posted by Moose

ADVERTISING:

Where did the countdown go?

How does the feature work?

We had a cool and prominent countdown on the top left of the joinDOTA website. Sadly it had to be shrunken and moved to the right side due to its single focus on just one commentator. We needed more space to feature more than just one commentator. We decided to come up with this nifty little tool that shows when joinDOTA commentators (TobiWan & Epi for now) are live as well as all the other talents out there.The "Live & Upcoming" feature tool should be quite easy to use and understand. Below we have listed all key features that explain it briefly. The rest is for you to find out.It´s quite simple: If one or more commentators are assigned to a match, it will appear in this tool. If there are no commentators assigned, you will be able to find the matches in our matchticker as usual, just a little bit further down.Commentators that are known are already set up in our list and in the future, they can assign themselves to a match (if they have rights) by going into our match details. This way, they will automatically appear on our front page all the way at the top. We hope to give all existing and new commentators a greater exposure this way.For now, we have approached commentators personally to give them website rights so that they appear in our livestream list, but in the future, we would like to handle this differently. In the next days we will release comprehensive information on how to apply as a commentator so that you can appear on our front page as well.We hope that this tool will give you much easier access to all our favorite commentators as well as more information to the individual coverages and matches.The tool itself is not 100% finished yet. We will release a few more features around it in the next days (streammer assign button, streamerlist in the overview, streamerlist in the match details etc.).Let us know your thoughts on the tool in the comments below or in our forums. We are always happy to hear what you guys think so we can keep improving it over time.Stay tuned for more features to be released! ;)