Crowdcast pros/cons - Githubissues

yarikoptic commented 4 years ago

Pros

casts to hundreds (thousands?) of participants
has chat
- emoticons in the chat but IIRC as a separate post (ideally better be like mattermost emoticons per post)
makes video record of the event to share later
every participant it's just a participant of chat without audio/video unless invited
built in polls
built in q&a

Cons

closed paid service
limits to up to 4 active invited participants. Mitigated by starting zoom and sharing the screen. Cons: those who share can't see chat, those who participated have audio/video mismatch unless mute crowdcast (if I got it right)
chat log, q&a, polls doesn't seem to have a permanent url
chat is rudimentary, Afaik no @references (and to associate response with a particular comment) supported

Pros/cons (feature which might be needed)

allows (or requires?) authorized (login/password) to access

r03ert0 commented 4 years ago

It may be good to compare Crowdcast vs Jitsi, to better see which functionalities of crowdcast cannot be implemented open source: Jitsi has a chat, can record videos to youtube and vimeo, participants can have audio and video muted. Unclear if it can work for broadcasting alone. Jitsi's iframe API is a big plus (especially the data channel, which enables server-less inter-user interaction).

r03ert0 commented 4 years ago

https://obsproject.com/ may be a good open source alternative for broadcasting.

yarikoptic commented 4 years ago

Here I would like to collect information about features of crowdcast we would like to have. We better discuss alternative setups in a dedicated issue https://github.com/con/ference/issues/3 to which I had added a comment on the amazing OBS which I love (I would say it is not for every participant to use)

soichih commented 4 years ago

My daughter uses OBS to record her video and post them on YouTube. She says it's the best screen recording tool that's out there used by many YouTubers.

yarikoptic commented 4 years ago

Yes, OBS is awesome, and could be used probably at different "levels". E.g. I initiated #15 now to collect recommendations for speakers/participants. It, and in particular a windows-only (but might work on mac) clone mentioned in #4.

con / ference

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