One of Clubhouse’s defining traits was that all the audio chats that occurred on its platform have been reside. Once the dialog was over, it was over. That helped construct an air of exclusivity round Clubhouse’s audio chat rooms, particularly within the earlier days the place solely influencers and celebrities had entry to the app.

But now, the corporate appears to have modified its tune. Clubhouse has simply known as Replay, the place customers can select to document the audio chat after which reserve it to a membership or profile. They will be downloaded and shared externally too, simply in case somebody needs to make use of it as a podcast or a TikTok soundtrack.

Replay will even assist pinned links, a latest characteristic that enables chat moderators to hyperlink out to completely different websites throughout a dialog. Those hyperlinks will stay totally interactive to those that are listening to the recording afterward as nicely.

Listeners to a recorded dialog can skip to the subsequent speaker, pause, scrub, or make a 30-second clip. They can even hearken to it at 1.5 or 2x pace. However, bear in mind that creators will be capable of see who’s listening to their Replays. They’ll additionally be capable of have a “total room count” to see how many individuals in whole — each reside and recorded — listened to the room. Starting subsequent week, Replays will seem on Clubhouse’s discovery pages, which incorporates search.

As TechCrunch factors out, Replay is clearly nice for many who don’t have time to catch a reside audio occasion, which in flip makes Clubhouse extra interesting to these with busy schedules. As Clubhouse will get extra competitors corresponding to Twitter Spaces and Facebook’s Live Audio Rooms, it’ll seemingly want much more options to assist differentiate itself from its rivals.