Reddit is rumoured to be working on a Clubhouse-like experience

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If the reports are accurate, Reddit is the latest tech company to explore bringing voice chats into its site. The service is "quietly exploring" moderator-run voice chats, similar to what Clubhouse offers. But according to Mashable's source, its development is still in the early stages and described as confidential. Reddit hasn't commented on the rumoured feature.

This potential function might be part of Reddit's power-ups program, which it announced in August 2020. This "experiment" offers extra features for subreddits whose members buy "a minimum threshold of power-up subscriptions." Some additional features include the "ability to upload and stream up to HD quality video" and "inline GIFs in comments."

Reddit will soon offer promoted posts to advertisers on its mobile apps

Similar to what Facebook has done, Reddit is gearing up to sell promoted posts to its advertisers for both Android and iOS apps. According to Marketing Land, Reddit sent out an email to its advertisers about this claiming that its mobile users account for 41 percent of the time its users spend on the site. Promoted posts have been available for the desktop since 2016. Reddit promises to get the same targeting as the desktop ones, which is by interest, community, geography, and device. These will also get upvotes, downvotes, and comments. It’s coming on Monday, March 19 to iOS users and will hit Android devices in the coming weeks.

Source: CNET

Engineers of Android O to hold Reddit AMA

The engineering team behind Android O is giving fans and everyone else a chance to ask their burning questions ahead of the public release of the new Android mobile operating system at an upcoming Reddit AMA. The page is already up and it makes it clear that the engineers will only answer questions related to the engineering of the OS and not whether Android O stands for Android Oreo or something. We can expect them to be asked about Project Treble, though, which is seen as the company’s way to reduce fragmentation between Android devices made by different manufacturers. Theoretically, it’ll let companies update Android devices quicker without having to go through their chip partners. Google has previously said new devices coming out with Android O out of the gate get full Project Treble treatment.

A new developer preview of the OS is expected to come out ahead of the official release of Android O before the end of September. If you’re interested in the AMA, it’s going to start on Wednesday, July 19 at 12:00 PM PST (3:00 PM EST) and will continue for an hour and a half.

Source: Android Authority