I figure we could watch game/match live streams mostly. We'd never really run out of live content, since there are events all over the world happening year round.

UPDATE: "The Cytube has a very decentralized, horizontal, and anarchistic moderation system, which is to say people just do stuff and it’s generally worked out. I handled Friday movie nominations and the required piracy for a while, before i had to touch grass. Looking to resume that somewhat shortly but getting back to topic;

The hexbear cytube is over-watched by the site dev team in terms of tech stuff, but individual channels are run by their own mod teams. There’s not really a council or anything like that to decide which channels are “official”.

You should be good just registering a sports channel. It’ll set you up as admin for that channel and you can start queueing vids. It’s fairly painless to get one set-up, and sitemods are almost always willing to pin or feature a post close to showtime. Im willing to bet if you get a regular viewing schedule set up for a bit they’ll get it listed on the front channel list and start mentioning it in the mega."

-@Zoift in a PM to me

I'll get the channel up and running tomorrow. Probably just gonna start with whichever MLB afternoon game. PM me if you want to also be a channel admin!

SECOND UPDATE: Based on the limitations of Cytube (the web program that Hextube is forked from), it looks like I won't be able to make this whole thing work like I had planned, i.e. using embedding to send feeds from various sports streaming sites to Hextube. If anyone is more-code savvy than me and can host a server for the channel, I'd be interested in helping out, but given my current capabilities, I am personally at a loss for how to proceed and this appears to be dead in the water, lmao.

  • Asia_Set [he/him]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    Ok cool, thank you. I'll be in touch regarding emotes, queue settings, and CSS after the stream embedding issue gets fixed

    • itsPina [he/him, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Stream embedding is one of the biggest PITA with cytube. Only a few sites are supported. There should be a list on the cytube faq GitHub

      • Asia_Set [he/him]
        hexagon
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        edit-2
        2 years ago

        Yep. From the list I saw on GitHub it's only made to work (un-modded) with YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Soundcloud, Streamable, Livestream. com, Twitch, UStream (possibly broken, per the FAQ), Smashcast, and Mixer