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Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by throwaway13337 »

sullyj3 wrote: post #198
toyg wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, no. At the beginning it was mostly random people. Unfortunately, you need very little to ruin things - most normal people will not play even with a 10% chance of getting a dong, and the more “normies” leave, the higher that chance gets, in a vicious circle.

The dynamics here reminds me of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...

That's an interesting blog post.

As an aside, I've noticed exactly what the author mentions in it happening in hacker news recently - there is a shift in politics to less tolerance. I've reduced my own viewing because of it.

I suppose it will just re-enforce that lack of tolerance.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by kawsper »

ryeguy_24 wrote: post #23

This was so much fun to test out this morning. Most streamers who saw me come in were so excited to have a viewer. Nice idea.

Yes - I said hi to a few, and had some nice conversations as the only viewer, brilliant idea.

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Post by davedx »

lemiffe wrote: post #75
davedx wrote: post #64

Screw it I'll give this a try! Streaming right now :) https://www.twitch.tv/redskyforgeradio

Great stream! Except for the intermittent glitches due to 4g... but the mixes were great, keep up the good work!

Thanks! Next time I’ll run a cable outside :)

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Post by industriousthou »

pietrovismara wrote: post #166
arkitaip wrote: post #141

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Please don't. I would avoid certain stream if I knew they were told that I've joined/left because I do that quite frequently without saying anything and don't want to come across as an asshole.

It's kinda the same reason why I don't watch stories on Facebook. I don't want people to automatically know I watched their stories.

Is this a thing? A quick Google search just turned up articles about detecting if someone sees your profile, which of course they can't. Seems weird.

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Post by tripzilch »

geddy wrote: post #179
beshrkayali wrote: post #86

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the question is, would it be possible to implement something like that in a way where dong shows don't take over? What is it exactly that turned chat roulette into that?

First and foremost, upon returning to this thread after a few hours, I’m stoked how many people I got to say the word “dong”. Anyway. Nowadays it would probably be easier than ever to detect certain shapes? I don’t know, we have artificial intelligence that can detect all sorts of things, male genitalia probably that hard to detect.

They could have Snapchat-like filters that turn it into something innocent

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Post by macspoofing »

arkitaip wrote: post #142
macspoofing wrote: post #118

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It's not an issue of discovery. There's just too much out there. No matter what algorithm you choose, you will leave out the vast majority of other streamers. And YouTube isn't any better. In fact, it's going through its own mini-drama with even established YouTubers seeing their subscription counts going down and blaming YouTube for it, when in reality, there are just too many people creating content.

It really is about discoverability, though. On Youtube, everything is about producing enticing videos and if you do a great job, the algo will favor you even if you are a small channel. Youtube search plays an important part in all of this. On Twitch, the unit of interest is the live stream and that is much more difficult to produce content around. It also makes finding interesting streams challenging because search…

Discoverability matters much less than you think because discoverability is a zero-sum game. If the algorithm favours one type of creator, it necessarily means that it takes 'it' away from another - so the more creators you pile on, the harder it is for any one of them to breakthrough - regardless of how awesome your discoverability algorithm is.

There are some caveats. If the audience is growing relative to the number of creators, you (on average) still have a chance. YouTube also has a huge audience and wide variety of content (much more than Twitch, which is heavily focused on video-game streaming), so it's possible that there are some niches that can still be exploited in a way that you couldn't on Twitch, which is heavily focused on a small number of niches.

None of that takes away from the larger point - it's a race to the bottom when trying to be a viable creator, and the probability of building a big-enough audience to make enough money to even partially support yourself is very very low.

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Post by igrekel »

mikekchar wrote: post #190
igrekel wrote: post #138

Every now and then I look at thi. I enjoyed watching people coding now and then, I find its a good way to improve my set up when I am on a new technology. That being said, I find it extremely difficult to find streams of people coding. Maybe that exist but I'd like something where I can pick a platform of programming language or type of dev. I know there are a few tags like this on switch but there are almost no resu…

Look in the "Science and Technology" section. It took me forever to figure that out.

I did try that but still get tons of people apparently streaming games. Also I don't seem to get that many results. Also it would be nice to be able to classify things by language, platform etc.

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Post by pietrovismara »

industriousthou wrote: post #204
pietrovismara wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kinda the same reason why I don't watch stories on Facebook. I don't want people to automatically know I watched their stories.

Is this a thing? A quick Google search just turned up articles about detecting if someone sees your profile, which of course they can't. Seems weird.

It doesn't show preofile views, but as far as I know it shows who watched your stories.
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