Can we talk about the Community Hub and how we're rolling that out?
TL;DRThe Community Hub preview covers Citizen Spotlight, Twitch streamers, podcasts, a link-sharing section and MVPs, with a first wave of invitees starting Tuesday and chat integration not included in the first drop.
So this is a preview of our Community Hub. When it launches, you'll see there'll be a menu option under Community. You will find the hub. And then we have a couple areas. Our first area is the Citizen Spotlight. Now, it starts off with staff picks, so the best ones get submitted, we'll do staff picks, and the first page will be populated here. Of course, you can see what everybody submits by clicking View All, and as you can see, we've already started to populate it with a couple things here. It's not open to many people right now. So you'll see what's hot. And of course, people have the option to upvote stuff. So you'll see what's hot, what's most popular, what's moving fast overall, what the highest upvotes are, things that are particularly brand new, and of course, staff picks.
So we're starting rolling this out on Tuesday, right? And are we doing it the same way we did?
Yeah. What we're doing is for the PTU rollout, we had a PTU first wave and a PTU second wave, and everybody still has those badges attributed to their accounts, so we're just going to use that. So on Tuesday, the folks who were in the first wave of PTU invites will have the first wave of Community Hub invites and they'll come in and start populating it with stuff and trying to break it for us. And we'll work with them and Turbulent and make sure we address anything that might have been overlooked.
That way we can make sure that this is in its best working order for you guys once we release it completely into the wild and there will be a minimal amount of issues so it's all sexy and you guys are happy.
And under Citizen Spotlight brings us to our next page, which is our Twitch streamers. You can register your Twitch channel, and when you go live streaming Star Citizen, you will populate here. So you'll be able to watch from the website. And eventually we'll have our RSI chat integrated. It won't be integrated in the first drop. We ran into some technical issues, but we're working on it. So you'll watch streamers there. There is a section for podcasts. So if you do a podcast, you can register a podcast and they'll be collected here. Kind of like that weekly Comm-Link that we put out, the schedule with our podcasts, you'll be able to find them here. And then Deep Space Radar is sort of our version of Reddit. It's where if you find a link to an article about Star Citizen or somebody's website about Star Citizen, INN stuff, whatever, you can post them here. Same thing with the Citizen Spotlight. One of the bugs we're trying to fix is the thumbnail integration at the moment. And then you can upvote and stuff like that. So basically it works just like the Citizen Spotlight. And then you'll be able to find MVPs. So like this week's MVP was Elton Gradash with the custom Star Citizen icons. And you can click on that and go directly to his forum thread. We've got our social integration here, so you can see our Twitter and Facebook. And Citizen Spotlight is good for videos and for image galleries. You can upload the images straight to our website, host them just like you could on Imgur, and there's no image compression. So it's really good for that. So you can put up your screenshot galleries and stuff like that. So that is the hub.