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🎙 Let’s talk! Get a sneak preview of Reddit Talk and give us your feedback
Hi there mods,
Today we’re excited to give you a sneak preview of Reddit Talk, a new feature that lets you host live audio conversations in your communities. Sign up for our waitlist if you’re interested in trying out the feature, and we’ll let you know when it’s ready.
Currently, you can use text threads, images, videos, chats, and live streams to have conversations and hang out with people in your communities. While these are great mediums, there are other times where having a live audio talk may be more useful or, frankly, more fun. So we want to partner with you to explore a new way for community members to communicate with each other.
Here's how Reddit Talk works:
Starting a talk
Talks live within communities and, during early tests, only a community’s moderators will be able to start a talk (see below for more details around moderation).
Joining a talk
Once a talk is live, any redditor can join the room to listen in and react with emojis. Listeners can also raise their hand for the host to invite them to speak.
Moderating a talk
Hosts can invite, mute, and remove speakers during a talk. They can also remove unwanted users from the talk entirely and prevent them from rejoining. As we mentioned above, only mods can start talks during early tests, but they can invite trusted speakers to co-host a talk. We're looking forward to working with you all to make sure that Reddit Talk has the best moderation experience possible.
Personalizing talks for each community
We're testing ways for hosts to customize the look and feel of Reddit Talk through emojis and background colors. Redditors can change their avatar's appearance to fit the talk as well. We're also exploring features to support AMAs and other types of conversations.
What’s Reddit Talk for?
Well, whatever communities want to use it for. You can start talks for Q&As, AMAs, lectures, sports-radio-style discussions, community feedback sessions, or simply to give community members a place to hang out.
Interested? Get in on the early tests
If you're interested in trying out Reddit Talk for your community, please add yourself to our waitlist and we’ll let you know when Reddit Talk will be available. During early tests, only moderators will be able to start talks, but any redditor on iOS and Android can listen in. After these early tests, we'll work with moderators to let other trusted community members host talks as well.
And now... let’s talk!
What do you think? Is this something your community would be interested in? Are there more features you’d like to see? Better moderations tools that would help?
Ask questions and share your thoughts in the comments below. We would love to hear your ideas and build this product with your help.
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Will subreddits be able to opt out of this feature entirely?
Sunsetting Reddit Talk
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Hi all,
Today we’re sharing that we have made the difficult decision to sunset the Reddit Talk product in the coming weeks.
Hosting Reddit Talks will continue to be available until March 21. The Happening Now experiment will also wind-down on this date.
Why did we make this decision?
TL;DR: Supporting Talk in the short-term requires significant resourcing - more than we anticipated.
Reddit’s goal is to become the de facto home for communities. Audio, like Talk, has a place in that. However, there’s significant work we need to do - like making Reddit simpler and building better subreddit infrastructure - before incorporating audio.
Our original plan was to maintain Talk while we worked on this. Unfortunately, the 3rd party audio vendor we use for Talk is shutting down its service. In other words, the resources required to keep Talk live during this transition increased substantially.
We don’t have a timeline to bring Talk or an audio product back in the future, however we will share any updates when we have them.
Learnings
We learned that communities of all sizes can make unique connections through live social conversations. And if our goal is to make Reddit the place for communities, audio will likely play a part in the future.
We also understood more about the need for community discovery (for communities that want it), particularly with the Live Bar experiment. Though we decided not to continue with the Live Bar, it underlined how we should think about bringing awareness and growth opportunities to small communities.
We’re working on more subreddit discovery spaces throughout this year that we’ll share in more detail on r/reddit.
Most importantly, we learned all this through community feedback and partnership. Reddit Talk was built alongside and for you all. The engagement and feedback from this community was amazing and critical to bringing this product to life.
What’s next
Talks hosted after September 1, 2022 will be available for download. Reason being, this is when we implemented a new user flow that expanded the potential use case of talks.
Users can start downloading talks starting March 21 and have until June 1, 2023 before we turn the ability off. We will share more on how to download talks ahead of the March 21 date here in r/reddittalk and on this help page.
Thank you from the entire Talk team (and of course, from Reddit). Big shoutout to the many mods and hosts who really ran with Talk since we introduced it as a pilot two years ago.
People across the platform would not have been able to connect, share stories, or feel inspired without you all.
We know this is not the update that you all were looking for. We strongly believe in the future efforts we’re working on and we would love to continue partnering with you all for potential future experiences for those open to it.
As always, we’ll stick around for a while to answer any questions and hear your feedback.
Top Comment: So communities which until now have built their entire presence on talks alone (like with my Karaoke subreddit) will ostensibly be forced to die. That's really unfortunate. Also, all due respect, but you didn't "learn" much. The Live Bar was probably the one "killer feature" that Reddit Talks had over even Discord, and yet you all removed it and replaced it with an arguably much worse implementation. "Happening Now" is pretty much proof of not learning anything. You also say things like "___ was built for you" when you pretty much never actually take any feedback to heart. I witnessed a near-universal dislike for Happening Now, along with other changes to the talks structure, all of which was either ignored or openly disregarded. What is the point of feedback if you don't actually feed us anything back. It's less feedback and more tossing notes over the Berlin Wall and hoping that someone is actually listening on the other side. Such a shame that an admittedly promising and unique feature (arguably the first unique Reddit feature in years to have any success or community appreciation) gets shafted by the very people that came up with it, developed it, wrecked it, and subsequently buried it into the ground. It's almost poetic in a way. In conclusion, modern Reddit's biggest problem: itself. To all those like myself who used and appreciated the feature; It was fun while it lasted I guess. No doubt we'll see some social media program or something else steal this idea and make it even more successful. Reddit basically just spend all the R&D money for you, so why not. Cheers.
Reddit Talk is going away, so unfortunately our Casual Friday and Casual Tuesday Talks will be ending 😢
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Here is the announcement Reddit made about the feature sunsetting.
If you never heard of the talks we have here, check out this link.
It's a sad day to announce our Reddit Talks will be ending. We'll no longer be able to create them after March 21st. I think I speak for a lot of us who joined the talks when I say this is a bummer.
The talks were so much fun. We met new people from all over the world and talked about whatever random casual topic came to mind. Although that usually meant food, movies, TV, and sports, we also delved into other areas like interesting hobbies, places we live, our pets, and lots of other things.
You can find the previous talks here if you're feeling nostalgic. If that link doesn't work on mobile, try going to the search at the top of the subreddit and looking for flair:Reddit Talk
It's not over yet, though! We have a couple of weeks left, so we should be having two more Friday talks at 6 PM ET and two more Tuesday talks at 9 AM ET.
Make sure to join us while you still can!
Schedule GraphicTop Comment: This is sad news. I didn't personally take part in the talks as I'm more comfortable with written communication. But it was still great to see how many people took part, it seems like a lot of redditors really enjoyed this feature.
Is there a subreddit to find someone to talk to?
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Been through a lot lately. Having some bad thoughts. My own country's therapy and help things doesn't work so I got no one to talk, become friends with. If there is a subreddit where you can find someone to talk to, or even a friend would be lovely. Thank you all
Top Comment: For general chat there's r/casualconversation For gaming there's r/gamerpals r/playdate For individuals there's r/makenewfriendshere r/penpals r/InternetFriends r/onlinefriends r/textfriends
New to Reddit? Come and talk to us!
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New-Redditor's lounge!
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Long time lurker, finally decided to join. Thought this would be a safe place to start off and come say hi 👋
Reddit Talk is shutting down.
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Last day is March 21st.
Top Comment: This is totally unacceptable. I will forever tell tales of how great Reddit used to be. You will never financially recover from this.
how do you talk to people online
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(19f) genuinely how do u start a conversation with anyone ever? i wanna talk to people in discord servers but i feel like i don’t understand the vibe and always kill it immediately. do u just jump in conversations that are already happening? do i need to start my own? if so how? i know im overthinking it but ive tried to start a conversation like 3 times now and nothings happened what do i do
Top Comment: I’m the exact same 😠I don’t even know where to find new discord servers it’s so tricky and frustrating