Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

@gabek

I just had an idea when I woke up this morning, I was thinking about how owncast can be configured to upload the HLS segments to object storage. What if the entire app, including all of the user facing static content & user facing api responses could be uploaded too? Then the only thing missing would be the chat, and I know there would be ways to fix that.

Another idea I had was what if owncast could be run in "frontend" and "backend" mode, when its run in frontend mode its just a static file server + the chat, when its run in "backend mode" it's just encoding HLS segments and uploading them to the frontend.

@gabek according to caniuse this browser feature is on 92% of all clients today: https://caniuse.com/es6-module

@gabek Hey I did some 1st impression load time tests with owncast frontend app, testing pre-loading the JS modules via <script type="module" src="..."> tags. The 1st test with HTTP/1.1 took about 10 seconds regardless of whether the script tags were there or not:

https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/owncast-first-impression-http-1.1.mkv

But watch what happens when you turn on HTTP/2:

https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/owncast-first-impression-http-2.mkv