Clubhouse 12+

I enjoy CH a lot however I think it is very unfair that a lot of accounts were suspended especially towards the end of 2021 beginning 2022 (Accounts with over 5000 followers) Accounts that were reported Oftenly during heated discussions about issues that aren’t normally discussed in our African communities, Issues like, sexuality, gender equality and womens right.

Some of the people that lost their accounts went through the process of writing and trying to resolve and get their accounts back. After their initial contact with CH about the suspension, all other messages went on answered because CH has a system that marks your direct messages to the suspension team as “Read” after an initial response. So you can send 5 more new messages explaining further and no one will ever get back to you.

I think CH should take time to fix rethink this and come up with a solution. So many people that didn’t even know some of the rules also lost accounts and CH never gave them second chances.

Anyways to those on there continue to enjoy and don’t get yourself suspended by engaging in certain discussions especially in the African community hallway clubs.

Clubhouse unfortunately destroyed itself very quickly by lacking innovation to compete with the likes of Twitter and other platforms. The main service that Clubhouse provides became a feature on other platforms that already host millions of users - the point here being that there is no need for the “real discussions in virtual rooms” concept to be an entire service provided by an app, but rather one of many features. After numerous updates it just felt like the platform was becoming more regulated and limited, rather than expansive.

Secondly, their account recovery is abysmal. You sign up with a phone number (especially in the first year anyway), and consequently, if you lose access to your phone number, you lose your account. I can’t believe they didn’t think to include more than one option for account access and recovery. Again, I’d assume millions of users lost access and just abandoned the platform all together.

Clubhouse now stands as a key failure learning for other companies that release platforms in the future. I hope their team come back with a bang, as they had a one-in-a-million chance to become one of the best platforms out there (with some of the most impressive marketing I’ve ever seen), yet didn’t follow through.

I enjoy being on the app however when in a large group (1k plus) only the people on the stage can speak however in certain conversations, the stage is not balanced enough for the conversation e.g. 90% men and 10% women during a gender discussion. The moderator gets all the controls which j fair enough, but I strongly feel there should be a chat box and a reaction tab so that the rest of the people can express themselves. This is so important because for example the 90% men on the stage (or the administrator a man) blocked everyone from raising their hand which meant no one else could have a say except the people specifically selected to be on the stage (1 woman). I’m just saying they need a text/ chat box for the rest of the listeners, the same way Zoom does.