You wouldn't believe how many people you're leaving out by expecting anyone to sit in front of a screen and read and write text comments. Even if you can read and type fast, a lot of people don't care to sit on forums and squint at their screen, typing out their ideas on little iphone keyboards.
The friction to hearing and expressing ideas is way lower via audio chat. It's just a different population than everyone here, content to read text and compose replies.
I also don't know why you brought in "important discussions" - while I had a great 3 hour conversation last night on how to resolve disputes without authorities, I joined a room just because I saw some friends there playing "never have I ever", I didn't go seeking out an important discussion but I had one anyway, that's what gets people talking about their positive experience - the spontaneity and unexpected outcomes of it.
> expecting anyone to sit in front of a screen and read and write text comments
I didn't say anything about how that text is written or read. Remember that I started this thread by talking about how blind people can use Clubhouse with their screen reader. So I encourage a variety of input and output methods -- keyboards of all kinds, speech recognition supplemented by whatever methods we can come up with to edit the dictated text, screens, text-to-speech output, etc.
The friction to hearing and expressing ideas is way lower via audio chat. It's just a different population than everyone here, content to read text and compose replies.
I also don't know why you brought in "important discussions" - while I had a great 3 hour conversation last night on how to resolve disputes without authorities, I joined a room just because I saw some friends there playing "never have I ever", I didn't go seeking out an important discussion but I had one anyway, that's what gets people talking about their positive experience - the spontaneity and unexpected outcomes of it.