What is discourse-livestream used for?

oga · August 18, 2024, 10:34pm

Ok, the name is intuitive enough, but, there are settings no details on how to use it.
I mean this plugin

So, is it used for Live Streaming as in Showing something live?

HAWK · August 18, 2024, 10:35pm

From the ReadMe

Plugin Summary

This plugin allows you to embed a live stream from a variety of sources inside a Discourse community.

oga · August 19, 2024, 12:12pm

Yes, but how? Say I am streaming from xyz. Do I just simply copy xyz url and paste?
Sorry, I am used to complexity, LOL, and I noticed it has no configurable properties.

wal · August 19, 2024, 1:44pm

I agree, this plugin could really use some better documentation.

thoka · August 19, 2024, 4:50pm

There is a spec for this plugin, from where you can deduce its working:

github.com

discourse/discourse-livestream/blob/main/spec/lib/discourse_livestream/handle_topic_chat_channel_creation_spec.rb

# frozen_string_literal: true

RSpec.describe DiscourseLivestream do
  describe ".handle_topic_chat_channel_creation" do
    let(:topic) { Fabricate(:topic) }

    context "when the topic has no category" do
      it "does not create a chat channel" do
        described_class.handle_topic_chat_channel_creation(topic)

        expect(Chat::Channel.count).to eq(0)
      end
    end

    context "when the topic has a category" do
      let(:category) { Fabricate(:category) }

      before { topic.update!(category: category) }

      context "when the topic has no 'livestream' tag" do

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I’ve tried to use ChatGPT for a how-to, but most of it seems to be hallucinations.

I would have expected:

Add the tag livestream to a topic to create a connected chat channel.
The topics author will be subscribed to this channel automatically.

isaac · August 19, 2024, 5:22pm

Hey there @oga

As you can see, the plugin is currently open sourced meaning anyone can use it. That being said, it is very much an experimental plugin for the time being. Hence the lack of public documentation.

We (Discourse) have the intention of making it more accessible in the future, but we don’t have a concrete roadmap for the plugin at the moment.

David_Ghost · August 20, 2024, 10:52am

What a good news for gaming communities. I’ll test this as soon as possible in my gaming forum

Jagster · August 20, 2024, 11:00am

Well, looks like its (one) purpose has been connecting a chat to an event. But it works with other topics too.

But layout is somewhat broken (Buzz announcement) so this isn’t suitable for production, though.

Falco · August 20, 2024, 12:32pm

This was made for our Enterprise customers, and has seen live streams with thousands of participants, very much in production

The plugin is ready, and open source, but that doesn’t mean it also contains a newbie friendly out of the box experience. When we work on those plugins that are designed for a specific need of our customers, we open source most but that doesn’t mean it will always include batteries.

Jagster · August 20, 2024, 12:35pm

I know that. But good to know they aren’t using default theme and iPads

My very weak point was it isn’t for everybody even it is open source.

system · September 19, 2024, 12:35pm

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