The underrated replay feature

If you play the games on your own private server (disconnected from ubernet) then that would be one way to keep your replays private.

PA Stats now links to replays of all games it has. Even those that do not have a replayfile xD

Awesome, both for gameplay reasons and for machinima reasons

Talking about replays: I want replays to work even while the game is still being played.

This is a good point, and the training partner / clan practice situation is one that I hadn't considered. That's a valid use case for enabling an option to keep a replay private.

It's not currently scheduled, but I'm adding it to my backlog so it can get scheduled out. No promises of course, but I do agree this is something we should have on the roadmap.

I'm confused; do you mean you can't currently chrono-cam on a live game? Or that you want to have two PA instances running, one live and one unrelated replay?

I want to open PA Stats, click a currently running game and click a "start replay" link to watch the currently still running game. As a total stranger, not actually involved into the game.

Unfortunately replays aren't posted until the game is done. We do have plans to change some of the history system architecture to allow us to stream our history data to the replay file progressively (instead of all at the end), but that's mostly an internal matter as ultimately the replay data still has to make it up to our CDN, and that's a bulk operation, not really feasible for us to do on-the-fly. Replay files can get pretty big.

Ahhhhhh, those are siiiiiiiiiiiiiick! Thanks!!! The second one in particular has great composition. And I can't believe it, but it *does* kinda' look like the poster: just a lonely little British robot, struggling to retain his dignity in a hostile world. Spielberg would be proud.

And I just can't wait for us to be able to be actually rePLAY any of these. If I remember correctly that's the ultimate plan, right? RIGHT?

hmm, I guess the main issue is that replays are bigger than in FA, which had a pretty good working live-replay system.
No chance to stream data to a CDN? There are companies that do that, i.e. twitch somehow HAS to do just that.