This is wild!

Not a popular opinion, but I have a feeling that this is going to quickly go from your privacy is our responsibility to gatekeeping is virtuous, so we won’t let you do that.

Really curious to know. Is it because of the conversational tone or the click-baity suspense?

The article is almost half done before it begins to explain the basic mechanics of the service, and I still didn't really get it until I read elsewhere. If it was easy for anyone to sign up and/or it had been around for a while, that might be OK, but given that it's not, a sentence or two to tell the reader WTF you're writing about would be helpful.

TechCrunch explains it succinctly in the second paragraph: "The most buzzy of these startups is Clubhouse, an audio-based social network where people can spontaneously jump into voice chat rooms together. You see the unlabeled rooms of all the people you follow, and you can join to talk or just listen along, milling around to find what interests you."

Hey! I wrote this article. There is literally a description of the basic mechanics of the app starting at word 48 of the piece. I have no clue how you missed this!

> "After we exchanged pleasantries, Paul explained how the app works. There’s one global “room,” and when you join you start off on mute, but anyone can unmute themselves. When you open the app, it sends push notifications to everyone on the app, so they can join you and chat if they’re free."

I'm curious why this didn't work for you and what you would have wanted instead?

Someone who is going to such lengths to save their employees should at least be given the benefit of doubt.

He did something similar 7 years ago, so I don’t think he has some ulterior motive with all this or a grand plan. IDK, Seems like a great guy to me.

Fantastic! People never go out of business, but businesses do, take care of people not some fictitious entity.

I don’t think they do.

The response clearly is reasonable, but no reasonable person would say that on someone’s face. So I don’t think Marta _moreno really knew about Walter

All of the following in one website or tool/sw:

1/ Interactive tutorials and quiz format like brilliant.org

2/ A Wikipedia like comprehensive wiki embeded with course website for all kinds of reference.

3/ An online community — could be a piazza/forum.

4/ A github like service integrated with course site specifically for that course where students can submit their projects and be evaluated by other forum members/mentors etc.

Isn’t the primary intent of having an offline place to cut off the distraction and to make it feel like a retreat? How can that be accomplished online?

When you stop using Facebook, it makes the quality of your life better.

This is terrifying. Does anybody know of any alternative that would work well in long-term? Asking for a relative who just had a mild heart attack.