Just a quick blog to welcome our new staff member Bacon_Space. Bacon reached out to me a few weeks ago with interest to help out with character data and other general site stuff. At the time I didn't have a system in place but today we have launched an admin panel with roles. He has already been busy adding characters and as you can see on our new staff pages here.

I am sure many of us watched SilentSentrys 14?15? hour stream or at least as much of it as we were able to. When watching it however I felt compelled to do something I have sort of been pushing off for a long time. I have often wondered if I should push a community aspect to the site, a place for discussion and showcase of RP (primarily GTA RP). It seemed like a lot of work with potential pitfalls along the way and definitely not something I could do alone.

These two coinciding events have resulted in a fairly fleshed out back end for the site. It is a bit bare bones but it has room for growth. I actually also created a discord a few months back but have decided to finally go forward with it. It is for site related discussion and just any GTA RP discussion in general. Ongoing happenings or good history links of events would be great but as it is a place for the community we shall see how it is received and what people want from it.

If anyone else would like to help the site in whatever way please feel free to contact me via the feedback form or join the discord and let me know. I am fully open to things we currently do not provide but people want to offer. Want to write articles? Write showcases of clips / blogs of events? Alerts of interesting live events curated by staff? Make a CSS theme that doesn't look like its from 10 years ago? Lets talk.

Hope you are all enjoying the site.

Edit: Oh and the discord link can be found here and in the menubar.

This is a long blog and it seemed fitting to have a clip of the new clip features for those who prefer not to read my walls of text.

I did a tiny stream showcasing the jump to clip vod history functionality which can be found here.

As some of you may have noticed by now there are now clip listings for servers and streamers. Along with a new item in the ever growing menu on the top left.

Really observant people may have noticed that the page has been changing a bit here and there which is why I haven't posted about it so far. I was unhappy with a few things but I feel it is now more or less in a good enough place to showcase it. Most of the ui / web frontend is in a fairly good place as is clip discovery.

So now we have clips associated with servers, lists of the clips which are sortable with range options and they link to the servers history page at the time the clip is from. The history page you are linked to is locked to the clip time, hovering will show that moment from the vod you are looking at and opening any of the vods will open them at that time unless you disable show only relevant or use shift to free roam.

There have been many changes since the feature was first launched a month ago so if you saw a bug or something that you didn't like consider checking out the features again, hopefully you won't run into any further problems.

Initially the clip discovery code just polled grand theft auto by day / week / month every half an hour but this didn't collect enough clips. I then remembered that you could filter based on clip language, so I added that and it helped discovery rates a bit. I would occasionally find a clip on reddit however that my app hadn't grabbed so the app will also checks every streamers clips that have played on a tracked GTA RP server in the last 24 hours and it does this every hour. The GTA clip polling checks the...

As some of you may have noticed there is a new options menu, with it comes a slew of new options for the stream list page.

The old options menu was hastily put together when the site was first made and long needed to be replaced.

Don't panic however as hopefully all your old settings have been converted to the new format.

There are probably still some bugs I need to workout so if you notice any let me know via the feedback form.

I have been wanting to add more servers for awhile now but have long worried about lack of features to tailor what you see or when you are notified of events. This issue is magnified on the all gta rp subdomain.

You can now reorder servers, customize notifications based on what server they are related to and hide servers among other things.

Some of the features are mainly useful for using the non server specific stream list but I have also added in more polish and general options that weren't available before. If there is something you would like to be able to configure or have any other suggestions let me know via the feedback link.

I will make a blog in the coming days going into more details perhaps with a gif or two but hopefully the settings and new options menu are self explanatory.

I will also be making a poll of some sort to see what servers people would be interested in me adding next.

Oh and I added OCRP as a server on the main page too.