Where to find Floatplane Club progress/updates?

[DocShay]

Hey everyone,

 

I'm unable to find one on the standard (non-floatplane subform) forum, but i'm wondering if there is a thread posted somewhere we can see any progress to Floatplane Club? I'm an ex-vessel user and plan to subscribe to floatplane - If/When an app becomes available. I don't watch a lot of videos from my desktop - and navigating forums to watch videos on mobile is more of a pain than I would like to deal with.

 

Is there any updates out regarding when such an app will become available? I caught the tail end of the latest WAN show live where they spoke about it briefly - I missed most of it though. The YouTube upload did not include this conversation either.

 

Thanks

[themctipers]

if theres no plans for an ltt forums mobile app, then i doubt there will be one for floatplane.

 

less people use floatplane than use the forums.. 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, DocShay said:

Hey everyone,

 

I'm unable to find one on the standard (non-floatplane subform) forum, but i'm wondering if there is a thread posted somewhere we can see any progress to Floatplane Club? I'm an ex-vessel user and plan to subscribe to floatplane - If/When an app becomes available. I don't watch a lot of videos from my desktop - and navigating forums to watch videos on mobile is more of a pain than I would like to deal with.

 

Is there any updates out regarding when such an app will become available? I caught the tail end of the latest WAN show live where they spoke about it briefly - I missed most of it though. The YouTube upload did not include this conversation either.

 

Thanks

There aren't any progress threads, but that sounds like a good idea.

[ProjectBox153]

I have Floatplane, and you do get updates that are FPC exclusive about things like the office, the mezzanine, and the new website. I'd say go for it if you don't have it yet. 

[mpsparrow]

The progress thread is basically the weekly WAN show. They usually always spend a few minutes either talking about or answering questions about Floatplane.

[DocShay]

5 minutes ago, themctipers said:

 

 

less people use floatplane than use the forums.. 

More people spend money on floatplane, than people do on the forums. Also from my understanding they are trying to make Floatplane into a place other content creators can use as an early-access place for their subscribers. I doubt LTT are trying to make such creators merge to the LTT forums to upload videos.

[themctipers]

Just now, DocShay said:

More people spend money on floatplane, than people do to use the forums. Also from my understanding they are trying to make Floatplane into a place other content creators can use as an early-access place for their subscribers. I doubt LTT are trying to make such creators merge to the LTT forums to upload videos.

iirc they are trying to make a seprate website for floatplane itself, untangling it from LTT forums. they want to make it like vessel but for LTT only I guess. 

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

iirc they are trying to make a seprate website for floatplane itself, untangling it from LTT forums. they want to make it like vessel but for LTT only I guess. 

I won't give too much away, but yes, they are working on a new website just for Floatplane. It's not going to stay as a hidden subsection of the forums forever. And the web design they've shown us pilots so far looks great. I can't show it here, but it looks really good. 

[DocShay]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

iirc they are trying to make a seprate website for floatplane itself, untangling it from LTT forums. they want to make it like vessel but for LTT only I guess. 

Thats what I thought - Hopfully the website is mobile friendly or they release an app. Then I shall sign up.

 

I miss vessel. A lot. I'm wondering what Verizon gained from buying out Vessel? They haven't launched anything or seemingly done anything with it - What was the point?

[DocShay]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I won't give too much away, but yes, they are working on a new website just for Floatplane. It's not going to stay as a hidden subsection of the forums forever. And the web design they've shown us pilots so far looks great. I can't show it here, but it looks really good. 

Are you able to say if your experience thus far using a mobile browser has been good or not?

[themctipers]

Just now, DocShay said:

Thats what I thought - Hopfully the website is mobile friendly or they release an app. Then I shall sign up.

 

I miss vessel. A lot. I'm wondering what Verizon gained from buying out Vessel? They haven't launched anything or seemingly done anything with it - What was the point?

hey look we have money fuck you !

 

2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I won't give too much away, but yes, they are working on a new website just for Floatplane. It's not going to stay as a hidden subsection of the forums forever. And the web design they've shown us pilots so far looks great. I can't show it here, but it looks really good. 

no matter how much you tease me with how great floatplane is, im not getting it
^{unless i become staff on ltt forums, then i get floatplane for free}

[ProjectBox153]

4 minutes ago, DocShay said:

Are you able to say if your experience thus far using a mobile browser has been good or not?

It's not been demonstrated as an actual working site yet, but rather a design image. It looks just like a full webpage, but is just an image. I believe it should scale pretty good. 

4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

no matter how much you tease me with how great floatplane is, im not getting it
unless i become staff on ltt forums, then i get floatplane for free

Ha, good luck with that. It is really good though. I mean, come on. We get ad-free, downloadable videos early? Yeah, I'd say that's worth it. 

[themctipers]

2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

It's not been demonstrated as an actual working site yet, but rather a design image. It looks just like a full webpage, but is just an image. I believe it should scale pretty good. 

Ha, good luck with that. It is really good though. I mean, come on. We get ad-free, downloadable videos early? Yeah, I'd say that's worth it. 

ublock origin

i dont care about downloading the video, what am i going to do, archive all of ltt's videos?

i dont care if its early,  i still get to watch it. unless there's a hiatus on videos getting released on youtube and being exclusive there for a stupid amount of time (>2 weeks), then .. well thats bullshit.

[givingtnt]

2 hours ago, DocShay said:

Hey everyone,

 

I'm unable to find one on the standard (non-floatplane subform) forum, but i'm wondering if there is a thread posted somewhere we can see any progress to Floatplane Club? I'm an ex-vessel user and plan to subscribe to floatplane - If/When an app becomes available. I don't watch a lot of videos from my desktop - and navigating forums to watch videos on mobile is more of a pain than I would like to deal with.

 

Is there any updates out regarding when such an app will become available? I caught the tail end of the latest WAN show live where they spoke about it briefly - I missed most of it though. The YouTube upload did not include this conversation either.

 

Thanks

Outside the FPC : 
right now there's nothing
after the wan show, in the after party, they talk about the FPC project and whats coming up / answer questions users have
 

Inside the FPC :

there is 1 post made about the website with a picture of what it may / will look like
and its basically the only update so far
there are updates on the LMG construction zone thing (Mezzanine updates) though that is not related to FPC really, its just a couple exclusive 5 min videos.

Here's what we know :

• there is a website (though you can't do anything yet on it)
• there may or may not be an iOS / Android app, perhaps just a mobile friendly website (basically like the forum right now)
• the back end is what they are working on the most right now (like I said, we can'T see anything functional yet 
• if you sign up now you can stream up to 1080p 30 fps without problems (mostly) from the forum directly
  and you can download videos in up to 1080p resolution (doesn't mean you can re-publish them)

thats about it.

[givingtnt]

38 minutes ago, themctipers said:

less people use floatplane than use the forums.. 

believe me, that will change

 

 

[themctipers]

Just now, givingtnt said:

believe me, that will change

 

 

yes

 

someday i might get floatplane (for free obviously, leech off of someone/something) 

[ProjectBox153]

1 hour ago, givingtnt said:

• if you sign up now you can stream up to 1080p 30 fps without problems (mostly) from the forum directly
  and you can download videos in up to 720p resolution (doesn't mean you can re-publish them)

Only download up to 720p? This looks like it says 1080p to me...

[givingtnt]

13 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Only download up to 720p? This looks like it says 1080p to me...

woops yes, I will fix my post, I completly dun goofed on that one.

 

[rattacko123]

2 hours ago, DocShay said:

I miss vessel. A lot. I'm wondering what Verizon gained from buying out Vessel? They haven't launched anything or seemingly done anything with it - What was the point?

The same reason fitbit bought pebble. Which would be to remove potential competitors and gain Intellectual property.

[DocShay]

3 hours ago, rattacko123 said:

The same reason fitbit bought pebble. Which would be to remove potential competitors and gain Intellectual property.

Pebble and Fitbit I can see as competition - But how would Vessle be a competitor to Verizon - Verizon doesn't offer anything close to what Vessel was.

[LogicalDrm]

There probably will be FPC app in future, but much, much after platform launch. They already have fulltime coders for FPC platform, unlike they have for forums or LMG. There aren't any definitive progress listings, its more like few posts here and there + WAN Show to keep us informed.

 

8 hours ago, DocShay said:

Pebble and Fitbit I can see as competition - But how would Vessle be a competitor to Verizon - Verizon doesn't offer anything close to what Vessel was.

 

They got technology and employees who are experienced with running streaming platform.

[redteam4ever]

They talked aboutFloatplane a lot in last two afterparties, you can still wtach them on Twitch:
Last afterparty - July 8, 2017 (1:39:32)

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