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"[streamer] is streaming" not shown in tournament description during live streams
Exact URL of where the bug happened
https://lichess.org/tournament/5eAZjyBR
Steps to reproduce the bug
- join arena tournament OR team battle
- livestream lichess tournament on Twitch with lichess.org in the title as an approved lichess streamer
- wait for sufficient time for lichess to detect the stream
What did you expect to happen?
I expected to see the text "[streamer name] is streaming" in the arena description box
What happened instead?
this text "[streamer name] is streaming" was not visible while I was in the waiting room, waiting for pairings but was sometimes visible when in games in the same arena.
Operating system
windows 11
Browser and version (or alternate access method)
Chrome Version 135.0.7049.115 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Additional information
there have been some recent changes to how the chat box and tournament description are displayed, including a toggle between showing mainly chat and showing mainly the tournament description
this problem first happened for me on 20th April in the most recent ChessMood 20-20 GP https://lichess.org/tournament/CMQ20Apr I could not see that any of the streamers were streaming, and there were a lot of streamers, since it was a streamer battle.
I could not see that anyone was streaming with the chat toggled to mainly show the arena description or with it just showing the chat box.
when I checked after the stream and tournament ended, it showed I had been live streaming, and also, I was listed on the lichess streamer list as having been recently live
i did fix an issue related to the tournament description page streamers but it sounds like what you're describing is much worse. not sure what was going on the 20th.
the problem i fixed was streamers disappearing from the tournament page when their recently played game ends.
I took the photo above with my phone camera since I was streaming at the time and couldn't do a normal screenshot without it being visible on stream. The strange thing was that when I was in-game, I could see the orange text "QRM is streaming", but not when I returned to the main page/waiting for a pairing as in the picture here.
I toggled the chat/description but none of the streamers were visible on either view.
https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/pull/17446
the online streamers list is part of the page download. it's not updated dynamically like broadcast streamers menu. is it possible that multiple streamers had recently finished a game and temporarily "disappeared" at the same time during chessmood, causing anyone who fetched or returned to the tournament page during that window to show them as offline?
it seems unlikely that all streamers would disappear at once but this is the best explanation for what have happened i've got. the hide description control may have coincided with chessmood but it doesn't look like the cause here.
the streamers did not disappear, they were never there, even long after everyone started streaming.
however, when streaming in a recent arena, it was back to normal.