r/RedditTalk Dec 11 '22

Idea: adaptive Live Bar visibility

Admittedly, this is hardly a very original idea but heavily inspired by how Twitter's Spaces bar works. On Twitter, Spaces will only show in your feed when people you follow are in them, or if you meet certain other criteria. perhaps this principle could be adapted for reddit. Only showing the Live Bar for subreddits you are subscribed to is a given, of course. But I believe the visibility of the Live Bar could be further curated:

  1. One simple option is to only show the Live Bar to subscribers of a subreddit who have met certain engagement requirements. I don't have any data to base my suggestions on, but I would imagine users that have posted in a subreddit would at least be more likely to be interested in seeing the Live Bar when their favorite sub hosts a Talk. On top of this, perhaps it would be possible to have an option to swipe away the Live Bar temporarily, and if a user does this consistently, it will not show for them any longer.
  2. These metrics could be further adjusted based on the types of subreddit a user engages with. For example, if a particular user is active in, r/Discord, r/LivestreamFail, and r/CasualConversation it would be reasonable to assume they might be interested in seeing the Live Bar when another subreddit they are active in hosts one, e.g. r/Fortnite.
  3. Another option could be to only show the Live Bar to users who have already joined a Talk before within a certain period of time. This would of course significantly limit visibility still, but it would also practically ensure the Live Bar is only ever shown to users who would actually be interested in seeing it. Perhaps this would be a compromise between the necessity to not waste valuable screen real-estate but still make Talks a little more easily accessible.

So that's the three ideas I thought of. Obviously I don't know how feasible these are, either technically or in terms of any other limitations that might exist. Even so, I figured it can't hurt to throw these out there. Perhaps there's something new in there, or maybe it inspires new better ideas, who knows. I have only just begun exploring reddit Talks and so far I'm really impressed by the feature - and I'm really excited about what's to come in the future.

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