How Broadcast Chat Becomes Permanent Forum History

QCLF treats Broadcast video/audio as temporary media transport, but the Broadcast Topic and eligible chat Messages are durable forum history. When the session ends, the common live archive converter turns non-deleted Broadcast chat into permanent chronological replies on the same Topic.

The conversion is retry-safe and idempotent so a partial task run or duplicate worker does not create duplicate permanent replies.

The Topic Does Not Change Identity

The same Broadcast Topic URL exists before, during, and after the live session. Archive conversion changes the live lifecycle state and adds permanent replies; it does not create a second “recording Topic” or replace the original Topic.

Each Live Message Converts Safely

For each non-deleted live Message, QCLF creates or reuses one permanent reply keyed by the unique source live-message ID. The reply keeps the original author, text/rendered body, original live timestamp, source session/message IDs, and source_type=broadcast. Deleted live Messages are marked skipped instead of becoming permanent replies.

Related Context Is Preserved

Archive conversion copies live reactions and mentions where available, remaps live-message reports to the permanent reply, and can preserve source-media fields when they exist. Broadcast has no recorded Host media, so those fields do not become a replay of camera/microphone content.

Completion Is Retry-Safe

Each Message converts in its own transaction. Once no unconverted Messages remain, the archive service finalizes the session/Topic as archived. Retrying after a partial failure finds already-converted source IDs rather than inserting duplicates.

No Notification Flood

Archived live replies are historical conversion output rather than fresh user-posted permanent replies; QCLF’s archive path avoids treating the conversion as a burst of ordinary new-reply notifications.

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