There are now clips! They also act as bookmarks to vod history.
This is a long blog and it seemed fitting to have a clip of the new clip features for those who prefer not to read my walls of text.
I did a tiny stream showcasing the jump to clip vod history functionality which can be found here.
As some of you may have noticed by now there are now clip listings for servers and streamers. Along with a new item in the ever growing menu on the top left.
Really observant people may have noticed that the page has been changing a bit here and there which is why I haven't posted about it so far. I was unhappy with a few things but I feel it is now more or less in a good enough place to showcase it. Most of the ui / web frontend is in a fairly good place as is clip discovery.
What's newSo now we have clips associated with servers, lists of the clips which are sortable with range options and they link to the servers history page at the time the clip is from. The history page you are linked to is locked to the clip time, hovering will show that moment from the vod you are looking at and opening any of the vods will open them at that time unless you disable show only relevant or use shift to free roam.
There have been many changes since the feature was first launched a month ago so if you saw a bug or something that you didn't like consider checking out the features again, hopefully you won't run into any further problems.
Bit of backgroundInitially the clip discovery code just polled grand theft auto by day / week / month every half an hour but this didn't collect enough clips. I then remembered that you could filter based on clip language, so I added that and it helped discovery rates a bit. I would occasionally find a clip on reddit however that my app hadn't grabbed so the app will also checks every streamers clips that have played on a tracked GTA RP server in the last 24 hours and it does this every hour. The GTA clip polling checks the...
New options menu and stream list features
As some of you may have noticed there is a new options menu, with it comes a slew of new options for the stream list page.
The old options menu was hastily put together when the site was first made and long needed to be replaced.
Don't panic however as hopefully all your old settings have been converted to the new format.
There are probably still some bugs I need to workout so if you notice any let me know via the feedback form.
I have been wanting to add more servers for awhile now but have long worried about lack of features to tailor what you see or when you are notified of events. This issue is magnified on the all gta rp subdomain.
You can now reorder servers, customize notifications based on what server they are related to and hide servers among other things.
Some of the features are mainly useful for using the non server specific stream list but I have also added in more polish and general options that weren't available before. If there is something you would like to be able to configure or have any other suggestions let me know via the feedback link.
A couple of tipsHover over options for more explanation
You can click the label describing an option to select the option element
Click and drag servers in the stream list > streams option page to include them or exclude the from the stream list page.
Changing to a different options tab / panel attempts to save any changes you have made.
Errors during saving will need to be fixed before proceeding.
Testing notifications displays changed settings but does not save them.
Closing the options dialog will discard any unsaved changes.
Options are domain specific.
I will make a blog in the coming days going into more details perhaps with a gif or two but hopefully the settings and new options menu are self explanatory.
I will also be making a poll of some sort to see what servers people would be interested in me adding next.
Oh and I added OCRP as a server on the main page too.