Watch Party 1.4.0 is on the store now. It is mostly an admin release, plus one thing your members will notice.
For your members
Scheduled watch parties can now be added to a calendar. Every schedule offers an .ics download, so the reminder lands in Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar instead of only on the forum. A watch party nobody remembers to attend is a watch party that did not happen.
The reminder bell on an upcoming party also subscribes without reloading the page.
For you
The admin panel goes from one long list to five categories: Setup, Settings, Content, Hosts and Insights. Four pages are new.
This release also folds in the wording and template fixes from 1.3.3 and 1.3.4, which never made it to the store.
Updating is the usual two minutes: Admin CP, Add-ons, Install/upgrade from archive. Your settings and data survive. If you run the Emporium Client, it is a button.
For your members
Scheduled watch parties can now be added to a calendar. Every schedule offers an .ics download, so the reminder lands in Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar instead of only on the forum. A watch party nobody remembers to attend is a watch party that did not happen.
The reminder bell on an upcoming party also subscribes without reloading the page.
For you
The admin panel goes from one long list to five categories: Setup, Settings, Content, Hosts and Insights. Four pages are new.
- Insights: rooms and viewers over time, which categories actually get used, the split between YouTube, Twitch and VK, your busiest rooms, your most active hosts, and how members rate what they watch.
- Realtime: whether Pusher is configured, and a button to test the connection. Until now you found out it was wrong when a watch party went quiet.
- Maintenance: six one-click cleanups for orphaned messages and members, ratings left behind by deleted rooms, stale viewer records, abandoned schedules and old chat.
- Hosts: every member who has run a watch party, what they hosted, and a purge for when someone leaves.
This release also folds in the wording and template fixes from 1.3.3 and 1.3.4, which never made it to the store.
Updating is the usual two minutes: Admin CP, Add-ons, Install/upgrade from archive. Your settings and data survive. If you run the Emporium Client, it is a button.
