New OPEN Studio post!

[jenjen@mastodon.art]

New OPEN Studio post!

A new livestreaming Era begins!
My Owncast Era!

https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/2025/12/19/its-a-new-era-my-owncast-era-livestreaming-news/

#owncast #livestream #stream #twitch #livestreaming

[jenjen@mastodon.art]

Thank you for 84 followers over on my owncast already!

[jenjen@mastodon.art]

So... Theoretically.. Could I use this image as a background image for my livestream when it's offline? By the magic of custom CSS?

Right now when you go to https://live.jenniegyllblad.com it's just my offline message and nothing else.

[brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk]

@JenJen background-image should do the trick: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/background-image
The hardest part will probably be to work out where to store the file and get the URL right.

[jenjen@mastodon.art]

@brunogirin Thank you! I'm gonna test it and see what happens

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@JenJen @brunogirin

Potentially relevant https://owncast.online/releases/owncast-0.1.0/ mentions an "Offline Banner" and https://owncast.online/docs/appearance/ also mentions the id #offline-banner to customize the element.

[jenjen@mastodon.art]

@oblomov @brunogirin I tried copy pasting some simple CSS things (I know nothing about CSS), and it didn't work -- And then I noticed it actually didn't support CSS - It was just supporting "Markdown syntax" - So a background image may have to wait!

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@JenJen @brunogirin I think that might be where you customize the message that appears when you're offline, maybe?