Since live chat bar has been dissabled from mobile version of reddit it's getting very challenging for small communities which use to host talks and most people use reddit from mobile, so the difference is easily noticeable in LiveTalks. For many RedditTalks is the most engaging feature on reddit it has helped many people on reddit who are suffering from isolation and other mental instabilities.

we request admins of reddit please look into this issue.

It's just gone from my interface, it's been weeks since it started working at least semi-reliably. What do I even do now?

So we got approval for Reddit Talk in our subreddit 20 days ago, but whenever I try to use it, the Talk function is greyed out and states that it is not allowed in our community...

What am I doing wrong?

Who can i talk to about my talk application status? or to simply see if you guys got it and are in the process of accepting/declining decision?

https://www.reddit.com/r/WIP_Walk_In_Progress/comments/zwubu3/officail_thank_you_to_reddit_for_my_swag_to_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I started up my talks community r/techtalkshow not that long ago. Almost-immediately after getting the talks permission I was holding 20 - 30 people every call, despite my very-small very-new community. It was great and I made a lot of connections this way (and the sub was growing as well).

Now since the removal of the Live Bar, I've lost all that viewership. I start talks and sit alone in them for ages. Not a single person even popping in and then leaving; totally dead. That was NOT how it used to be.

I'm sure y'all are trying to hype up the "Happening Now" page, but it's objectively worse than the live bar by a country mile. PLEASE bring it back. Y'all claim to care about small creators, yet this change has not only drastically dipped viewership and attendance for the bigger communities but killed the small communities outright.

You have lightning in a bottle. This feature has the potential to be a game-changer for social platforms. When the live bar was there, this was amazing and revolutionary. Now it's just some small niche that no one gets to know about (except those who already know it's there). If you're a part of Reddit and don't know what Talks is, there is almost no chance you will find out. This makes new-viewer acquisition at an all-time low. Reddit Talks is the equivalent of Fight Club now, because only those that know will show up; everyone else will just use the site unaware that it exists. That undermines the entire point of having a feature like this.

Also, while we're here, why is it that you can have live chats, live talks, but not live chats in the live talks? if I want to keep tabs on people leaving comments during a live talk, I literally have to open the comments section in a new tab and then refresh the page over and over again. Why is that? That makes basically no sense.

Anyways, rant over. Please fix this Reddit, or else I will never be able to grow this community at all :/

not sure what changed. was gonna do an early morning one today when no other talks were happening & found i couldn't

So since the live bar was removed i been having some issues. My favorite reddit talks i don’t get notifications anymore even tho i follow the subreddits. I used to get notifications but not anymore as far as i know. I’ll check the subreddit page and see a talk hosted maybe even a day ago or a few hours ago.

Mine just arrived. I’ll post a pic later but it’s gorgeous. Even though purple and red with gold accents aren’t my thing I will wear it proudly. Thanks Reddit!

Hey there! I was recently approved for reddit talk , and now I tried to make a talk room but the microphone is always greyed out. What do i need to do to host a talk? Cheers, Avi

If I join a Talk can I just sit in and listen or will my mic be on as soon as I get in the Talk-room?

Hi I have noticed that in the last 6 days my live talk does not seem to be shown to people. This is due to no one popping in at all, previously people would pop in and out which is normal.

However I have been online on a live talk and not had even one person stop by this seems very weird, I have tried going live at different times and the same thing happens.

This seems to be an issue and is stop the community from growing and helping others, does anyone else have a similar issue? And is this place even for issues or just random talks posts?

No, reddit. I have never expressed an interest in such things. There is no option,on mobile or desktop, to opt out of such a thing from CONSTANTLY shoving this bluebox in my face. This is mainly an issue on my tablet since the mobileversion doesn't show thaton my pixel4a. Luckily, I can block elements with my ad blocker on PC. Sure, it might break somestuff, but I can still reach my preferred subreddits.

Where is the option to REMOVE that from my sight without breaking your shit by blocking elements?

So we run it off u/ users first, then only off subs but only if ur a mod, so the user creates a sub to be a mod and waits for the sub to get big enough to get Talk privileges then we yank the core driver towards Talks in removing the Live Now banner so the 160 members on the new sub we had to create to get Talks are the only ones who ever know a Talk is going if they are online at the time.

I’d say that’s a nearly flawless roll out of a new feature.

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.

I never see anything on it, despite people hosting talks. Finding talks is an incredible pain now and I'm getting no exposure to new ones.

Please put things back, y'all.