Clubhouse Rolls Out 2 Changes to How Clubs Work on Its Platform

Clubhouse is introducing two key changes to clubs on its platform: Eliminating followers and creating a single relationship to clubs, membership; and creating a new role, leaders, to smooth the process for administrators. The social audio application said in a blog post introducing the updates, “These updates are based on a lot of feedback we've received from top club admins, so we think you'll like them, but we wanted to give you all a chance to preview the changes before they go live to make sure we're not breaking anything important.” With the elimination of club followers, admins can choose to make membership in their clubs “Open,” meaning that any Clubhouse users can join, or “By Approval,” where admins must individually approve all members. Clubhouse said in its blog post that admins hosting public shows will likely want to choose Open, as they will not have to convert every follower into a member, saving them from an onerous task. Meanwhile, those hosting private communities can opt for the By Approval setting and either use the “Apply to Join” button on the club page to enable people to apply for membership, or hide the button to make the club truly invite-only. People assigned to the new leaders role can start rooms and schedule events that all club members can see, but they cannot edit club settings, edit the name of the club or add and remove members. Clubhouse detailed the new roles and rights below: Newly created clubs will have the new features by default, and admins of existing clubs will need to take some actions to transition to the new model. As for existing clubs, those that currently don’t allow followers will remain mostly unchanged. People will be able to click Apply to Join, unless, as detailed above, admins disable that feature. Clubs that currently have followers and do not allow members to create rooms will have their followers automatically converted to members. Clubs that currently have followers and allow members to create rooms must decide whether to let anyone join as members or individually approve people. If they opt for the former, followers will automatically be upgraded to members, and new people can instantly join. Admins will be asked to confirm that they want all members to be able to start rooms. If they opt for the latter, admins can find their followers in the “Add Members” section of their club page if they wish to approve them as members. Until those followers are approved or rejected as members, they will continue to see notifications about public rooms hosted by the club. All club admins will receive notifications detailing the changes, and Clubhouse will post a frequently asked questions page with guidance on how to set up clubs the way admins wish to.

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Clubhouse Rolls Out 2 Changes to How Clubs Work on Its Platform

Followers are being eliminated in favor of membership as a single relationship, and a new leaders role was added

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