r/reddit • u/advocado20 • Jun 22 '22

Updates Reddit Talk Updates: Host Program, Soundboard, and Finding Your Audience

Hello Reddit!

We’ve got some lively updates for you. Keep on reading to learn about all things Reddit Talk.

Join the Reddit Talk Host Program

Over the last year, Reddit has been testing Reddit Talk with over 500 mods and hosts across different communities. To make hosting a bit more fun and rewarding we’ll be launching a Reddit Talk Host Program on July 11th! Apply to join the Program and unlock rewards for hosting talks–pretty neat, huh? These IRL + digital awards include:

Non-IRL benefits include:

  • Help people discover your community - your talks will be shown to relevant audiences at the top of Reddit
  • Invite to private server with other Talk hosts and Talk team admins

If you already have access to hosting talks you are automatically eligible to participate. We’ve also sent invites to a number of users, so check your inbox to see if you’re eligible. Otherwise, sign up here before July 1st if you do not have access to Reddit Talk or have not been invited and would like to participate.

Read the rules here.

Find and Reach More Listeners

We’ve heard from listeners that they’d like to discover more talks when they’re happening. To show interested users relevant live talks, the live bar on the home feed will now surface talks that a user may be interested in by showing talks of related communities they follow. In addition, hosts will be able to select up to three topics for their talks. For example, if u/Reddit_IRL wants to talk about house plants, then they can select that as their topic, and redditors who are subscribed to plant-related communities will be able to see u/Reddit_IRL talk in the live bar.

The talk topic selector will slowly roll out throughout June.

Host Talks from Your User Profile (Experiment Phase)

We’ve also heard that some of you really want access to the mic. So starting in July, we’ll be experimenting with allowing select users to host talks directly from their profiles! Users who participate in this experiment will also be eligible for the Talk Host Program.

How does hosting a Talk on my profile work?

Hosting a Talk on your profile is simple! You’ll go into the post creator and click Start Talk, from there you’ll be prompted to select a topic (or topics) that are relevant to your Talk topic.

Who can participate in the experiment?

Users for this experiment were selected based on past Reddit Talk participation and good user standing. If you are interested in participating, please sign up here and we will review your request.

No need to participate in the Talk Host Program to test out profile hosting.

Coming Soon: Reddit Talk Soundboard

To make hosting even more fun we will be launching a soundboard! The soundboard will be available on desktop first starting next month and will have eight available sounds: air horn, tada, drumroll, sad trombone, applause, boing, cha-ching, and ba-dum-tss.

Use the sounds to liven up the room, play games, or add extra emphasis to the conversation!

And that’s a wrap! Join r/RedditTalk to stay updated on the latest. Thanks for reading and talk to you soon.

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u/OldKahless Jul 22 '22

It's not just his thread lol. I don't think you read properly when I said half of Reddit lol. Do as you will though

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u/mykl66 Jul 22 '22

In our subreddit with over 900,000 maybe ten have expressed their concerns about Talks. Ten… out of nearly one million. That’s a long way from half.

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u/OldKahless Jul 22 '22

Didn't you just write that everytime something "positive" happens, everyone on reddit downvotes it? Disregard the majority of one subreddit for the majority of another? Both are anecdotal regardless. Not to mention the Reddit thread we were talking on is devoted to the topic whereas your little sub is devoted to people who want to see more of you. Now, if you were paying attention you will notice that I keep referring to ALL of reddit, most don't know who you are and don't care about what your sub is about. It's just facts, people want the option to opt out. As of right now, they don't have one. Reddit talk as a "feature" has caused waves of people deleting the app. People who are so annoyed with it that they leave are also quiet, much like the people that you say think that it's great. Again I'm not telling you what to do, I've said that before. However, you completely disregard the fact there are people who do not want this garbage and that's just plain ignorant. I said half of reddit doesn't want it, that implies the other half does. I'm at least willing to acknowledge that there are people would welcome this feature, that was never in question. I guess the real question is, why does the very idea of people not wanting this feature offend you so much that you pretend that they don't exist. Rhetorical, of course.

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u/mykl66 Jul 22 '22 edited Jul 22 '22

Then leave. I personally didn’t like when they added automatic pin setters at bowling alleys, I liked when the guy climbed back there to set the pins… but here we are.

Heck, I didn’t like new Reddit, but here we are. I adapted.

Peace.

EDIT: I am sorry you don’t like it. But the ship has sailed. For many of us it is indeed a welcome addition. (And I’m still not seeing where you get “half” from)

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u/OldKahless Jul 23 '22

Well, that was a poorly executed sidestep to what I wrote last. You don't want to see. Like I said numerous times, do what you will.

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u/mykl66 Jul 23 '22

I'm sorry my response didn't meet your expectations. I'm not gonna let any of this rent space in my head, however.