I hope they let others place ads on it. Then it will be real "TV."
Cloudflare TV
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Re: Cloudflare TV
#22Details 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 a…
> 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.
Who do you think gives purchase approval for Cloudflare services in an organisation?
Re: Cloudflare TV
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 a…
> 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. Who do you think gives purchase approval for Cloudflare services in an organisation?
that's why it's underwhelming. its best case scenario is a marketing channel, not a revolutionary new distribution channel, which is what i would have expected from a company like cloudflare.
Re: Cloudflare TV
#24at 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 expecting a video streaming CDN so anyone could build a Youtube/Twitch competitor without having to deal with storing, transcoding and (live)streaming video. I vaguely remember AWS offering something like this. Not sure how much money there is in this market but definitely sounds like a great product fit for someone like Cloudflare.
Re: Cloudflare TV
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What were you expecting?
I was expecting a video streaming CDN so anyone could build a Youtube/Twitch competitor without having to deal with storing, transcoding and (live)streaming video. I vaguely remember AWS offering something like this. Not sure how much money there is in this market but definitely sounds like a great product fit for someone like Cloudflare.
Well, we did have to build that in order to build this. So… possible we'll expose more of that in the future. One step at a time.
Re: Cloudflare TV
#26Seems 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.
One of AWS' most important services is CloudFront.
Re: Cloudflare TV
#27at 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?
Not parent, but I thought it were a TV stream that filmed Cloudflare teams solving problems. Similar to the documentary[1] "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks" where they show the life of interns developing an actual product at Fog Creek, the first paying customer, bug fixes, etc.
I appreciated that one, as I did "Code Rush"[3], an embedded documentary following people at Netscape in 1998, even shows the moment Jamie Zawinski bringing the source code and uploading it, or moments where they needed Apple to greenlight using proprietary code, trying to reach Steve Jobs, and ending up implementing it.
Another one I liked was "Downloaded", a documentary about Napster with the main people (Sean Fanning, Sean Parker, Ron Conway, etc.)[4]
PS: Since you're here, I was unable to log to my CloudFlare account for more than a week, reset my password an everything, but always couldn't log in until a couple of days ago. I would have wanted to see a video on the background of the issue and how it was resolved : )
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRL7YsXjSg
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark%27d:_12_Weeks_with_Ge...
Re: Cloudflare TV
#28at 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 kind of hoping for a place where people could broadcast live music concerts. (An alternative to YouTube and Twitch.)
Re: Cloudflare TV
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
What were you expecting?
Not parent, but I thought it were a TV stream that filmed Cloudflare teams solving problems. Similar to the documentary[1] "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks" where they show the life of interns developing an actual product at Fog Creek, the first paying customer, bug fixes, etc. I appreciated that one, as I did "Code Rush" [3], an embedded documentary following people at Netscape in 1998, even shows the moment Jamie Z…
That's an interesting idea. Will suggest to the programming team. Probably tricky while we're all working from home. But… maybe in the future.
A mini version of that is a show that John Graham-Cumming, our CTO, is going to be hosting weekly:
https://cloudflare.tv/schedule/3RbW4iJZAbfN9OetUovuQ2
"Join Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming as he interviews Cloudflare engineers and they discuss a 'war story' of a problem that needed to be solved — and how they did it."
Re: Cloudflare TV
#30got 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
Call me cynical, but I think they're choosing not to fix some stuff on purpose. If they fixed it, their news personalities would look less "in the trenches". If the video has flaws similar to what viewers themselves experience when they try to make Zoom work, then it helps the news media cultivate a relatable "we're all in this together" feeling.
It has become its own cinematography / production style just like the shaky cam style is used to make documentaries feel more authentic or action movies more chaotic.