Good news, everyone! It's @ddrfr33k with a huge update! @chiren has been hard at work making changes while I've been sitting in the board room, sipping on some fine whiskey. Yeah, right! Like I have time for that! No, we've got more updates than the past months, and it's so awesome! Let's get into this, shall we?
Starting things off, VIMM embeds are now implemented on PeakD! Thanks to @foreveraverage who reached out to the folks @peakd and made the suggestion. If you're using Peakd and you click on any post, if the stream is live, you can watch it right through Peakd! Here's what @hiphopphantom's Persona 5 stream looks like in Peakd:
How awesome is that? We should have implemented this a while ago, I know. We're working on it, we really are!
We rolled out some updates to our VOD system in anticipation of rolling it out to more people at the end of the month. A couple big changes:
Added video length to replays and browse page
Fixed an issue where multiple recordings of the same stream would run after short disconnects
Implemented a scalable long term storage solution for replays and related assets
Improved buffering time on replays
We're still working out the kinks, but both @chiren and I think it's 99% ready to go right now. We just want to make sure we do this right and not rush perfection. Currently, we're planning on running this for Top 5 and Diamond at first, and then rolling it out to Gold members shortly thereafter. If you haven't started streaming on Vimm, now is a great time to start!
Gems are back in action! Thanks to @eonwarped, we recently completed the transition of all gems from Steem Engine to Hive Engine. Balances have been mirrored from steem-engine to hive-engine on the 10th of April 2020. Any staked Gems or open orders on the market has been included in the airdrop. Anyone who staked Gems before the transition (Did anyone do this besides @ddrfr33k?) will need to stake them again.
You probably saw our THIS IS THE END!!! post a few days back. The last Steem delegation payout will be tomorrow, April 15th. From now on, our Delegation payouts will be in Hive. @ddrfr33k pledged to delegate 10% of his SP back on the Steem Blockchain, and he's already stepped it up here on Hive. You should join him, and help make @vimm upvotes worth a boatload! We rely on you guys, you help keep us going!
Thanks in no small part to some help from our old friend @foreveraverage, we have a revamped mobile view! If you haven't been on the mobile site in a while, we don't blame you. It was very rudimentary, and needed an update something fierce. It looks much better now! Go check it out if you haven't yet.
I told you we had a lot to cover, didn't I? This change to Hive has been slightly tragic but also promising. We didn't want to see Steem go down the way it did. We wanted to be active on both chains. We wanted to help people grow, but that simply isn't tenable in the current environment. Regardless, we're happy you're still with us, and we want to help you grow your platform.
Who do you want to see stream on Vimm? What can we do to help them make that happen?
