LAPLACE Chat

Dashboard mode is for you, the streamer (or your operator, or the person behind the avatar): reading chat and thanking gifts and Super Chats while live. It is the other half of Using It in OBS — OBS mode is what the audience sees, dashboard mode is what you see

Opening the Dashboard

• Set up the room on the home page — the configuration is shared with OBS mode, so see Using It in OBS for the details
• Click Open Dashboard — the button sits at the bottom of the home page next to Copy OBS Link, and opens chat.laplace.live/dashboard/<room> in a new tab
• Monitor several rooms at once — separate the room IDs with commas, for example /dashboard/123,456

A Quick Tour

The dashboard is three panels side by side. Drag the separators between them to resize:

The toolbar across the top holds the search box, a date filter, the streamer's live metrics, and the Settings button on the right. Panel order and visibility live in the toolbar's layout menu, and Reset Layout puts everything back

Focus Mode, in that same menu, changes how a hidden panel disappears: instead of dropping out and reflowing the layout, it stays where it is and blurs

Day-to-Day Use

• Mark as read — double-click an event to mark it read. Turn on Hide Read Events (Alt + R) and the gifts and Super Chats you have already thanked drop out of the list, leaving only what you still owe
• Sort by price — the Super Chats and gifts panels can sort By Price, and can filter out anything under a given amount, so the big ones come first when it gets busy
• Card mode — in a room drowning in copypasta, switch to Card Mode (Alt + C), which merges duplicate danmaku automatically
• Search — ⌘ / Ctrl + F focuses the search box; see Search for the syntax
• Shortcuts — press ? for the full list, or see Keyboard Shortcuts

Keeping the Browser From Suspending the Tab

The dashboard receives events over a long-lived WebSocket connection, and both Chrome and Edge save resources on background tabs. At best they throttle the page's timers to roughly once a minute, which starves the connection's heartbeat and leaves gaps in the event stream; at worst they unload the tab entirely. What you notice is a stretch of missing danmaku when you switch back, or a connection that has quietly died

Add chat.laplace.live to the exclusion list as follows

Chrome

1. Open chrome://settings/performance
2. Next to Always keep these sites active, click Add
3. Enter chat.laplace.live. Written without a scheme it matches subdomains too

Edge

1. Open edge://settings/system and go to System and performance → Performance
2. Under Always keep these sites active (Never put these sites to sleep in older versions), click Add site and enter https://chat.laplace.live. Alternatively, turn Automatically put tabs to sleep off entirely
3. Turn off Energy saver (Efficiency mode in older versions). It shortens how long a background tab waits before sleeping, and it greys out the sleep timer setting

Beyond the Exclusion List

The exclusion list stops the tab being unloaded, but it does not stop timer throttling. For the connection to stay genuinely reliable, the browser also has to consider the page visible:

• Give the dashboard its own window — a tab that is not the active tab in its window counts as hidden, even if the window itself is on screen
• Do not minimize that window, and do not let another window cover it completely — Chrome and Edge both treat a fully occluded window as hidden. A second monitor works, and so does leaving a sliver of it showing

Related Links

• Using It in OBS - Putting the widget on the stream
• Card Mode - A different way to read a busy room
• Search - The dashboard's search syntax
• Keyboard Shortcuts - The full shortcut list
• Archives - Exporting and importing dashboard events
• Login Sync - Keeping usernames in the dashboard unredacted