FelixOnline/FelixOnline — Issue #40: Varsity Live Feed
Author: jkimbo
Created: 2012-03-06 12:44:27+00:00
State: open
Labels: Feature, Future

Indy has inquired whether it will be possible to have a live blog type feed for the upcoming Varsity matches. I think that it is very possible and would love to do it. Hopefully we can structure it in such a way as to enable future live blogs about anything. However it would be easiest if we do this on the new backend structure so that means deploying it as soon as possible. @lsproc

Some thoughts:

* Will be on a single page (possibly with a widget on front page and sports page)
* Can either use polling AJAX requests or pushing with Node.js and Socket.IO
- Prefer using Node.js and Socket.IO as using it for Elections Stats and the server won't get hammered
- Will have to run Node process on my server since dougal doesn't have it
* Needs to show current scores as well
- This will be specific to varisty feed only
* Needs different types of post
- Normal commentary
- Quotes
- Score update
- Weather
- Twitter