Roku Direct Publisher

[joshwho]

Why is everyone going along with this and not mad? Direct publisher works like a charm, why are we going backwards on this tech? Now I have to learn how to convert all channels I have to SDK and need a physical device to do these modifications. This is not good at all and seems to me a way to cut a lot of people out of the Roku Network. This is a very cruel stance and I hope the company changes their minds on this sunset thing. Direct publisher is genius and should not be the thing that goes away. This really pisses me of that it is being talked about, without getting anyone's opinions on how this will affect them. 

There is no reason to discontinue Direct Publisher, what is it hurting being there? What is stopping Roku from moving forward with this? 

There is no extra cost or anything, there is no support staff, what could possibly be the real reason why to do away with it? 

Please for the love of god do not get rid of "Direct Publisher"!!

[phlume]

Hey @joshwho I can appreciate your enthusiasm, but i'm sue the true reasons for the EOL are much bigger than us not wanting to learn the programming. The system with DP has been problematic for 4+ years with their feed system, the errors, system outages in general, etc. Having been through the wringer with DP I am actually pleased to se them sunset it. Perhaps my understanding of programming makes the transition a bit easier than some, but it is still a wide open platform for us to develop and roll out content with.

[joshwho]

but why not leave it for people that have no issues with it and continue on with the new thing without disabling it. It makes no sense to be to disable something that works  for me just because it doesn't work for you. That is bogus. 

[phlume]

Again, the system *may* work for you currently, but as a whole it has been problematic for a vast majority of users over the last handful of years. I have a feelign the band-aids and duct-tape they had holding it together is starting to create larger failures that are non-repairable. If it trully worked entirely as expected, I am certain they wouldn't sunset it. There HAS to be systemmic reasons for the closure.

[joshwho]

ll then, they should let me figure how how to make it better instead of doing away with it. I bet I can make it better. 

[joshwho]

We suppose to be moving to cloud everything, not going backwards to a SDK app store. This is wrong. The SDK is on its own thing has no interference with DP so to me it makes no sense to do away with it. I will have to recode everything with my platform just for this change now which really pisses me off, we just finally worked out all the feed errors and how to make it flawless and now they want to dump the project. 

[ferdiworks]

Looking forward to try your tool and see if it can help us with our feed file!

Thank you and kudos!