Our readers and partners that we've been working with to test the feature of the past few weeks. And so we work with them to record a handful of replays some good examples for people who want to check them out right away.
Yeah, send us thank you to them. I know Anu and I will be doing an orientation on replays and just after this, but Paul, where can everyone in the audience find those replays if they're looking for them?
Well, that's a great question. Steph. highlighted two really good ones on our blog club comm to get you started and going forward. I mentioned this in town hall last Sunday, but like replays are gonna appear all throughout the app, so they'll appear on club pages of the club hosted the event, they'll appear on profile pages. If you were a speaker in the room, and you can remove it from brava if you don't want it there. If you're a creator, you can delete it, you have full control. They'll also be in the hallway there'll be a period search within the next week or so. And you know, so they're going to come a really important part of the clubhouse experience. And it's a huge evolution of the product and it's something we've been so excited to build for some time now. And I'm just really proud of the work that the team did. They did an incredible job pulling all things together. And I'm so excited to hear what everyone here thinks about them.
I know huge, huge, huge, huge props to the whole team. And I think that's all for now for joining us for yet another surprise town hall. New Do you want to take over for new feature
orientation?
I think a bunch of our teammates are going to jump on stage and they can ask answer your question.
We're gonna have to figure out how to do a better transition between our surprise town halls and we will we will go with this transition smooth
I'm gonna move Mac back to the audience. Yes, yeah.
I think that's the perfect transition on a just give them the boot and then we bring up everybody else that builds Okay,
So Steph, you and I are both moderators now. So if you wouldn't mind helping me bring up all the amazing product design engineering folks that have been working on our features as well. So for everybody who's in the room, yes. What are you saying stuff?
No, I said I'm on it. I'm on it.
Okay. You're on it perfect. For everybody who was in the room. If you just joined us. We just had their very brief but exciting surprise townhall, our long awaited feature replays launched today. So quick reminder, if you have not yet. Go to the App Store, update to the latest version and for a lot of the lunches we've been doing recently, pin links, room links, clips, Universal Search wave. We've been doing this new feature orientation right after our surprise townhall as a way to onboard the community and creators and talk to the team that actually built and designed and built the features and then take questions from the community. So we're gonna continue with that today. So quick rundown, we're gonna walk you through replays and a little bit about total attendee counts as well, and how the features work, some nitty gritty on like, how we actually built it and how we thought through what to release for version one. And then take some questions from you all. So in the meantime, if you have questions, feel free to send us those questions either back now, or just wait until we get to the q&a portion. So Steph, do you want to Yeah, take from the top about replays and I know we got a bunch of our team here and we'll have more folks coming up to the stage two.
Definitely, I'll jump into replace but you know what, I just occurred to me that often. No, we're up here in town hall all the time. And we've had a couple of these surprise town halls and orientations with Taylor and Molly, Daniel and Patty join us. But I kind of think they should all go around and say what, so that we get to their part, say what their contribution was sort of who they are because I think so many people in the community may not know who they are. That just sort of occurred to me as we're talking about all first dive into replay. We initially announced replays back in September as a way for listeners to experience the magic of libraries on clubhouse, but later and finally here. Oh, whoo, big round of applause. I know that I've talked to so many people that maybe can't make it to listen to 9am in London because you're in LA or maybe you live in Europe in Asia, but you really want lullaby club to sing you to sleep but a live session is actually the day or maybe you missed a session of late night jam because you were sleeping well. Now you can hear those conversations when you want with replays.
Amazed so yes, so I think the feature is going to be great for like I mentioned earlier for creators and users who just really have been looking forward to it. It's going to allow you to record rooms, save it to your profile, save it to your club, or as we talked about, download it and share it outside of clubhouse. So as Paul said, they are a nice way to experience live rooms, but just later. So replays are rolling out on iOS and Android today and I want to toss it over to Daniel I agree with Steffes idea. It'd be great if you gave us a little bit of an insight into what you tend to work on and then maybe talk us through how replays works.
Yeah, glad to see Yeah, my name is Daniel I'm on the iOS. And yeah. And when Yeah, so I was one of the few folks who was sort of helpful for Responsible building out replays on iOS as well as a couple folks down in the audience. So thanks to everyone for for that Yeah. And to kind of go through a little bit about how replays in the current iteration works. As with most things are all things on clubhouse rather, you know, sort of its creator first creators and controls in control of when replays are on for a room and when they choose to like you know, keep a room sort of off the record when you start a room you'll have a sort of switch in the composer as we call it. To decide whether or not replays will start on or off. For now, replays are only available in sort of open rooms, though we'll sort of evaluate changing that over time based on feedback from from you in the community. And so in the first iteration replays can be turned off sort of anytime during the conversation. So you know, say there's something that you know, you want to take off the record you can turn it off. However, once that happens, it will be fully deleted. So you won't have access to the part that was sort of replayed, was on when replays were on before let you turn it off. And another great thing that kind of call out from a creative standpoint here is that the creator of the room will own the content. So in addition to the like live in app replay, we're allowing the creator of the room to go to their their profile and be able to download directly the mp3 of that recording and then they can edit it and you know, sort of post it and share out wherever it is that they'd like to do. And last thing to kind of call out on this front is that you know there's always going to be an indicator in the room that replays are on so you always know sort of like what the status of the current room is. And whenever you join the stage, you'll you'll also be sort of notified kind of similar to how clips work as well now. Yeah. And so I think with that I'll kind of kick it over to Taylor maybe to talk a little bit about where these replays show up.
Hello,
Taylor, give us a little bit about you. Hello.
Super pumped to be here. We've been heads down working on this for a while and it's pretty exciting that we are turning it on, and scary but exciting. Let's see so I clubhouse I work on trust and safety. So all the user reporting and trying to make sure that the community is healthy. But I also helped work on replace a little bit. So select,
tattooed interject that Daniel and Taylor are two of the funniest people on our team.
Sorry.
You're setting us up for failure here. I know. But it's okay.
public failure Taylor.
Oh, that's fine. Luckily, it's recorded anyway. Um, so. So let's talk about replays. I got some some things to mention. One of them is once the conversation is ended in the replays being generated, it will actually appear on all of this diggers profiles. So if you go to Paul's profile for example, you'll see a bunch of live replays already from some recent rooms that clubhouse has hosted. And it'll also appear on club pages so club admins can remove the replays from their club pages and anyone can any speakers can remove the replays from their profiles as well. Let's see. Also, when you're playing a replay back, it'll look just like this. At least we hope it'll look just like this. We tried to record all of the things that go on in the room during the room so that we can actually accurately play it all back for you, which is pretty cool. The different part is that you'll actually see like a player at the bottom so you can play pause, skip, you can listen to the music faster, you can rewind, you can do all that stuff. Let's see. And the other the other detail I think that color Ron had mentioned was that we also have a cumulative count for the number of people who have listened to the replay, which is kind of an exciting change. So think like a few counts at YouTube or, or whatever. So you can see all the people who have listened to the replay before and get an idea for like, you know how popular it's been over time. And I knew I think you're gonna take over from here. Yes.
Oh, there will be more. We will talk to you, Taylor and Daniel. Okay. But hopefully that gives you a sense of how replays works at a high level. As we mentioned, we also have a blog post up we have a support FAQ up and our release notes that always go into more detail if you just want to see some of it in different formats and if you have questions, you can start sending us factional messages now or hold on to them until the q&a. But I wanted to get into a little bit more of the behind the scenes stuff that we always get asked about. So Patti, I wanted to see if you could talk to us a bit about maybe how we thought about scoping version one. And one thing that I'd love to actually hear from everybody is you know, as you're talking through some of this stuff, like what are some use cases or a use case that you're excited for with replace
on or before we jump to Patty, I just want to give a quick shout that you know we've talked about earlier. Some of the rooms that we went ahead and pre populated replays. And I tend to one here actually for everyone, which if you didn't catch Artie on our team is three rounds interview with Flexport CEO and global supply chain crisis. It was fantastic. So please go ahead. And listen to it not now. But after.
Oh, yeah, this is a great, this is a great episode of Good time show. I'm really excited about it. And actually one of the use cases that I was going to talk about later for for replays and maybe it's the most obvious use case, but it's a really great way to catch up on you know, the best shows the best from the clubs and traders that you really care about. I love listening to the good time show this week's episode is at like 10pm Pacific time. I have a young kid and so I'm you know, I've been asleep for an hour or something by 10pm but Sunday morning I got up I went on around I listened to this good temperture episodes replay. It was fantastic. I'm so excited about this feature for this exact use case. But going back to on his original question about scope, so yeah, so I'm Patti. I'm the product manager. I'm a product manager clubhouse, and I was the product manager for this feature. And I want to give a little bit of context for how we talked about scoping the first version of replays, replays, like, you know, you won't be surprised to learn there's a bunch we plan to do over time to make replays better and better and more useful and help people discover great replays. And so I thought it'd be useful to talk about kind of how we how we thought about this first versions. So one important principle here was thinking you know, replay rooms they're supposed to be you know, live rooms, but later so we want to replay rooms to feel as much like the live room as possible and try to maintain as much of that magic of the clubhouse room experience as we could. So one thing you'll notice when you're watching replays is we've kept you know PTR intact. So in a lot of rooms when people want to share, you know, a news article or you know, a photo or whatever, they update the profile photo, and then folks in the room can refresh and see the new profile photo. So we've kept that in place. So you can see in a replay room, there's something being talked about. And from a profile photo, you'll see that animate in the room similar for 10 links to so when someone updates a pin link you'll see an update right in line when it happened in the live room. The other really cool thing that I'm excited about is you know as soon as you start a room you know on club sec, the audience shuffle and right like you see, you see more speakers during the stage and you see the audience fill out and you see people you know coming and going from the room over time. And so we've we've kept that in replay so when you when you enter a room, it feels like you're sitting there and the crowds gathering and the speakers are joining the stage. It's a it's a really really nice experience. And and finally you know when you're in the audience, you can see who else is listening to the to the room with you, right so that's a really important part of, of being in remote courthouses. It's not just us speaking right now, but it's us in the room, right? It's that bigger feel and so we made sure to keep that intact. So that's, that's like one really important part of how we thought about the V one is maintaining that experience. A second thing to call out is replays are a really great way to catch up on the people in the clubs you care the most about on clubhouse. And so we made sure that in this first version, you can go to the profile of someone or to a club page and see the rooms you know, the most recent replays from that room and go back and see the replays they've done over time. And so you know, if there's club you really love for me like like the good time show like I was talking about, you can go to the good time show and see their past replays. In fact, you can see the the replay that's pinned right now on the good time show club page and if you're on the latest version of the app, same for profile, right so if I've spoken in a room that's replay like this one, you'll be able to go to my profile after this is over and go see that on my profile. And so that was really important part two. The third thing to talk about the first version that I want to hit on and you know Taylor mentioned above is control. So as root trader you're in control before you create a room you decide whether it's a replay room or not. If during the during the room, you decide you don't want it to be a replay room, you can always turn it off. And we also make sure that in the room when replays are on it's like it's very prominently displayed in the room that replays are on so everyone knows that it's replay room and people can listen to it later.
Another thing to note is you know after replay room is over the room trader can always delete the replay from clubhouse so you know if it's if it's content that didn't age well, or if actually replays over, you're not comfortable with it. You can always remove it from clubhouse and then the last thing to call out so if you're in the audience have replay, you have any concern about others seeing you in the audience, you can remove yourself from the audience of the replay room. And so we said that was one of the principal for the be one scope. We wanted to make sure that you know rooms or rooms felt, you know, live that later that they're, you know as good of an experience and as we retain as much of that feels alive as possible, that it's a great way to catch up with the people in clubs you care the most about and that and that you're in control. And then a quick test I take that view once again, I want to call it a few things that are coming soon. I'm really excited about so the first version and the best way to discover replays is going to the profiles and the club pages from the people in clubs you really care about. But we want to make sure that you don't miss the great replays that you know from clubs and people really care about. So one of the things we'll see coming soon is being able to discover replacing this in the hallway. Both from the clubs and people that you follow and some suggested replays as well. You'll be able to catch up with replays in search as well. So if there's a specific show that you want to make sure you didn't miss, and you can go and search for it. Okay, and then okay use cases so I'll try this one. So I mentioned one before, like, replays are a really great way to catch up on on a, you know, on, on rooms from clubs that you really care about or for people really care about. There's some other really great use cases that I that I'm excited about as well. So as a room creator replays are a really great way to share with your audience off the clubhouse, so if he has a great conversation on clubhouse, after it's over, you can grab a link to the replay and share it you know with your audience off of clubhouse and you know on Twitter or on Facebook or you know, wherever, wherever you your audiences. You can also download an mp3 and share it to your to your podcast or to wherever else your audience may be. So I think that's one really great use case for creators. Another really great use case I'm excited about is replays as a way to get to know people on campus and see what they're all about. So, like I mentioned, you can go to someone's profile and see that the replays they've done in the past that are that are on the profile that they spoken. So you can go there and listen to what they've said on clubhouse. And hear about the types of rooms that you're interested in. And so that's a great way to get to know people in in relatedly I'm really excited to be able to share.
is actually just gonna get one more little change. Blink one more egg. Just get a bad bad channel asking me Oh, the pin is a reef How do I know if I'm seeing a report
that you sound a little? I don't know if it's just me. You sound a little like
Oh, I'm just gonna say maybe it's a good transition, Molly and Robin but but I wanted to answer that first. Which Oh, can you depend is a real or event link or distinction because I don't want to tap the pin link to another
other folks. Can you give me my checklist stuff? Yeah.
Oh, no.
Okay, Steph, when you're back with us, we will continue in the meantime, I think what you're gonna say is Molly and I know Robin, you know has been intimately involved but isn't here right now. Like we'd love to hear more from your perspective just on like, you know what design principles we kept in mind for the v1 of this feature. And of course, one thing or one use case you might be excited to see.
Yeah, of course. Yeah. So for those who not introduce myself to I'm Molly, I'm a designer clubhouse and one of the two designers who worked on replays as Ana just mentioned, Robin, who is the other designer is actually getting off a plane right now and would otherwise be on stage now but deserves a huge shout out for all the work he did on designing the end to end replace experience. So I'm standing in for both of us. There so it's kind of to first answer your question about the principles. There were four key dimensions that were like really important for us to focus on when we were designing replays. How do you like just kind of covered a few of these and his super succinct answer, but I think they're all really important to underscore so I'm gonna like recap a few of them. The first is creator control. So we wanted to make it really easy for you to decide if this is a type of conversation that you'd want replayed or not. So when you go to start an open room, the option to turn the place off or keep it on by default, is like right there front and center when you start a room. The second is transparency when you're in a room. So right now you can see at the top of this room that replays are on. We always want to make it really really clear when you're in a room that's going to be replayable not knowing that like you know you might speak a little bit differently if you know this is going to be recorded and people can listen to this in the future versus just a casual conversation that's like so called off the record. The third thing is that we wanted to make the playback experience feel live, but later you'll probably hear us say this again and again. And so this means that the room looks pretty familiar to listening to a live room with a couple key differences. One will obviously be the player controls on the bottom so you can pause, you can go back you can skip to the next speaker, which we'll talk about in a sec. And also just kind of you know, understand if this is a room when it happens, how many people have listened to it in total, you get basically that started creator analytics there. But otherwise it kind of acts the same you get the same pin link experience, you get the same room layouts. It should feel really familiar to the normal clubhouse experience. And then fourth, and I promise this in my last one. Making sharing really easy was really important to us. So the same way that you share a link to a room you can also share a link to a replay and this will deep link into the app into the replay directly if people have clubhouse downloaded, or open up a web page where anyone who doesn't have clubhouse can easily download the app, jump in and listen to the replay. So that's like the four key design principles. As for a way I'm excited about seeing replays used, my answer is actually less about the use case for craters, which I'm like a million different ones that I'm excited about. But more of this cool thing that I'm really excited about and it's that skip to next speaker or as I mentioned before, the thinking next button was we're affectionately
let's point
it might not stick but we'll try so yeah Robin did this like amazing job designing a replay playback experience that's that is also kind of hard to say. So maybe that's like a replay back or something that captures some really interesting things that I think are compelling and pretty unique to clubhouse. So one thing for example is that like most podcasts, listening experiences, allow you to just you know, hit a button to jump ahead 30 seconds. But in clubhouse we have this unique thing where we know when one person stops talking and another person start talking, and that's something that we call Speaker transitions, technically and boringly. So you know, and I, of course, love this example when Paul or maybe in this case, Patty goes on like a really long winded answer, which like definitely never happens. Or if I'm actually just saying all the same stuff Patti just said instead of hitting a button that says 30 seconds skip forward, you can hit the skip to next speaker button. Where you will see the avatar of the person who is the next speaker below it. So you get a sense of like, okay, well, I'm done listening to this person who's the next person and it really changes the way that you kind of navigate through the room and it's a really simple change, but it's kind of unique to club in some way that I think is really exciting. So that's, that's what I guess
this is my favorite kind of it's not it's not an Easter egg, but it's my favorite part of the implementation we have that is unique. So I'm very excited about it plus 100.
So it sounds like Molly's use cases basically when people re listen to this room, they can skip by my No.
Let's just say Patti took one for the team to demonstrate the utility of the next speaker feature. So thank you, Patty, and thank you all. Okay, so let's see wanted to spend a couple more minutes before we kind of get into q&a. Daniel Taylor others for folks who love hearing the behind the scenes stuff. Is there any kind of you know, small intricacy or challenge that you guys had in building the feature either from a UX front end back in perspective that you think would be, you know, interesting for folks who are excited about learning more thinking more about that? I know we do the technically speaking rooms occasionally, but I think you know, this is a nice potential small window into all the work as well.
Yeah, I guess I kind of kick things off on the front end sort of side on the client. I think the the biggest challenge, at least for me was just trying to like conceptually, think about, you know, time now being a thing that moves both forwards and backwards within the room. So you know, just in live rooms, you know, one of the benefits from a engineering standpoint about the way how clubhouse pre replays worked was that you were always moving forward, right? You know, you're always catching back up to live. And the audio was always streaming in and events that happens where, you know, sort of rendered on the screen. When someone joined or became a speaker, etc. And then that was that was it, it was all ephemeral, right? But now we have the ability to rewind 15 seconds and jump back or seek forwards or even I don't think anyone's actually mentioned one of the features I'm sure people will be excited about which is listening at a different rate than what x you'll be able to listen at 1.5x or 2x, and being able to render all of the live metadata that you're used to seeing in a regular clubhouse room. But responding to sort of the media as you scrub forward and backwards was definitely quite the performance. Challenge. And that, you know, I think there's probably still some work for us to do there. I don't know. David, did you have any any thoughts you wanted to add on sort of the client sort of front end side of things?
Yeah, sure. I think like Daniel said, I think the way that we handle like state changes in the replay room was a super fun problem to solve. I think in addition to the kind of, you know, time travel approach that Daniels are describing, I really like how we actually deliver the bits in the room that change, sort of taking some inspiration from like a video file that has keyframes that basically let you seek to a certain point, and then sort of apply a bunch of changes from there. So you can imagine in a room that's, you know, several hours long, the amount of data that's like flowing back and forth in that room is actually really, really expensive. So if you skip say an hour in, we have a way to basically apply the state of the world at that point, and then sort of pick up with the changes from there. So I think that was super fun to work on. just reminded me what what a blast it is to work with this team to solve. You know, fun problems like this one.
David what do you do at clubhouse for folks who don't know you?
Yeah, sorry. I forgot to introduce myself. Yeah, I work on the Android app.
And also helping out with all of these features and shipping. Okay, amazing. Taylor, any I know you you were heavily involved in the backend work for this one. Do you have a like a small intricacy or challenge or something behind the scenes to talk about there? Or of course, Michelle, I know you're on stage as well.
I do. I think so. So one of the things that was a big challenge for this project. We had like a lot of engineers for the size of our team working on this at the same time. So we had to parallelize across the team to make sure that we could all work as fast as we could to get this done. And so I had the pleasure of creating like the initial demo API that the client engineers had to use to to actually start building the client features to make replay playback work. And so that meant two things. One is I chose the first room that Daniel and the others got tortured with at the beginning. So I think there were listening to Stephen on who go back and forth at the beginning of a replay like over and over and over again. As I say to
you, you're saying Howdy,
howdy, howdy, I'm knew exactly,
just over and over again, because you have to debug and like, fix all those crazy issues. And then I was also torturing Michelle. separately because we, what Dave was talking about the way that the data is stored, we call it in a chomped format. So there we have chunks of the data. And so I kept saying chunks over and over again. And Michelle was like, This is the worst thing that's ever happened. Why are we calling these chunks Can we call it something else? But I don't know. Michelle, what's that? What's a better word than chunk?
I think we're far past that point now. Hearing Taylor singing Johnson, in all of our there's so many tests rooms with Taylor's musical stylings. Yes.
It was like all the all the features right we have like pin links and when you when you invite people on stage and all the positions of everyone in the audience is changing, like, generate all these test cases. So So I kept singing in the videos and I think everybody appreciated it. That was I'm not gonna do it now. Maybe maybe we can do that in
a follow up room. Okay.
Michelle, I don't know if you want to add anything to that. But for folks who don't know you What do you work on a clubhouse and any anecdote as far as working on this feature?
Yeah. I work on the back end team. I called us and I think you're in a little bit to this awesome feature. Today, folks, we've covered it like this is probably the most ambitious feature we worked on with the most number of engineers at any given time in terms of people that are in engineering as well. So I think it was part of this was just seeing the machine execute. Kudos to the team.
Ask a silly question, Michelle. Yeah. What does it mean to work on the back end team for anyone in the audience who doesn't maybe work in
tech? And yeah, so
the backend side of things is it's basically the logic that is the clubhouse brain. So you know, the client or the app will send a message to our server, and it'll be like, Hey, can I join this room and the server does all the logic stuff and connects you to the audio. So we're kind of responsible for that. And our awesome client teams focused on making that information usable and accessible and making the experience magical. So, on the backhand side, we're kind of more logic focused and less aesthetic and creative, I would say,
equally important.
Magical. Magic.
Should we get to some questions? Where
do we leave?
We absolutely.
Watch Indian folk stuff, actually, I think ping mobile earlier but I think just now so I want to give it to her just to introduce yourself real quick. And then I will start inviting folks up on stage that have raised their hands for questions. And if you haven't yet had rescues open, so feel free to raise your hand and Steph has also been collecting some backchannel questions. So we'll try to get to as many of those as possible. moquegua Hey
everyone, I'm availa I work on Android with damage and also the new features like replay
just like you all have already talked enough so enter all the questions.
A woman a few, but usually very important since do we want to like I said, I can maybe kick off with some of the back channels. I know, Elijah, who actually was one of the people who did back to me versus him. But I think, I think just some basic things. One thing I did want to touch on again, is maybe the total attendee counts. We didn't really kind of belabor that. But anyone who's updated their app right now should actually see on the top of the room, you can see the total number of people who have been in the room which I think is a really like I said really important thing for creators and also just reflect sort of this concept of, you know, a live but then also live but later, total listens. On what he said, I'm going to defer to you do should we go over total attendee counts in more detail or should we just
hit the questions? Yes, let me do a quick correction.
I think on the total listener count is only viewable by the speakers until you have a replay available. So hopefully it kind of picks up some of that real time pressure when you're running a live conversation. But once you have a replay, the number of people that have kind of been through that room all together will be visible to everyone, including the audience. So good flag on Patty's part, actually. And I think with that yeah, why don't we just go ahead into questions. I know we have a few folks on stage. You said Elijah had of action a question. I brought Elijah up as well. Hello, Elijah.
Hey, y'all, so I I'm happy to see it on my bio. Wink wink and thank you for that. I feel like I'm part of the clubhouse of the future, even if just 24 hours into the future. So now, I'm assuming now actually, from the conversation that it's not like a voice document. It's a video because that was my question, whether it's it's like a video download like a video Correct?
That's a great question. It is not a it is not a video. It is a it is an event stream of the whole room so so it looks like video when you play it that kind of but but it just looks like like this. So if you're if you're inside the app, it looks basically just like a regular Live app.
So when it downloads what would it download as into my phone or device?
I totally so so if you're creating a room and you host a replay room, you can download the audio as just an audio file after the minutes. But what actually serve it when we serve it to two people to actually watch the replay back we serve it in a combination of audio and then what he was talking about which I was talking about with the trunk, sort of like data stream format we talked about. So there's like a, like a variety of crazy information that we have to send down to recreate kind of everything that happens in the room. So it's like more of an interactive format for the room rather than a video.
So what's it like?
Just a PB piggyback on that, like, what that lets you do is you know, you can actually scroll through the room see the speakers follow the speakers. If they're pinned links, you can navigate to those links. So as opposed to a video which you know, you would just be able to, you know, say like clips, we create those kind of quick clips and we can show you visually who's speaking, but you can't tap on any of those people or like scroll or scrub so that's what's gonna be really great about replays like inap is that it really does feel like the live room just later. tagline
are there. So if I were to do so, so like, if I wanted to share it to YouTube, it wouldn't be in this format. And what are the guidelines as far as sharing it on other? I mean, like, I guess, you know, with respect to the content, I would own the content like you said, but then what would it look like on YouTube? Have you guys posted any of these on YouTube or anything?
Like that? Yeah, that's
that's a great question.
I think. No, no, I think the current the current version, we don't have a video export sort of for YouTube. I think that's definitely something we would love to like hear more. About, you know, what use cases people have and you know, potentially investigate, sporting that in the future. But for now you have the mp3 file and so you can sort of create you know, there are a lot of creative tools out there where you can take that that raw audio and edit it if you like and you know, put slap some sort of graphics on it and upload to YouTube.
And then also, go ahead
you can you can also screen record the playback if you wanted to put it on YouTube so that that would be a way to take that now if you want to do that with
the current feature set.
But maybe let's touch on the second part of his question because I think even that ability to screen record and post elsewhere sort of goes back to this answer around IP potty I don't know if you want to hit that
Yeah, so I think are the center position on this is that the room creator owns the room and owns the content? So if you're the room creator Yeah, you're welcome to download the mp3 and share it off site or, you know, kind of do what you would do today with a recorded room as a room creator.
Totally. And then you know, we will have the kind of opt in or permissions when anybody's coming up as a speaker. So, you you would have already kind of given permission for the room. Great or to be able to kind of download and use this as part of coming up and speaking in the conversation.
Yeah, that's a really good point. So one thing you'll see at the top of replay rooms is you'll see that they're indicated as replay on right under the title. And so that's always an indicator that everyone in the room the speakers in the audience or anyone who's coming up to be a speaker can always know that the replay is wrong so they're on notice.
Perfect life a great questions actually really loved the video versus audio question and I'm sure we'll be thinking about this for future versions as well.
Yeah, I was feeling stupid. I was like, Maybe I'm not. Okay, thank you.
Alright, Greg, do you have anything to add on to this question, or should we go ahead with more?
No, let's keep going.
Perfect. Lindsay Hey,
thanks. for having me. I've got the first one is, as you know, I did a couple of replay tests for you guys last week, and I've updated the app and I can't see this or any of the last weeks on my profile. So is that a case of maybe I need to delete the app once I'm out of this room
have you so just to just like, make sure I'm on the same page like we we did test a bunch of replays, like, you know, our nonpublic real last week, but we kind of did clear that and we only have a small number of rooms that we made available on launch today.
But oh available,
though, I'm not seeing any including this this room right this second, which obviously if I tapped on Elijah's I could see his and he pulled up at the same time as me. But yes, none of the ones that were under the other clubs from last week I was more expecting obviously this one right this second as well say
so affiliate for this one, just the second runes, like if you're a speaker, and they don't appear in your profile until the replay is available, and replays aren't available until the room is over. Right? So so that's probably why you're not seeing this room. But the previous room, I don't know, Taylor, if you had an answer for that.
Yeah. That I was just gonna add that. So basically, what happens is we're sort of like compiling everything that goes on in the room during the real and then at the end, we throw some computers off and they do a bunch of calculations and like, come up with all of that packaged up replay goodness that we talked about. So that takes a little bit of work. So So I think right now it takes between like, two to four minutes or something like that after the room has ended for the replay to become available, and that's when it'll be on the profile. We also have a minimum amount of time that you have to speak in a room before you show up so I don't know what the number is that we landed at right? Now. But there's basically a number that we may tweak on like the minimum time that you have to talk with before the replay on your profile when it's generated. That makes sense.
Oh, yeah, that makes total sense. That's also really interesting tonight, in terms of people that are speaking in rooms and running rooms for quite a long amount of time. Do they have an expiration date on how long they will be at a club or on your profile for and is there a maximum amount of hours that you can have available as replay?
No, so you can have as many replays on your profile as you want. And they don't expire at any point in time, but you can go and remove replays from your profile whenever you want. So if you want to keep only the the hottest, freshest, newest content on there, you can remove old stuff. Or if you just want to keep it over time Greatest Hits content going back into time when your profile, you can do that as well, or you can decide to leave it all it's up to you.
That's awesome. That's actually really useful. I don't suppose maybe in feet roles, you'll have them under months or anything like that, which will make it easier for someone to potentially search for is that part of the rollout Do you think or is that just asking too much?
That's a great idea. So there'll be listed for the first version in reverse chronological order so your most recent replays first. So you can scroll back in time and then there's you know, there's there's a date on them so you can see how old they are. But I love the idea of making that more discoverable and breaking it into sections over time. The other thing that's not available initially today but it's coming soon. Search for replays as well. So if you miss a room and you know which one you're looking for, you'll be able to use our new nifty search features to go and find that room.
That's amazing curling just off quick off the back of that will emojis be searchable within that as well? If they're in the room title for example,
I think
so. Yes. If anybody has a theme search that we have right now, replace or live.
That's right. Very curious if you have a use case in mind already or just asking for fun.
Just asking
for fun at the moment but it's something that I do like with a lot of people talking about emojis because they all searchable in their room titles. So if they know that their search volume replays as well, that's just an added bonus for using them. So thank you very much. Great answer. Thanks.
Thank you Lindsay. Great questions. I really like the question around like, how are we you know, in the future going to allow people to organize content whether it's on their clubs or on their profiles? I think that's something really interesting to think about. So I'm sure
I'm getting a related question to it. Lindsey sort of started to to pull it the thread which is I'm getting a lot of questions about channel about you know, our old rooms going to be listed on profiles as replays, or is it just from this point sort of going forward other than the select ones that we got from creators? And like I said, I think we all know the answer, but just to put a finer point, because I got several people asking that same question.
Yeah, so it's just from this point going forward. So when room creators create a room, they can decide to have replays on or off.
Yep, just starting
to. Yep. And I think that that kind of goes nicely with the fact that we've now built in all the permissioning and you'll get notified of that, as far as coming on stage when replays are on so I think that's a strong reason, at least in my mind as well.
Yeah. In case there's confusion there, there are a handful of replay rooms that are available starting today. As we kind of mentioned at the beginning, we had asked a few creators to text and we wanted to have some example replay rooms up for launch day. So that's the reason why there are a few already live Yeah, it's
totally interested. Come up a minute ago mentioned there was one on their profile. If you want to go to the clubhouse HQ club by tapping the club title at the top of this room, you can see actually a recent town hall and same on my profile and pulse profile and stuff profile. So you will discover a few easter eggs in the form of replays in the app right now. But hopefully as more and more folks start using it today, you'll start to see more of them pop up that you can test or honestly just spin up a room and test out yourself. Okay, navy.
Hey, hot.
Super excited. Thank you all so much for the hard work and putting this out. This is amazing. I just My question is about the recording for is it just if you're a speaker, so anytime that you're on stage and you speak for a certain amount of time, that you will be included in that replay. Or is it just if you're a moderator in a room that it will show up in your profile? I just was a little confused about whether it's any room that I come up on stage, if I'm not a moderator facilitating the conversation, whether that conversation would still show up on my profile under replays.
Yeah, so the Yeah, so so
just to clarify the the sort of like in in room experience. So if you guys come back and watch this replay again, you'll be able to see everybody who's spoken regardless of how long they were speaking for in this room. Inside the replay when you're actually watching it back, but we had a separate calculation for like whether we should actually put it on your profile and that's where we have that minimum amount of time so so I think it's it's something less than 30 seconds if you've spoken in in room certain amount of time, then it will be added to that replay section on your on your profile. And if you didn't speak that long, or if you just came up and we're muted the whole time then it won't be on your profile. That makes
sense. Ah, gotcha. Okay. So anytime that you're a speaker, not just when you're a moderator on the stage. Okay, got it. Awesome. Thank you. So I'm really excited about this and so grateful to have a
profile so thank you thanks. Maybe as always, all right. Hey, do you have questions? Next? No, I'm,
I think the only thing I would add to that is I because I talk too much in too many rooms because I spend too much time on this app. Okay, and I think the ability to quickly remove replies if you decide you'd rather have something at the top of your profile is like one of the best features so just giving everybody that control of this is what I want on my profile. Obviously, this is the land of ptr and fun bios and like bio storytelling. So I like that the team leaned in aspect of giving them control and like you can already imagine all kinds of playful things people are gonna be able to do with replays as it relates to what shows up on
their profile. Not a question, just a general statement.
I love that statement. I agree. I think that's one of the fun things here. Well, and you're up next, we'd love to hear if you have a question
about hey guys, I have a couple. You probably have actually because I came in late but please bear with me. So my first question is when it comes to during the replays and is on your profile, will it be a certain number of replays or do we have to have a search storage or anything like that, or do we need to download it immediately?
I think I answered this question a couple of minutes ago, but the short version is there's no limit on the number of replays on your profile. Kind of all of them will be available there. And you'll be able to download them whenever you want. If you're the room creator, you can download the audio file if you want.
Awesome insert
the link itself like once we download it, can we take the link it now put it on our BIOS or we just need to get that link and pin it at the top.
So replays will appear on your will be on your profile as a speaker or as the room creator after the rooms over so uh no need to pin something to your bio. I don't think unless there's a use case then I'm missing
are we did we get your question correctly, Andy or was or something else we didn't quite understand.
Oh, no, it's it's undisputed. So with storage, you have unlimited storage when it comes to the links because I was thinking about you know how you put ads in your BIOS from later you want that one particular replay on there till we put it on
that got it? Well, so there's no I don't think there's a way to just select a specific replay on your profile to pin it at the top of your profile. Correct me if I'm wrong, Patti future versions we would love to have something like that right now it is just in reverse chronological. So the most recent replayed, that would show up on your profile will be at the top.
Yeah, that's right. But we've totally talked about for a future version letting people pan you know, their highlighted replays or you know, or whatever, it's at the top of their profile. So that's definitely something we're thinking about. A workaround as you're mentioning could be you could get the link to the replay room and put it in your bio if you want. You can always get a link to replay room directly from the room itself. So open the room, open the replay, grab the link and copy it.
That's a great question. I think that's going to be a question a lot of people have. So thank you very much, Andy. Thanks, guys.
I'm on here Monday through Friday. So why can I leave but this is right thank you guys. Have a great day.
Perfect. Thanks, Danny.
All right, we'll take these two more. And Daniel, I think you have a hard stop coming up in three minutes or so. And for anybody else I know we'll try to get folks out on time.
Baba
Do you have a quick question for us about replace?
Oh, no, I don't really it's related to replace. I'm not sure where it's appropriate. I've just joined a few minutes ago. My question is really around trust and safety. It's actually quite a serious question. And if this is around replays and operational issues, I'm happy to yield the floor. If you don't want to take the question.
Yeah, I think we want to keep this to be more around replays as far as just a new orientation and if it's a trust gap question really to replace? Absolutely. If it's kind of a more general trust and safety question, I guess what I would ask is maybe you can send me a back channel message if you haven't already contact us or our trust and safety team or do both. And I'll make sure that we get you a answer to the question
that we all send. I'll send you a back channel question because the question has been raised numerous times I say numeral Okay, for several months. I'll send you a back channel. And we'll take it from there. And I'll do that. Nice.
Thank you very much.
All right. We're gonna try to squeeze in one more question to G. Hopefully you pronounce that right.
Yes, you did. So awesome. Team. Blog house. My question is getting replaced. Is it possible to share in place outside, sorry, outside of the app so that people maybe they don't have the app like can experience it, for example, on the web, or on the mobile web? And if not a considering this? I know some new social apps allow non users to kind of play replays. Thank you.
So we definitely encourage you to share your replays, links theory plays wide and far. And as we mentioned, well, I said actually addressing the first part so for now the first version, you can omit some replays within the clubhouse app, you know to listen to them properly within the app, so you can't listen on clubhouse.com for example, for now, and definitely something we may explore in the future but but not for the first version. And you can though you can download an audio file if you're the room creator and share that out that side. Of clubhouse if you want. So that's that's definitely an option. But to look to have a full room experience, where you can see PTR and see the pen link and see everyone in the audience. You have to download the app to do that.
