generalize stream tags

[xDashh]

At the moment there is something like a stream table that contains boolean flags for some pre-defined tags (nsfw,afk,...) that streams can receive. Instead, think about setting tags dynamically, and letting the front-end decide what to do with any given tag. In the future that might allow people to tag their own streams and letting people filter via that.

Another idea is introducing special tags like news for streams that could be displayed in some special way as always-online regardless of viewership for well-known always-online news coverage streams.

Another idea: admin ability to mark custom m3u8/advanced embeds "saved" so you do not have to click the warning away. General version: whitelist whole domains or similar.

[kenany]

On the database side of things, I don't think our DB supports arrays, so I guess this would need to be, say, a comma-delimited string of tags.

[xDashh]

I think in a case like this you usually define some tag-table that has id-name pairs, and then associate streams with tag-ids so new tags don't require db modification, just insertion... But JSON(-like?) storage seems doable too, especially for user-settings (related issue https://github.com/MemeLabs/Rustla2/issues/98 ). I think at least sqlite has a JSON type now.

[slugalisk]

The only people using the stream path feature are twitch broadcasters trying to promote their stream. We have no practical way to verify ownership for /service/channel streams. Who is allowed to modify which streams?

[xDashh]

People don't use the stream_path because it has no benefit I'd say. If we want to push this, there'd have to be some incentive. Being able to put tags on your stream (once they are useful in some way) could be one of them.

To answer the question: for the kinds of streams you mention, only admins most likely...