Community Talk #3 - Wednesday, January 22th at 9pm UTC/4pm EST

Vladimir

Are you ready for this week's Community Talk? This is a unique opportunity to get the latest Community buzz, listen to inspiring stories of fellow freelancers and just have fun. Our guest this week is Debs!

You can join the live stream on Riverside with no hassle by using this link.

Event Date: Wednesday, January 22th at 9pm UTC/4pm EST

Note that the audience link is the same for all Community Talk events, so you can save it and easily join every time the new event starts.

Cheers,
Vladimir

human

Hi,
I received a mail from the forum that informs me about the community talk. Usually I disable notifications since I don't like getting notification mails. I checked my notification settings in the user page and I couldn't see any permissions that I granted to send me notification mails.

Would you kindly unsubscribe me? I'd really prefer to have an option for things like this. I think "asking" before contacting is a good and civil practice in general.

Vladimir

human Apologies for the inconvenience and thanks for the feedback. I'm checking with Djole, our tech wiz, if we can enable an option. We'll also follow up to confirm you're unsubscribed from future email notifications.

Djole

human Our forum software currently lacks a feature to notify all users about upcoming events (or anything similar). To address this, we used a mass emailing tool. However, this tool does not include an unsubscribe option or integrate with our permission settings. As a result, we have decided to discontinue its use until we can find or develop a more suitable solution.

Daniel Thank you for the suggestion! I'll make sure to include an option to automatically convert to the local timezone or provide a link for easy time conversion in the upcoming updates.

Daniel

Hi Vladimir,

Can you guys add a third-party time converter plugin to the FF? Whatever works. It would be better to have it nearby rather than searching and converting it elsewhere. I can't make this one, but I logged into the previous event afterward, time converting mistake I made, and said hello when it was empty..🤪

Vladimir

Daniel I understand the time zone confusion as I'm regularly having to navigate different time zones and convert meeting times. We also had this problem in the former Community.

We looked into improving the time zone feature at the get go but didn't find any existing Flarum options that would work with event setting. I'll share your feedback with Djole and we'll take another look as this is a crucial piece to the whole event experience.

I personally prefer World Time Buddy fyi.

Daniel

Vladimir Thank you for the tip! Enjoy the event.

Kelly_E

Aargh I don't seem to be able to join via the link... it insisted I get the app... so I did... and the link still doesn't go to the livestream. I'm sure it's me, but I don't know why...

edit: working now, I guess I was just early

Mark

Kelly_E Maybe try a different browser?

Kelly_E

Mark It didn't like my computer at all so I had tried my phone... which for some reason it also didn't like for several minutes. I thought maybe I was early, but I was about 5–10 minutes into the livestream by the time I got it working. No idea what the problem was.

Eve

Will you start live streaming these events on YouTube, once your channel is qualified to do lives? Also, why aren’t they just uploaded to YouTube as they are? Do they really need to be edited first?

Kelly_E

Eve Second vote... I'd also prefer YouTube to this app... but maybe YT has its own problems?

Debs1723

Eve I'm happy if it's edited. I talk too much! 😇😅

Eve

Kelly_E but maybe YT has its own problems?

I've never had any issues live streaming to YouTube. But you need either a certain number of followers on the channel or 1000 watch hours (can't remember which one) before you can do live streams. Then everyone can just follow along in the chat, and you can see the chat even if you don't watch it live.

Eve

Debs1723 Random ramblings always make a conversation more interesting. The more you talk, the better. :)

Sang

Eve Agreed, I very much enjoyed the intriguing details of your stories @Debs1723 ! What a fascinating life you lead :) @Andrea I went and checked out your cross-stitch work, they're so lovely!! Thank you @Vladimir always for hosting these talks

TopRatedTroll

Thank you to Deb and Andrea for the great chat!

Debs1723

TopRatedTroll you are welcome!

Andrea

TopRatedTroll You're welcome, it was fun!

Ravi

Great advice from both @Debs1723 and @Andrea.

Thank you!

Andrea

Ravi Thank you!

Debs1723

Ravi thanks for your kind words!