| 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 livestream.com/desertbusforhope twitch.tv/db_high |
justin.tv/db_bus twitch.tv/db_bus |
Started on justin.tv, hit the international viewer limit, attempted to move to livestream which had a 1000 viewer limit, horrible quality, and constant ads, then moved to twitch.tv("tagging" the stream as "gaming") which avoided the international viewer limit Switch happened 2 hours 30min in to the DB5 run. |
| 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. |
| 2016 | 2016 | DB10 - Doc | DB10 - Doc | Lunsford | Multi-Year Run Events | Lunsford Lunsford created a multi-year event poster for the DB10 Documentary. Due to production delays these would not be mailed out until 2017-10-19. |
| 2021 | 2021 | DB15 | DB15 | mangledPixel | Sub-Event poster | mangledPixel created the U.S.S. Tucson for Night Watch's running Star Trek theme for the year. Which was the turned in to a purchaseable poster and playmat mid-run. |
| 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. |
| 2015-08-30 2015-09-08 |
DB9 | Twitch | Twitch implements a 48 hour stream broadcast limit. | Unknown, link / "feature" add page not found yet. | This limit just makes the streamer re-connect after 48 hours (really 47h 59m 50sec). Implementation of this "feature" happened between 2015-08-30 and 2015-09-08. This is almost assuredly in response to several Twitch Plays Pokemon VODs that were 193, 140, and 212 hours in length, and their VOD player messing up after a VOD is over 72 hours long. (The final 212 hour VOD starting on 2015-08-30, and 48h only VODs starting on 2015-09-08) |
| 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. |
| 2019-11-08 | DB13 | Twitch | Twitch breaks 3rd party stream viewing clients. | Github link for StreamLink on the issue. | This caused multiple people's captures to fail, and caused a mad scramble with the VST capture to fix the problem before the nodes had to re-connect after the next stream drop as this happened ~3 hours in to the DB13 run. |
| 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. |
| 2021-08-16 | DB15 | Python | Python 2.x's EOL started becoming a problem. | Github link for VST Wubloader on the issue. | Python 2's age & EOL meant things we use are no longer being tested for compatability which broke a lot of things, thus causing Ekim to port all the wubloader Python 2 code to Python 3, this took almost a month. |