Our second huge change is something that you won’t really notice. We’ve put enormously amounts of work into something that you will never discover. Doesn’t sound very smart does it? Well, you would eventually have noticed for sure if we didn’t do this! This restructuring of how Twebcast handles big amounts of participants, events, projects and data will make your events totally scalable and reliable. So hit us with thousands of simultaneous events with large audiences!

Have you heard of GDPR 2.0? Or does it only exists in the Twebcast world? Since May 25th all Twebcast users are covered when it comes to handling and storing personal data. And now here comes the next version of this, making the way to use Twebcast as a participant more smooth and powerful. You don’t need to remember any passwords to access your account. Just verify who you are through your email/phone number for every device you use and Twebcast will automatically remember you, your settings, your choices to make it easy to discover, register and interact will all events.

Ok so those were three groundbreaking new things that won’t really add anything to how you can build your projects. Now, yes we also have added a bunch of new functionality accessible for every events. How about automatically creating recurring events, bundling them into one sign up, adding waitlists and possibility to invite guests, scheduling when registration and login to an event should open and close, scheduling push notifications and emails, accessing events with codes from the app and so much more. Kind of a very brief brief right? We’ll get back to you with more details about how you can use this. But it’s already there so dive in and try it!

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Samtidigt som vi implementerar denna stora förändring har vi även väsentligt förbättrat sökfunktionen (CTRL/CMD + P), så man nu kan söka i alla projekt/moduler/settings samtidigt. Lite som en universell sökfunktion. Mycket användbart för power-users, speciellt om man har många och stora projekt. Har du inte använt den funktionen tidigare föreslår vi att du testar den nu!

En annan nyhet är att du kan välja att spara (CTRL/CMD + S) eller kasta ändringar. Denna funktion är nu också visuell i form av ett meddelande som talar om att du har osparade ändringar.

Som alltid vid större förändringar vill vi ha feedback! Tveka inte att kontakta oss om du undrar över något eller har synpunkter.

Logga in och testa! Har du inget konto? Kontakta oss så ordnar vi det!

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We have extended Twebcast with support for as many screens you want. This opens up for a totally new way of running events. Maybe you want an image collage as an interactive backdrop at your event? Or maybe you have an audience discussion shown on a second screen? Or a green room screen connected to the main room? Or maybe you want to show a mirrored screen of your ongoing event on your intranet or at a webpage? Anything is possible. Every screen can be connected anywhere, or if you prefer, any screen can be connected everywhere.

We also support total control for every singel connected screen via our control panel. On top of this we can also offer the “follow” option. This makes it possible to program an event with e.g. an A and a B screen. Let’s pretend that you want to show the questions on screen A and at the same time show the realtime results on screen B. If you set screen B to follow screen A and then step “Next” screen A will move to the next questions while its connected results will be shown at screen B.

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All modules before the authorization module will automatically create a one pager web site for the participants. You can also choose to integrate modules in the meny. This open up the possibility to create a really fancy registration web pages.

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One primary example is that an audience upload a selfie, for example, at a social event and the participants photos will appear in a collage on a large screen at the venue. Our image features can also work with instagram or twitter but the main case is that customers want to upload images within a private Twebcast event.

Using my iPhone 7+ an image will be 12Mpx, although pretty heavily compressed. So it will weigh somewhere around 1.5 to 4MB.

This is the original and it is uploaded to our image-server. After that we need to:

• Rotate based on EXIF.
• Create a resized version where width or height cannot exceed 1200px (large version)
• Create a crop of 1000x1000px that can be used in e.g. image collage
• Create a thumbnail with existing proportions for use in our moderation panels and chat flows etc.

We have used the imagemagick wrapper graphicsmagick for node. The above operation with above mentioned iPhone image would take somewhere arround 4–7 seconds in total.

The best way to create a quicker and more flexible solution is to utilize AWS Lambda. Serverless function in the cloud featuring almost unlimited scalability. However.. this requires a lot of code rewrite not to mention lots of devops work.

SOO…

I stumbled upon Sharp http://sharp.dimens.io a great alternative to graphicsmagick which is more focused around resizing, rotating, cropping and pretty simple color/channel adjustments. A simple npm install..

It is blazing fast compared to graphicsmagick.

The above mentioned image processes that took between 4–7 seconds with graphicsmagick will take no more than 1 second with Sharp. Thats a 4–7 times increas in speed by just replacing which NPM modules we use for the same work.

Best of all is that the code we had to change was minimal. write() is toFile() and suchforth. It took maybe 1.5 hours in total to do the switch.

For our clients this means that we can have much larger audiences uploading photos with a near realtime experience!

The next step is to move image handling over to AWS Lambda for a “serverless” setup where we will be able to have a much more flexible handling including storage and scaling.

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