Expand streaming capabilities (a la clubhouse)

[kentcdodds]

I think the clubhouse model is very interesting and I think we could get the bot to facilitate this sort of thing building on the existing streaming stuff.

Here are the new features I think we could have (using the command ?clubhouse but thinking we could come up with a better name):

?clubhouse help

This is the list of the available commands:
- Send `?clubhouse start "Topic of conversation"` and I'll create a temporary voice channel and notify your followers. If you don't already have a "follow me" message, I'll post one for you in the `#🚨-follow-me` channel so people can sign up to be notified when you join a clubhouse.
- Send `?clubhouse schedule "Topic of conversation" for Wednesdays at 3:00 PM MDT` to schedule a recurring clubhouse. I'll also post in the `#🚨-upcoming-clubhouses` channel so people can opt-into getting notified when it starts.
- Send `?clubhouse schedule "Topic of conversation" for tomorrow at 2:31 PM MDT` to schedule a one-time clubhouse. I'll also post in the `#🚨-upcoming-clubhouses` channel so people can opt-into getting notified when it starts.

So we'd have a follow-me channel with messages like this:

React to this message with ✋ to be notified when @so-and-so starts/schedules a clubhouse meeting.

And the upcoming clubhouse messages would be just like the upcoming streams thing we have now.

I think that the streams could morph into this (or maybe we just keep calling them streams and we just add some of these features).

A key feature here is the ability to schedule these whenever and not worry about overlap because the voice channel will be created on-demand rather than reusing the same voice channel for everyone.

Thoughts?

Here's where we're at

• [x] Rename "stream" to "meetup"
• [x] Start a stream "now"
• [x] Create the follow-me channel and command
• [x] Notify all followers and opt-in-ers when a stream is ready to go
• [x] Create a new voice channel when the meetup begins
• [x] If the meetup title has a zoom link, don't create a voice channel
• [x] Add ability to delete follow-me messages
• [x] Add ability to schedule recurring meetups
• [x] Add ability to update the description for a scheduled meetup

[tigerabrodi]

Sounds great. :blue_heart:

A question: The commands for recurring clubhouses and a one-time clubhouse seem to be the same or very similar? How do you plan on distinguishing them from each other? :thinking:

An idea could be to keep the same flag, but for recurring ones perhaps add a flag of "-R" at the end or something like that. :sunglasses:

[smeijer]

I like the idea that you outline, but I don't see how it's different from the current streams.

Maybe we should just improve that? The temporary rooms/channels for active streams sound like a useful addition to prevent overlap.

If we'd add a voice or video option, then we basically have clubhouse? Right?

Feel free to rename stream to clubhouse. 😬

[Aprillion]

Feel free to rename stream to clubhouse.

I am more happy with stream and I don't have a need for clubhouses TBH. Overlapping temporary voice channels sound confusing to me, but I will be happy to just not use the feature, not trying to discourage any experiments to improve streaming bot :)

[kentcdodds]

I'm worried that "Learning Clubs" and "Clubhouse" might be a confusing combination since they have nothing to do with each other... But I don't want to put this feature into a box. It's not just for streaming, chatting, podcasting, office-hours-ing, etc. It's for any and all of those things... Hmmm...

[kentcdodds]

How about "meetup"?

[kentcdodds]

Yeah, we're going with meetup :)

[kentcdodds]

Emoji is 🪢

I hope most people have that. If not, they'll have it as soon as they update their OS.

[kentcdodds]

Made some amazing progress on this!

• [x] Add ability to delete follow-me messages
• [ ] Add ability to schedule recurring meetups

Other than that, this thing is good! Excited about this :)

[smeijer]

I don't know what awesome emoji you're thinking about, but "as soon as they update their OS" might take a looooooong time for a lot of people. Discord also runs on phones. And a lot of phones run for many years, without a single update.

meetup sounds good to me.

Screenshot taken on Android 10.

[Aprillion]

@smeijer the Unicode 13 character does not work on macOS Mojave or Windows 10 either, but I was able to copy&paste it for search => https://emojipedia.org/knot/

Discord client seems to support :knot:

[kentcdodds]

Alright, I'm open to other suggestions 😅

Unfortunately discord emoji aren't rendered in channel names, otherwise we could make some sweet custom emoji for those 😔

[Aprillion]

what about one of these: 🗣 🏫 💡 🤔

[kentcdodds]

I like 💡 👍

[kentcdodds]

Alright! So meetups is basically feature complete. Only one smallish thing left and that's adding the ability to update the details of a scheduled meetup. I'm pretty sure we'll do something like:

?meetups update <link-to-meetup> "New subject" and other descriptive info

That shouldn't be an enormous challenge, and it's something that can be added even after people start using meetups so I feel comfortable encouraging people to start using this.

I'm going to migrate my office hours and "kent live" stuff over to this myself :)

[kentcdodds]

Alright, that's implemented now. We've got ourselves meetups!