Ability to mark private / secret / public on creation of a playground / screencast

[aaronshaf]

Instead of when publishing. For peace of mind. :)

[aaronshaf]

I create a lot of ephemeral screencasts / playgrounds titled "delete me"

[perborgen]

Did you know you can edit the metadata right after you create it? Hit the settings icon in the top right corner and choose 'Edit metadata', and then set it to private/secret.

Will that do the trick? :)

[bobziroll]

I'm with @aaronshaf on this one. I just created some test casts and published them, and then realized they were showing up in the "Recently Published" list at the bottom of the homepage 😱. Now that I know you can change it before publishing it, I'll just make sure to do that, but it'd be nice if I could be reminded when creating the cast in the beginning so I don't forget and have some items public and some private.

It'd be nice if the creation modal had the options available there. Something like:

Also, it'd probably be helpful to describe the difference between "Private" and "Secret" because I'm not sure I understand the difference.

[perborgen]

Totally agree @bobziroll !

Until we find the time to add that, is it ok for you to use the settings icon in the screencast and set it to private via the 'Edit Metadata' option before you publish it? See attached screenshot.

Once you've set it to private, it won't appear on the front page (even if you publish it).

Private means only you can watch it, Secret means you can only find it via the URL directly. We should probably change the last one to 'Unlisted'.

[ragcsalo]

Is there a way to create tutorials which would be accessible only for those who pay for it? Could I maybe embed the scrimba tutorial on my website, without revealing it's direct URL? I make my living from making tutorial videos (in Hungarian) for 15 years now, and this new concept would be really great for making new tutorials! :-)

[davismj]

I've been working on courses for Aurelia. I really like this tool you have here and, if it works better than my current OBS set up, I'd be willing to pay for some method of pay walling.

Right now, we are using Thinkific, which supports video uploads. I'm not exactly sure how I'd expect this to work. Perhaps if I could create a private Scrimba with the ability to create embeddable iframes that 401 if accessed outside the thinkific host?

Another option would be to start building verticial and offer a coding-specific course hosting platform.

Either way, I'm interested.