also help with organizing what I plan to listen to.

Paul
42:30
Yes Yes, please. I was joking with audio earlier. I'm like we're pitting all these links. I want to save all these. We need to save function. Yeah, I know there are people in the team excited about that. We're doing part of this week we're getting the team together. We're doing a little X button. I know there's some people are going to be working on that. So I'm really excited. It's like a clear missing thing and we should definitely have that. Alright, my friend Ryan, who just joined

Anu
43:01
Ryan Alright Okay, I'm gonna breeze through a few more questions cuz I know we're, we're running a little bit short. I went Oh,

Paul
43:12
all right. I'll go

Anu
43:16
about finding people which I think is, you know, one of the core purposes in some sense that people come here for so will you ever add location based features? For example, imagine I have a tab where I only see rooms that are happening in the Los Angeles County area. I think this would be very powerful in terms of building a community and making social audio useful in the real world and allowing for people to network and meet.

Paul 
43:44
Yeah, I love that idea. I built a location based social app in the past and I think that's a super cool idea. So yeah, I could see us doing that. I think that's a great, great suggestion.

43:56
All right, you're sticking to the fast. Boom. It's almost throwing me off but I

Stephanie
44:01
like a whole new same excitement, same level exuberant? Yes.

Anu
44:10
Could we have a very basic visual communication feature that tells us a timezone of users for example, like a badge. For example, a moon to indicate the local time is after midnight? Or you know, I guess like another way to tell us what part of the day somebody in the opposite.

Paul
44:34
Oh, I think that's a really cool idea. I find that to be very useful in like productivity, productivity tools. The one thing we just want to be careful of is privacy. Like we'd obviously want it to be something where you you opt into telling people where you are in the world, I suppose. So. Yeah, I think that's a really cool idea. I haven't thought about that before. I love getting suggestions from like, yeah, that makes sense. I didn't even think about that. So I think that's really cool. I would in like, hopefully we'll add that. In the not too distant.

Anu
45:09
Take all of these. It's like additional hackathon projects.

Paul
45:13
No, seriously, I literally no, don't good idea. We should do.

Stephanie
45:21
Not over resources, we can't accept new projects.

Anu
45:26
Okay, can you please find a way to to show us what the actual room that a person is in is about from the buddy list and from their profile and a little bit of context right now if you go to the buddy list or the sidebar, you can kind of see what room you know, somebody were one of your friends is in, but I guess you can't really expand to get more information about that room before. Tapping through to it.

Paul
45:53
Yes, that would be useful. I feel like that should be on the profile too.

Anu
45:59
Yes, I think that's the question is like anywhere you show me a room that somebody is in that? Well, I suppose anywhere there's a room that I might be tapping to join. I just want to be able to see the information about it. I had a hand

Paul
46:12
I think I told you, I think that makes sense. To think about where that fits in with other stuff that we've been working on. I'll have to think about that because I don't know, I got unless you're what that looks like or where, like, how we would think about that in the context of the other stuff we're prioritizing right now, but it obviously makes sense. Like anytime you can see an ellipse sized piece of text, and you can't see the full thing that's silly, right. So we should fix that.

Anu
46:46
All right, a few questions coming from creators and folks that really have been hosting conversations on clubhouse. I'd love to connect my LinkedIn and clubhouse profiles or other socials beyond the existing Twitter and Instagram links. And I guess it's really a question but is there a way to administer clubhouse? On a computer, which would make it easier? I suppose for some professional use cases.

Paul
47:13
So two different things. I want to add my LinkedIn and can I use clubhouse on the desktop? Correct. So right now links we only have a couple and they fit nicely into one row. We should we would like to enable more. We just need a UI for doing that. We're working on some some like design refresh stuff over the coming months, so maybe we can fit it into that. In the meantime, like a simple thing. We could probably do is just like make links capital on profiles. And I know that we there's a big like, you have to make sure that you have the right security and spam prevention measures before you do that. But we do do that for pin links now so I wonder if that would be too much of an additional lift. The second question about the desktop I would love to have a desktop plan. We don't yet but but I would like to in the future web view or desktop feature in the meantime like yeah, we don't have that yet. Like so. Yeah. Anytime you have to edit your bio on your phone.

Anu
48:22
Yes. Okay, so more questions around creators and actually want to ask you to chat about this one a little bit higher level, Paul, if you don't mind. In addition, I guess the question is around voting feature, the moderator can start a poll to vote for all the people to allow voting from everybody in the room. It could be started with a time limit. And moderators could stop it at any time they want. When the time is out, the results would be shown to everybody in the room. So that's obviously a feature request for a polling feature. But yeah, I know we get so many questions just in general, but how we can get audience input so I was gonna ask you to maybe share some thoughts on that as well.

Paul
49:00
Yeah. So when we think about when we think about helping people, post grapes and clubhouse, the main thing that we've been focused on I would say, we have done things like pin links, which I think are really important. But I think a lot of what we've been focused on is, is helping you get reliable distribution, through things like replays and through clips and a lot of other stuff that we're going to be adding. I'm really excited like we're working on 2022 planning right now. And I'm really excited for us to to be able to expand our work to focus on in room stuff. And polling is one thing that I think people have asked for, which is really cool. A lot of people use pin links to hack polls right now, but it's it could certainly be made easier in improvements. The hand raised queue. That's another thing we've thought about in room feedback from the audience, like how do you make sure that you how do you help people like have community and have interaction with their audience in a way that isn't distracting to them? In a way that doesn't allow for it that keeps creators in control? Like if it's your room, you should control it, you shouldn't have anything distracting there. You shouldn't have people saying negative things about you that take you out of the conversation. At the same time, like you should be able to experience the positive you should be able to get a standing ovation and roaring applause and and all of the things that make performing so fun and exciting. So no details that that we can share right now. But it's something that we're actively working on on the design front. And it's something that I think is going to be really transformative to the experience and we're super excited about it.

Anu
50:44
All right. Are you thinking about enabling creators to run ads for their rooms inside clubhouse, for example, showing rooms on a topic to people who like that topic? I think that last piece is something we are already think about doing but I guess is there a way for creators to affect how often or who would see their

Paul
51:04
rooms? Well, I think if people are creating good room about it, good rooms about a topic, and other people are really interested in that topic, then we should take that into account with our ranking algorithms, which we already do today. With regards to monetization. We're really excited about direct forms of modernization that align the interests of clubhouse for the interests of creators where where people can get paid directly by happy listeners who want to thank them for the experience that they're that they're great like subscriptions and real in room Tipene and paid events and things like that. Brand sponsorships I suppose you could call that ever advertising like people. People are doing that a lot today. They're working with brands are partnering with brands brands are sponsoring all different types of rooms. Steph has seen a ton of this. And we think that's great. Like if there are people that want to host great conversations and brands that want to pay them to do it to get a shout out from the Creator in the room. I think that's fantastic. And we can make that easier for them. All the better. But our focus on the monetization front is really on things that help creators get paid not not ads for clubhouse

Anu
52:13
stuff, any tips from you on the brand stuff? I know you've been working on that a lot.

Stephanie
52:19
I mean, I think we've seen a lot of really good examples. I mean, even Julissa one of the rooms I gave today, you know, that was a really natural thing for the beauty room and Mac I think we saw I was actually honored to be a guest on Abraxis Higgins partnership with IWC they do a really cool series on creators. You know, I think a lot of these happen because brands might be perusing the hallways are really interested and they might find them organically or they might come to us on the partnerships team. So you know, as far as tips, I think there's a lot of a lot of amazing creators that are opening rooms and sharing knowledge like that's also something that I'm loving seeing is I think, Katherine Connors and James Andrews often hosts rooms giving people tips I'm sure practice or others you know, will happily share there's anything from giving a brand a shout in the title of the room to how many times you maybe give a mention or how much promotion like there's a lot of community and creator sort of sharing information about best practices, but you can also honor you spent a lot of time put together an incredible you know, set of resources and creator comments. I think we probably will do more about for that for brands. But you know, I guess the best thing I would just say is there's often creators hosting rooms about how best to work with brands and sort of some tips and maybe what do you charge and you know, what should be expected and now what is what are brands expecting from listenership etc. So I would say if you're interested in partnering with brands definitely be on the lookout in the hallways because there's often a lot of creators that are hosting rooms about it. Or you can also reach out to us at

Paul
53:55
partnerships at clubhouse

Anu
53:58
love it. Good old email always a backup option. Okay. A question around really just around like getting an audience or getting people I think into your room. So I'm all about collaboration over competition and truly building authentic communities. I guess my question is more about how to still kind of show up and stand out. Is there something in the algorithms that can help us with this? Like how do you think about getting people into rooms? What is the best way? Is that the title, the topic, that hashtags I suppose new topics. emojis like bringing popular people into the room. I feel like this is a catch all

Paul
54:35
for how do you want to take this one on here?

Anu
54:39
Why don't why don't I start with a few and maybe you and stuff can can add on? Yeah, sounds good. So I guess you know, I think there's a very broad question. I think my strawman for thinking about this a little bit is like what would you do before the conversation during the conversation? And after the conversation actually. And with regards to before I think there's a piece just about, you know, how new are you to clubhouse and if you're new, like the thing that we generally suggest is to really focus on joining existing clubs joining existing rooms meeting people and kind of building a small community for yourself. So getting engaged, and then that's a really good way to find collaborators, and ideally, people who've already been on clubhouse a bit. And that'll really help you before you start your first room or start first event. Once you've kind of done that. I think if you're ready to start your room, Paul and we always talk about like, make sure you schedule in advance. If it's kind of your first one, we suggest that if it's a bigger event, grab the share link, share it off platform if you have communities off platform or just make sure that people know about it and get the word out. A couple of quick things as far as like during the conversation, or maybe just before so tiling this person mentioned super important. So if you don't have a lot of followers, for example, you're not known for something super important to make sure the title reflects what you're going to talk about in as specific as possible to bring people in that may not know you, but may be interested in that topic. For example, during the conversation, bringing people up from the audience and engaging people I think is always a great way especially for early creators to to build community and just let people participate actively in the conversation. And I won't take too much more time. But one quick thing about after the conversation. We obviously have replays now, so if you had replays on, I think it doesn't really stop at the end of the conversation like grab that link to the replay, share it to your communities, like I mentioned off platform or on platform and just get people you know, give people a taste of what the conversation you've hosted has been like and hopefully they'll want to come back for the next one. So we have like Steph mentioned we have a bunch more in the Creative Commons. I know there are a bunch of rooms at the community and creators Ron just giving you more tips, but I kind of like to break it down as like before, during and after. And I think there's a lot more things that we do obviously on the algorithm and discovery side to help.

Paul
56:56
I know we're almost at time so the only thing I would add is like we're gonna be doing we're shipping a bunch of stuff to help with this in the future to future meaning like next few weeks product features. It's so important. Yeah. And like we know that this has been something that there's that like really matters to people and that's why we've been focused on it and so, more to come.

Anu
57:21
Okay, two quick questions for you, Paul. When do you anticipate increasing the room size limit above the 8k?

Paul
57:28
We want it to be arbitrarily large to support arbitrarily large rooms and I think I saw a Slack message the other day from someone on the team saying that we could we should be able to increase it pretty soon. Like, it sounded like it was possible now ish, and they just needed to test a few things. So that makes me hopeful that we could bump it up soon and I don't know. Like we're not gonna it's not gonna be infinite but maybe we double it or something like that. And then in the not too distant future.

Anu
57:57
How does this arbitrarily large mean unlimited? Yes. Okay.

Paul
58:02
Yeah, that's another way.

Anu
58:07
Okay, another fun one. So I know we recently announced a bug bounty program. Someone wrote in it's awesome that you now have this bounty program by hacker one. It appears to only be for security related bugs. If if that's right. Are you thinking about doing bounties for other types of bugs? You know, UI UX other bugs as well? Thanks.

Paul
58:26
Ron. Are we thinking about doing bounties for other types of bugs? Like I know the security ones are obviously more commonly done? We thought we have plenty of bugs that we need to fix because, you know, we ship stuff really quickly. But But do you think that we're going to do extend a bug bounty program to be on security bugs there now? I don't have a great answer for that right now. But let me talk to the team. Chris, he's listening and he'd have an opinion on this. Traditionally, we've only done that for security bugs. And yeah, something I'll ask the team about cool there you go.

Anu
59:06
All right. Well, on that note, I think we're at a time so do we want to go into what's coming up this week?

Paul
59:14
Yeah, let's do it. I just we're, yeah, we're out of time on requests for shows. Any any pressing requests for shows?

Anu
59:24
I mean, what would you say Paul? I feel like there's always I'm always looking for more recurring rooms.

Paul
59:30
Yes. That or recurring recommendation rooms. I like those. I really like like, weekly rooms for like, here are five startups you should know about. Here are like five good albums you should know about. I think those are those are great. Like a lot of people are doing end of the year recaps and previews of like the books and games, movies and TV shows and music that people are excited about the year ahead. Like the recurring we know you're busy. Once a week, tune in here and we'll tell you what the good things are. I I would love to see more of this. Okay, more, one minute over what's coming up this week. What's coming up today? I know tomorrow, the science fiction club who's been on a tear is going to be hosting legendary author Kim Stanley Robinson, who, in addition to talking about the like dozen plus Modern Classics over the past few decades is going to discuss his latest novel, the Ministry for the future, which is simultaneously one of the most terrifying and optimistic books about climate change that has ever been written. So that's tomorrow out of the science fiction club. And on Tuesday night musica italiana club will be hosting some of the best film talent from Italy for discussion about their work like films from everything from like Wonder Woman to Dunkirk and Lion King and Pirates of the Caribbean hopefully, I'm not talking too quickly because I know we're trying to pin links to all that sort of stuff but that's the musica italiana club and that is on Tuesday, great film discussion that is happening there. So tap the link and tap the bell if you want to attend any of these on Wednesday. If you are a Beatles fan, you haven't caught the new Beatles documentary. I've been hearing really good things about this one. It's

1:01:20
amazing. It's amazing. Isn't it amazing?

Paul
1:01:23
Yeah. So you can check out the NPR music team unpacking the new Peter Jackson documentary on the fab floor and I'm gonna just tap that hold on a second.

1:01:35
Do yourself I just got a chance to

Paul
1:01:43
go back to the other I'll check out the replay. I'm already I think I'm already a member of these clubs. Okay, so what was the other one? There was one other Oh, yeah. Oh, this is a big one. Okay, we want to close out the townhall by telling you about this amazing speaking series that's happening throughout this week from the one and only Jason Steinhauer. So Jason is awesome. Jason is like, clubhouse. Old school. He Jason has the History Club, which I love. It's like he I wish that we had replaced back when Jason started history club, because there's so many amazing rooms that Jason has hosted, each tackling a different topic related to history. And Jason is actually he wrote a book called History disrupted and Jason if you're in the room right now, I tried to preorder the audiobook, and there's no audio book yet. So I'm waiting. I really want that but I can't wait to read this book. It's called History disruptive. And he's gonna be hosting a conversation series to celebrate the upcoming book. And he's gonna be stopping by a different club each day. So they're doing these club collaborations and in the book Jason talks about how the Internet, with with its information and misinformation and everything in between has changed the way that we understand our history. And he's going to be talking about it from a bunch of different thematic angles from the angle of media and politics and tech and science and culture in the future. And each club is gonna focus on a different thematic topic. So this is just so awesome. Jason's incredible. The and the clubs that are participating are amazing. It's like everything from human behavior and citizens of culture and we the future, and others are gonna be participating and and there's gonna be a big celebratory stop at the History Club, or where Jason ties it all together. So please keep a lookout for these rooms. I'm incredibly excited about that. And check out Jason's upcoming book history disruptive. Thank you so much, everyone. I know we're five minutes over, but hopefully that gives you a good sense of what's coming up and there's so many things that we didn't mention today that really, really excited about over the coming weeks. So we're going to be ending the year on a bang and got a bunch of new stuff that we're planning for q1, which is going to be awesome. So I appreciate your spending some of your Sunday with us. And if you're new to clubhouse, we've got new user orientation, as always, this Wednesday at five o'clock Pacific Time. And we'll be back for town hall next week at 9am. Pacific on Sunday. Thank you everyone. Have a great rest of your day or rest of your evening wherever you are in the world and we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks all
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