| Streaming History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start Year | End Year | DB Start Year | DB End Year | Driver Cam | Bus Cam | Notes |
| 2007 | 2010 | DB1 | DB4 | ustream.tv/desert-bus-drivercam | ustream.tv/desert-bus-buscam | Ustream (now IBM) has since deleted the saved video archive. |
| 2011 | 2011 | DB5 | DB5 | justin.tv/db_high - twitch.tv/db_high | justin.tv/db_bus - twitch.tv/db_bus | Started on justin.tv but moved to twitch.tv to avoid the international viewer limit |
| 2012 | 2012 | DB6 | DB6 | twitch.tv/db_high | twitch.tv/db_bus | - |
| 2013 | 2013 | DB7 | DB7 | twitch.tv/desertbus | twitch.tv/db_bus | Last year for bus cam. |
| 2014 | 20?? | DB8 | DB?? | twitch.tv/desertbus | - | Buscam was merged with main cam in DB8 |
| Chat location History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start Year | End Year | DB Start Year | DB End Year | channel | irc network | Notes |
| 2007 | 2007 | DB1 | DB1 | #BusCam | irc.ustream.tv | People were very confused that they weren't using the chat associated with the cam with the people on it. |
| 2008 | 2010 | DB2 | DB4 | #desert-bus-drivercam | irc.ustream.tv | DB Survivors started at the end of DB4, when everyone just decided to stay |
| 2011 | 2016 | DB5 | DB9+ | #desertbus | irc.desertbus.org | Used for the run DB5-7 & shut down during runs DB8+ |
| 2014 | 2016 | DB8 | DB9 | #desertbus | irc.twitch.tv | Announcement about moving to: Twitch IRC chat |
| 2014 | 2016 | DB8 | DB9 | #DesertBusBunker | irc.chatspike.net | Setup for slower chat and a place for main to live during the run, as irc.desertbus.org was shutdown during the run. |
| 2016 | 20?? | DB10 | DB?? | #desertbus | irc.chat.twitch.tv | Twitch chat re-architecture moved to new server set. |
| 2016 | 20?? | DB9+ | DB?? | #desertbus | irc.dbcommunity.org | Non-Offical community network setup post DB9 after desertbus.org server shutdown. |
| Poster(s) History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start Year | End Year | DB Start Year | DB End Year | Artist | Poster Type | Notes |
| 2007 | 2007 | DB1 | DB1 | Zack Finfrock | Crew Compilation | First ever poster image drawn for DesertBus |
| 2009 | 2009 | DB3 | DB3 | EpoCALYPsE | Run Events | First poster containing only events that happened during the run |
| 2009 | 2009 | DB3 | DB3 | Lunsford | Crew Compilation | First poster drawn by Lunsford (who would later become the default DB poster artist) |
| 2010 | 2011 | DB4 | DB5 | Lunsford | Crew Compilation / Run Events | Start of the inclusion of run events, but maintaining static crew positions at the start of the run. |
| 2011 | 2011 | DB5 | DB5 | Zack Finfrock | Sub-Event poster | Comissioned by Steve Dengler, poster of the Dengler & Butts: They Fight Crime sub-event from the run. |
| 2012 | 2014 | DB6 | DB8 | Lunsford | Crew Compilation / Run Events | DB6-8 posters were pure run events but specific people were guarenteed a spot. |
| 2015 | 20?? | DB9 | DB?? | Lunsford | Run Events | DB9+ the posters were pure run events only with no one requried to be on the poster. [Source] |
| 2016 | 2016 | DB1 | DB2 | Lunsford | Run Events | Lunsford went back and made run-events posters for DB1 and DB2 for the DB10 10-pack of posters. |
| Relevant Website / Software History | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Relevant DB Year | Software / Website | Description | Relevant Link | Notes |
| 2010-04-15 | DB4 | GoogleDocs | Google Docs Multi-user editing becomes avaliable | https://drive.googleblog.com/2010/04/a-rebuilt-more-real-time-google.html | This is the ability to have a collaborative spreadsheet. |
| ??2013-11-30?? | DB7+ | GoogleDocs | Bug Encountered by the DB7 VST team with the revision log | Unknown, link / bug report could not be found | Google Docs Revision log limit/bug raised past 1.7 million revision log entries. This being fixed prevented the VST from having to create a new spreadsheet mid-run during DB8 |
| 2014-06-25 | DB8 | GoogleDrive / GoogleDocs | Google Drive multi-user was added | https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2014/06/dedicated-desktop-home-pages-for-google.html | This allowed better organization of the VST spreadsheet archive |
| 2014-08-06 | DB8 | Twitch | Twitch adds overzeallous VOD muting | https://blog.twitch.tv/important-changes-to-audio-in-vods-35939b33ee2a | VOD muting (30 min per-detection) for an undisclosed list of "songs" meant the VST could no longer use Twitch's Highlighting system, and thus had to start using independent capture boxes. |
| 2017-03-07 | DB11 | YouTube | YouTube implements a secret 99 videos per-channel per-day limit. | https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35919708 | This prevented the VST from being able to finish uploading the DB11 run until Dec. 4 2017 (the run ended on Nov. 24) |
| 2018-11-09 | DB12 | GoogleDocs | GoogleDocs implemented a "feature" that prevented forumlas from running when 30+ people are in a spreadsheet. | Unknown, link / "feature" add page not found yet. | This broke the sheet transferring at the beginning of the run, all formulas were moved to transfer sheet to solve this. |
| 2018-11-10 | DB12 | Twitch | Twitch implemented a previously unknown 24 hour continous watch limit. | Unknown, link / "feature" add page not found yet. | This caused both wubloaders to miss Alex and Ash's entrance at nearly the same time since they both hit the limit within 30 seconds of each other. An entirely new wubloader was written to combat this problem, with custom HLS capture. |
| 2020-10-08 | DB14 | YouTube | YouTube removed the "Auto-add to playlist" feature (among other things) because ease of use is for suckers. | Archive.org link of Youtube documentation warning. | This broke the Day # playlist auto-generation as well as auto-add in to the RDP playlist, the VST had to write their own playlist manager to compensate. |