VODs

How it works

The VOD library is a per-game collection of gameplay recordings members share. A member adds a VOD by pasting its link (YouTube, Twitch, Streamable, Medal, Kick, or a Google Drive file shared with anyone who has the link) in one of three places:

• /vod add in the game's commands channel. Qutie then offers the events you were in, to link the VOD to one.
• Add VOD on your profile, in the game's tab.
• Add VOD on an event's VODs tab, for an event you attended, which links it to that event.

Anyone can pull VODs back up with /vod random: one to ten at random from this cycle, or from an event you pick, handy for review.

A member's record is on their profile, in the game's tab, and that is where a member lands when they open VODs: the VODs they added, and a strip with one square per cycle, green when they met it, amber when they fell short, red when they uploaded nothing, grey when nothing was asked. Hover a square for its dates and uploads.

Upload cycles

VODs are set up on the VODs page's Settings tab, which the game's admins see. The Announce channel is where reminders and the cycle's summary go; without one, no cycle runs. The Commands channel is where members run /vod (empty, the game's own commands channel).

On its own the library is free-form: members post whenever they like. Turn on Required uploads and VODs become a recurring requirement: every cycle (daily, weekly, every other week or monthly, resetting on the day and time you pick in the server's timezone) each member owes a fixed number of VODs, or a share of the roster's events that cycle (rounded down: 50% of 3 events asks for 1), and Qutie tracks who has and who has not.

• Event-linked only: only VODs linked to an event count, if you only care about recordings from actual raids. Unlinked uploads stay on the member's record.
• Asks for none when there were no events: a share of events asks for nothing in a cycle without events; this does the same for a fixed number.
• Older events can be linked: members may link a VOD to an event of an earlier cycle. It counts toward the cycle it was uploaded in.
• Only these roles and Except these roles choose who owes VODs: with roles under Only, just the members holding one of them do; a member with an Except role owes none, whatever else they hold. Everyone else can still upload, and is shown as not required, with no reminders or strikes.

Before a cycle ends Qutie pings members who still owe one in the announce channel, at each reminder's day and time (such as Saturday at 20:00, the day before a Sunday reset). A reminder stays on its day and time when you move the reset, and one that would land after the reset is marked, since it never sends. When a cycle ends it can give a VOD-miss strike for a miss (the same strike system as attendance) and post a summary, which can ping the members who got one.

Settings are the game's. With more than one roster, each roster can switch on Own settings to get its own cycle, requirement, channels and reminders, or turn VODs off for that roster altogether, so one team can be held to VODs while another is not.

The Uploads board

The Uploads tab shows how every member of a roster stands: this cycle's progress, the VODs they uploaded (click one to watch it), how they did in the last eight closed cycles (a square each: green met, amber short, red missed, grey nothing asked; hover one for its dates), the cycles they missed in all, and their strikes. It follows the roster picked in the top bar. Pick an earlier cycle in its toolbar to see that cycle as it closed. A game admin opens a member's profile from their row.

Officers (game admins, or roles with the game's VODs permission) can remind one member (by DM, or a ping in the announce channel when DMs are closed) or everyone behind, pause the running cycle (no reminders or VOD-miss strikes until it is resumed), give or remove a strike from a member's row, and delete a closed cycle with everything it produced. A strike given on a closed cycle belongs to that cycle. Leads of a lead group with VOD access see the board narrowed to their own members, to watch, not to act.