Open rossng opened 3 years ago
The UXishness of this could easily get overwhelming, especially as there is a superficially similar split between organizers and participants in the backstage area. Could the two sets of concepts / UIs somehow by unified or at least synchronized?
This looks like a "Workshop/Tutorial" room mode that would enable us to stop resorting to Zoom for this use case.
From a UX standpoint, I agree this is basically the same as the livestream scenario: a bunch of watchers and the option to somehow promote them into presenting.
This feels like a halfway house between ordinary video chat and full livestream. We already have a request (somewhere) to be able to record breakout rooms on the fly (which basically means promoting an ordinary video chat into a livestreamed one on the fly, even if the stream itself isn't viewed by anyone, it would enable us to record)
It's annoying, isn't it. The split is basically:
And the split between the last two is only a result of the technical implementation. But very very hard to work around without building our own video pipeline from scratch and using something like Millicast to broadcast it.
Let's do that... next year.
Vonage limits us to
subscribers * publishers <= 3000
. With 50 room participants, it's viable for rooms to work in an uncontrolled mode.Above this limit, we run into the significant risk that people will not be able to publish or subscribe to new audio streams.
To resolve this, I propose a new 'large room' mode for rooms. It probably needs some of the following functionality: