Livestream is now an optional toggle on event creation

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As part of the ongoing work now that Livestream is now part of the Events plugin, we’re making it simpler to create livestream events.

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What’s changing

You no longer need to tag topics livestream, it’s now an attribute directly on the event.

When creating a new event, just supply a URL and a livestream toggle will appear. Toggle it on and you’re done! On creation the video will be embedded and a chat channel will appear.

Existing livestream tagged topics will be migrated automatically.

These site settings are being removed:

  • livestream_enabled
  • livestream_chat_allowed_groups

Livestream will now use existing chat and event permissions.

For developers

Livestream is now an attribute on the post event rather than a topic tag.

On the front-end you can check topic.has_livestream, server-side you can check topic.first_post&.event&.livestream?

The event itself also serializes livestream directly, so anywhere you have the event object you can read event.livestream.

When a topic is a livestream, the body gets a new class:

body.livestream-topic {
  /* your livestream styles */
}

This is part of a series of updates to events and livestream, keep an eye out for more features coming soon!

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