1105067 - Counter of how many people are watched a live stream

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Air Mozilla, defect, P1)

Description

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

(this is based on a request from our CFO)

We can't easily pull out these numbers from the Edgecast CDN so we need something more sustainable. 

The only way to count how many people are actively watching would be to run a WebSocket that notices when people disconnect and keep incrementing and decrementing. 

A much simpler solution would be to simply increment only during the time the event is live and add that to the number of hits. This could load asynchronously when you load the page.

Comment 1

[Richard A Milewski[:richard]]

We get lots of requests for this from Mitchell, Chris and Mardi as well.

Comment 2

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/airmozilla

https://github.com/mozilla/airmozilla/commit/e45b7f934abaefabd017a368a378242f98ebb45a
bug 1105067 - Counter of how many people are watched a live stream

Comment 3

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Richard, lemme demo this to you. Or feel free to try it yourself on a live event on dev. 

I'm not closing the bug yet because I need to figure out a nice way to showing this number AFTER it's no longer live. I think that needs some thought-togetherism.

Comment 4

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/airmozilla

https://github.com/mozilla/airmozilla/commit/240c437920fa812e4b0a829c7b2731a1983487e6
bug 1105067 - show livehits immediately

Comment 5

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/airmozilla

https://github.com/mozilla/airmozilla/commit/72742e9182fefed26ced92b4d8a4db79b1beff6b
bug 1105067 - start recording live hit after livestream starts

Comment 6

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

This has landed and is in production. When we decide to do something more constructive with it after it's live we can open a new bug.