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Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by Someone1234 »

eastdakota wrote: post #2

Details and rationale: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-cloudflare-...

After reading the schedule...

I understand how this benefits Cloudflare, but I don't really see why I'd tune in. Seems like a mix of Cloudflare ads and "technical" content that is barely technical. More vague TED Talk-style philosophy.

If I had to describe who I felt was the target demographic, I'd name middle managers who work in tech but don't actually know much tech.

I mean they have someone from McAfee talking about security, and title it "Cyber: The New Frontier," it is so cringy, and they seemingly don't realize that.

I obviously don't speak for others, so maybe I am wrong and there is a lot of people who want to watch video content showcasing corporate America's biggest tech illiterate "tech" luminaries, spouting their outmoded concepts of what the future will be like from the viewpoint of ten years behind the cutting edge.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by ireflect »

eastdakota wrote: post #8
ireflect wrote: post #4

This is really interesting and I hope it's a success. It seems like it's intended to be 80% useful and 20% tongue-in-cheek joke. I'm skeptical that viewers will prefer this live scheduled format rather than simply posting all the videos to be viewed on-demand. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of this anachronism (and especially their 80s-era channel ID logo to go along with it) but personally I prefer to consume v…

We think interactivity is key, hence why we are prioritizing as much live content as we can. Site will become more and more interactive over time.

Oh cool, that makes sense. I wish you all the best!

Re: Cloudflare TV

#13

Post by cocktailpeanuts »

eastdakota wrote: post #9
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #6

at first i was very excited just hearing "cloudflare TV", but it doesn't look like this is what i was expecting. i don't really get the point of this. it's just another live conference broadcasting platform? why would people use this instead of just broadcasting on YouTube? Maybe i'm missing something but feels like just another marketing scheme that came from someone saying "hey this coronavirus is supposed to be th…

What were you expecting?

I was not expecting anything that has to do with coronavirus, and I was expecting something that takes advantage of the strengths of cloudflare the company that no one else has.

As I said, the 24/7 idea has huge potential and I think cloudflare is well positioned to do something in this arena.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by bdcravens »

So it's a YouTube channel on a schedule as opposed to on-demand. A quick check shows much of the content is actually already available on YouTube.

What's unclear is if there is content available only here, such as actual live content.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by [deleted] »

calcifer wrote: post #3

Seems like a useful service, but there is something quite ironic about having a video titled "The Risks of a Consolidating Internet" [1] hosted by Cloudflare. [1] https://cloudflare.tv/best-of/478d779664ac0f7ae7fe21064bdcb4...

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Re: Cloudflare TV

#16

Post by eastdakota »

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #13
eastdakota wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What were you expecting?

I was not expecting anything that has to do with coronavirus, and I was expecting something that takes advantage of the strengths of cloudflare the company that no one else has. As I said, the 24/7 idea has huge potential and I think cloudflare is well positioned to do something in this arena.

Let's see how it evolves. As I wrote in the blog post, this is fundamentally a medium to allow us to experiment with new things and see what resonates.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by ck2 »

got excited that someone was maybe finally going to fix all the stupid stuttering, broken stream, lagged to hell home webcams that the billion dollar newsmedia still hasn't solved after four months because everyone insists on using wireless everything stacking the latency

but this is interesting too

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by ShroudedNight »

ireflect wrote: post #4

This is really interesting and I hope it's a success. It seems like it's intended to be 80% useful and 20% tongue-in-cheek joke. I'm skeptical that viewers will prefer this live scheduled format rather than simply posting all the videos to be viewed on-demand. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of this anachronism (and especially their 80s-era channel ID logo to go along with it) but personally I prefer to consume v…

I think 'live' television serves as an effective master clock for synchronizing shared experiences. I would expect that it's especially effective when the community of people who share a common interest is large enough that peer to peer election of that kind of timing authority would be infeasible without for-purpose technical infrastructure that either currently doesn't exist, or is so niche that the results are equivalent.

Synchronized experience seems to enable some pretty powerful community interactions around discussion and participation that just don't seem to coalesce into a critical mass when everyone experiences (and then comments and participates) asynchronously.

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

calcifer wrote: post #3

Seems like a useful service, but there is something quite ironic about having a video titled "The Risks of a Consolidating Internet" [1] hosted by Cloudflare. [1] https://cloudflare.tv/best-of/478d779664ac0f7ae7fe21064bdcb4...

I'd argue CDN services are our best defense against centralization like AWS and GCP. Cloudflare makes it possible for me to host something out of my house without getting taken down by a mild amount of attention.
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