Today on the live stream I had the opportunity to test out a web app that @OleHenrik has been developing. It generates lower thirds from YouTube Live chat questions. The questions are flagged by a moderator (or producer) and then the host can choose which to answer on their live stream.
A beautiful static webpage with lower third is generated and updates for each question selected. The lower third includes YouTube username, avatar and the chat question itself.
The static webpage can easily be added to streaming software like OBS Studio using the BrowserSource overlay. This app is a great way to increase interaction on any YouTube Live stream.
Alright! After almost a month of absence, i have returned. The school came and sucked up all of my time, things are however calming down, as I will have a 1-week vacation from school next week, and I will have more free time after that as well, which brings me to the good news:
I have a plan for the Questions and Answers system; I hope to rewrite parts of the base code to make it work better with the youtube API than it does at present. After that, i want to remove any remaining bugs and quirks before I move on to the more significant functionality changes like:
Making the UI work better for both live streaming teams and those who stream on their own.
Adding a more secure system, using Google Logins.
Adding support for other streaming services, like twitch and facebook.
Improve the general code, as right now it is a bit messy and all over the place.
And at some point, i would like to make it possible to easily add custom datasets to easily generate lower thirds from a list of presets you have made.
Here’s where all of you come in, seeing as how I will be tearing a lot of the app apart to fix things and improve it, now is a great time to suggest other changes to further improve on the app! The best way to suggest new features is to post them on the GitHub issues tracker here: Issues · Hennamann/Live-Chat-Question-Flagger · GitHub But feel free to post them here and I will do my best to pay attention to them.
On a slightly unrelated note, I hope to once again be active on the forum and at least for the next week be active on the stream!
Welcome back @OleHenrik, nice to see you again. I was wondering where were you the other day! I think we all can make a little contribution to the project.
