Hey yo -
Yesterday we rolled out an update that addresses one of our community’s biggest pain points: global login. With this fix, it’s now easier to watch Sponsor content on all our sites – including Rooster Teeth, Achievement Hunter, Funhaus, ScrewAttack, and The Know – without having to log in on every single site. Facebook logins actually work now, too. It's Zuckerbergarific.
This update also fixes a previous video queuing issue, which means you can now add videos from all of our sites to a single queue. Huzzah!
This is one of many steps we’re taking to improve your experience on all of the Rooster Teeth sites. Even the ones with Gus. This is a huge priority throughout the rest of the year. As always, we appreciate your feedback. Your input is what enables us to design the sites you want.
Speaking of improvements...
Thursdays Are Getting Awesomer
As we grow and continue adding new shows to our roster, we have to occasionally take a step back and make sure our schedule is functioning like a well-oiled machine, or at least as well as a Spanish-speaking robot with well-lubed nuts. With the Day 5 premiere coming up on Sunday, June 19 (hell yeah!), now seems like the perfect time to move some of our usual Sunday content to a new day.
Starting this week, you’ll notice some new activity at 11:00 a.m. CT on Thursdays. That spot will now be home to RT Life and the Sponsor Vlog. Episodes for each show will be posted every other week; there will be a new RT Life this Thursday, May 26 (Fridays for the public), and the next Sponsor Vlog will go up on Thursday, June 2. The schedule for those shows will repeat in that pattern from here on out.
Thanks, and as always please leave us any and all feedback. Unless you are Gus.
Comments (52)
Calae
1 year ago
Will sponsored content ever be available on the Roku? I just got a Roku 4 and I'd love to be able to watch Theater Mode from it. <3
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AlexMattias
1 year ago
Are you ever going to fix the problem where we don't get image notifications?
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AlexMattias
1 year ago
Fuck off spam!
+1 Funny
KI77Y Coffee Eyes
1 year ago
thanks for your hard work! can't wait to see what's next.
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Phatnaru
1 year ago
Awesome! I was wondering when you guys were gonna fix that. Now the only thing I'd like, is the ability to comment through the mobile app.
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frannies
1 year ago
I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but I'm unable to get into the "sponsors only" section of the RT store. I get a login screen, then a "invalid multipass" error.
Super excited for Day 5!!
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Fizz
1 year ago
Awesome. Excellent some site issues are being adressed. Hopefully many more will follow this year. Starting with an update on Gus.
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Yohoseph
1 year ago
Great stuff. I love being able to filter videos in the recently added tab. It even saves your choices for when you leave or exit. Thanks for the update RT staff.
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Gibben
1 year ago
is Chromecast ever going to be possible. I can watch all your free content on my TV but the stuff I pay for must be watched on my tiny phone screen.
+1 Ditto
magiblue
1 year ago
matt has rooster teeth left fullscreen?
+1 Ditto
RWBimbie Keeper of Poems
1 year ago
Any chance the GROUPS: RTPodcast:ForumTab
will show posts from this year instead of 5-6yr dead threads?
RTPodcast is a kinda popular thing, right?
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oxguy3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
1 year ago
Thanks for the update Matt, great to hear about work getting done on the website. One super important tiny request I have: Let us see the exact time when a video/journal/comment/etc was created. Right now, you can only see a relative time (e.g. "8 months ago", "10 minutes ago", etc), which becomes very unuseful for finding the precise date when something is months or years old. If the precise time (i.e. "May 25, 2016 at 3:37pm") were visible somewhere (perhaps if you hover your mouse over the relative time?), that would be super useful
+3 Ditto
nowplayingbl First Generation Fan
1 year ago
Totally agree. But also: matt #1
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NotSoSpeedRuns I am Monster Truck
1 year ago
Nice work! One small thing I'd like to see added: add fields for twitch channel, youtube account, and twitter to the profile creation, alongside the existing fields for xbox gamertag and steam account. A lot of people on this site are also streamers and youtubers, or at the very least use those sites to access Rooster Teeth content and engage with the community.
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keenan_s13
1 year ago
now all we need is a playstation app so we dont have use the shitty web browser app on play station
+2 Ditto
cirediew
1 year ago
More Gus videos please
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PrincessKing dragonfriend sans slayer
1 year ago
PRAISE BE TO GLOBAL LOGIN
AND ALSO DAY FIVE AT LAST YESSS
+1 Cool
jessty104 Not a Hanzo main
1 year ago
Yay! Are there currently any plans to fix the selectiveness for videos that appear on the app? I primarily use the app but sometimes I come on the site and notice that there are videos up that don't appear on the app. I know a few other people who are having this problem.
+1 Cool
StormRaging
1 year ago
Love that global login is fixed now! Next we need to get an app for PS4 and X1 so I can more easily watch my sponsor only content!
+1 Ditto
imintheh0le
1 year ago
loveit but is there a fix for the app not allowing login in
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DavidtheWavid
1 year ago
Aaaaand... When's Fanservice coming back?
+3 Ditto
RSav
1 year ago
Can we get the countdowns back on the beginning of videos? I know it's really small and insignificant but they were a nice touch that I loved on the old site. Super excited for all these new shows popping up these next few weeks!
+3 Ditto
Kjata1013 Goofy Bafook
1 year ago
Thank you for listening! And I love you guys. :
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camcabbit
1 year ago
Now if we could watch videos in html5 instead of flash, that would be nice.
+9 Ditto
rookie2014
1 year ago
Just wondering if there is any way to get the videos uploaded before the site change updated given the HD options so we can go back and watch old videos (such as some of the old sponsor plays) in glorious High Definition
+3 Ditto
willhelm_55 Flamingo King
1 year ago
Jeezums in a blanket wrapped in BBQ sauce! THE QUEUE WORKS! now all we need is an auto play feature :D <3
+1 Zing!
datfrojo
1 year ago
Hey please fix that every site now has "Rooster Teeth" active at the top. It hurts my OCD.
+1 Ditto
Count3D Site Admin
1 year ago
Thank you, Matt. Always greatly appreciate your updates.
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zillionjape Your best frenemy!
1 year ago
Awesome to hear. I always found it weird, like I thought it was bugged or something why it always logged me out.
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AlexanderMBush
1 year ago
So the moral of this post is simply "Fuck Gus, let us love all of you!!"?
Can't wait for more RT Lifes coming along the way!
+1 Funny
shaynaenae
1 year ago
Gus is getting bloody rekt omg
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BrownTheCatTree
1 year ago
Yay! Just waiting for chromecast support
+1 Ditto
TsarNickyII
1 year ago
Excellent! It's tedious when I'm using my phone because I have to clear all my stuff frequently due to space issues. The best part of this is more Gus.
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AndrewPatroclus Butt Pirate
1 year ago
sweeet, ive been waiting for the global login for awhile, hell yea
+2 Ditto
tanukivilla
1 year ago
This is the fourth or fifth time since this feature was introduced that someone from the RT staff (usually Adam) has told me that Global Logins are fixed and bug free. Maybe this time it'll be for real.
+5 Ditto
Gafgarian
1 year ago
This time it is a shift to subdomains, by nature these are much less complicated. Very unlikely there will be issues going forward with this as you are logging into a central auth now instead of trying to jump the auth across various domains. The way it is done now, is the same way Google handles it. It is more easily scalable and more secure.
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adam Director of Technology
1 year ago
@Gafgarian is right. We were doing some extremely complicated stuff before, and after several months of fighting with it just decided to go under a single domain.
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Emily
1 year ago
Really the only way to improve the sites with Gus is to remove Gus.
+5 Zing!
Chinote
1 year ago
When will people that don't have high speed internet be able to watch shows on the site instead of having to use youtube or watching a video every 5 minutes in 30 second bursts because the new video player only buffers 30 seconds of video at a time?
+8 Ditto
UberSky Inexplicable
1 year ago
Nice to see the global login fixed but it's a pity that all of the sites had to move to subdomains of the main RT site. Evidently that was a necessity to get it to work but it must suck for the tech team to have to take a step back like that.
+2 Ditto
Lamkia
1 year ago
YES, this fixes at least one of the more annoying problems with the site, thank you so much dev team!
But, there are still quite a few places that could see some improvement (some examples being no notifications for image uploads, no notifications about image comments, other things) and I look forward to see the team tackle those areas as well, especially with RT pushing for sponsorship so much. Perhaps the site could benefit from a bigger dev team?
+3 Ditto
BoilingKoolaid
1 year ago
Will it be possible to have the annotations work on the videos on the website? At the end of the videos I will see something I want to check out, but it doesn't let you click on it.
+2 Ditto
gi_goku Keeper of Tacos
1 year ago
Glad to hear it was for a fix
+1 Cool
PinkPortrait Misses WDYK
1 year ago
I am so glad. It is so annoying switching from channel to channel.
I'd like to see the dashboard button moved to somewhere easier.
I don't even know if tags work.
What if people go a badge for posting in the forums once? It would encourage people to come back and might reignite their passion. Also everyone would be on around the same times. I'd give it like a 3 days.
+1 Cool
asurmen
1 year ago
How high of a priority is it to move away from the flash player and going with the html5 player (like it was on the beta site)? 95% of RT's content I watch on Youtube because the html5 player allows for watching videos at 1.5x and 2x speed (because there's so much content to watch).
+1 Ditto
Gafgarian
1 year ago
The speed changes are specific to the player source. Youtube obviously isn't using the JWPlayer source for the playbacks. I'm not sure JW has an option for speeding up playback at all, but if they do, it would be a parameter change to get that working,
As for a permanent switch to HTML5, I think the answer that is more about deliverability than anything else. Flash isn't the most secure or speediest but since it uses a standardized "codec" it is more easily managed and easier to provide support for. Plus it is a single encoding for every video as opposed to encoding an MP4, h.264, webm, flv, etc... that is needed to ensure that all users on all browsers are able to access a source video for playback.
NOTE: I'm not RT, just have dealt with some of the same issues with my own job
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wade22 2-4-1-10
1 year ago
Thanks for focusing more attention on the site, I constantly see great suggestions by people but they rarely turn to reality.
+3 Ditto
PhoenixTyphoon
1 year ago
Does that mean the schedule will be changing format due to the Animated shows getting released differently because it's kinda hard to tell when it's released for those signed up to the website but not a sponsor?
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Joe Eighty7/RT Radio
1 year ago
Interesting points on the website experience here: http://roosterteeth.com/post/51265578
+3 Ditto
LadyOddDuck
1 year ago
Joe pls ;p
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Joe Eighty7/RT Radio
1 year ago
nooooothing going on here.... :p
+1 Funny
TheRTV Round Peg in Square Hole
1 year ago
Nice Job to @Adam and the whole tech team! I know the site is the main focus, but I still really believe that if the app was more built out with comment and community functions, you would see a huge increase in active RT usage.
+8 Ditto