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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.
Appreciate that the company's founder and leader is on here replying... Even if the OP.
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.
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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.
Only if you don’t start using all of the “lock-in” features like edge workers or page rules.
What exactly am i supposed to be excited about?
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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.
There's Cloudflare-stream[1] and also Mux[2]
[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/ [2] https://mux.com/
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 equ…
I haven't been beholden to a TV schedule in... ummm... about seventeen years, I think? 2003 sounds about right for my first TiVo. (I was fresh out of college and still affected by the bubble burst, I had to wait for them to come down in price quite a bit.) The only thing I watch live are the occasional sports program and SpaceX launches. Having an actual schedule certainly shoots my personal interest to zippo in this particular product.
If I can go back and watch things, which is not at the moment clear to me, then there's at least a possibility that I would become interested enough in some particular thing to tune in live. But if live viewing is the only option, you're never going to get my attention.
Details and rationale: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-cloudflare-...