alecgdouglas

When I "follow" a forum thread it would be nice if I had the option to get notifications when any post is made in that thread.

I'm currently "following" my thread about the GB Enthusiast app but I only get notifications when someone @-replies me directly, which means every now and then I need to manually check to see if I've gotten any more feedback or comments.

Super minor thing but honestly I'm not sure what the "follow this topic" button does at the top of threads. I looked through my notification settings and didn't see anything that sounds like it's related to this functionality - under the "Something I follow is updated" section there's only settings for "A new show has been published".

@ltgrimdark: I've had a number of requests for this functionality so I jumped at the chance to implement it when support was added to the API for live streams. Enjoy!

@mister_v: Glad to hear it worked for you, thanks for the feedback!

Version 1.12 has been released. This includes a handful of changes but the most exciting one is definitely live stream support.

Keep in mind that the live stream support is still fairly early, so expect it to have a few rough edges. It's been a little difficult to test properly since I work during most regular GB live streams but I managed to write most of it using test streams from other sources (e.g. Apple) and took some time off last week on Friday to make some more improvements and do some testing on a real GB stream.

A "Live!" row will be added when a live stream is in progress and it should automatically find the best quality for your bandwidth, but you can manually select a quality (i.e. a "track") by pressing the menu button on your remote while watching the stream.

This support is only for GB hosted streams and does not include Twitch or Youtube streams - you'll have to use the Twitch or Youtube apps for those.

Let me know if you run into any problems and please be as detailed as possible in your reports - thanks!

@diachron: You'll have to drop the last forward slash: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation

Is it actually blocked? I get that 24 hour warning a lot on giantbomb.com/api during development (despite only using a single API key) but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Are your requests failing?

However, it might be a bit different from your situation since it seems to come and go pretty frequently (i.e. I'll refresh the page 5 minutes later and it's gone).

@fireworksordie: Hey, no worries! I've got a couple other Shield users beta testing it for me. Sorry to hear about your streaming problems!

I'll add local downloads to my list of things to look into, but it might be a while before I get to it. Thanks for the suggestion though.

@szlifier: Getting a bulk list of saved progress would be great. Something like http://www.giantbomb.com/api/video_progress/?api_key=<USERS_API_KEY> that returns a list of all videos (just the IDs would suffice?) that user currently has progress for and the progress for each video.

@paliv: Thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to let me know you're enjoying the app :)

The latest version (1.08) has been published to the Amazon App Store. See updated top post for patch notes + APK link.

@crackity_jones, @baag: Thanks for your interest - I submitted the app to the Play Store (beta channel) last week but it's stuck at the moment. The app approval team over there think I'm impersonating Giant Bomb and have suspended my account but I've got top men (Rorie) on the case. I'll let you know when I have any updates for ya.