Discourse Livestream

[putty (Derek Putnam)]

Hi Nat,
When I used this plugin at a former community, we could hide the video-player iframe until the user hit Going.

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

@thoka

This plugin would also be useful for appointments, such as meetings. During meeting preparation, topics often include discussions about better time slots or announcements of delays, etc. This clutters the thread with short-lived information.

Offering a linked chat for these kinds of topics could allow for easier housekeeping (chatter would be automatically removed after some time).

For this kind of functionality, it would suffice to add a setting for a list of tags where an accompanying chat should be enabled.
In addition, the button captions for different tags could be made customizable.

This is an excellent feature request, and seems as though it would be quite doable. I can see our sites using it quite a lot as we have the same problem with cluttered meeting / event Topics. @nat - could that be broken out into its own Feature topic?

[nat (<b>Natalie T)]

It does sound like the request is being made in this plugin topic but out of convenience.

From what I can read here it feels like folks want “short lived” information within a topic itself, and since Livestream has this ability, folks are leveraging this to do more things.

My suggestion would be for you to create the Feature topic with very specific requests. Or better yet upvote an existing one.

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

Maybe this Topic is the best place - we are actually debating the core use-case of the Plugin.

@nat

From what I can read here it feels like folks want “short lived” information within a topic itself, and since Livestream has this ability, folks are leveraging this to do more things.

It would make sense to me if it was instead the Discourse Topic Chats Plugin, with Livestreaming being one of the use-cases (simple events another - I’m sure that there would be more).

This could be achieved by having a setting for the Tags (and/or Categories) that this should apply to, instead of locking it to the livestream tag.

[putty (Derek Putnam)]

To circle back on the solution for anyone else, you block out the content with the following:

[preview]
Here is preview text that is be visible prior to RSVP'ing
[/preview]

[hidden]
This section is not visible until the user RSVP's going
[/hidden]

I mistakenly thought it meant:

[wrap="preview"]
[/wrap]

[wrap="hidden"]
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