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

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

#31

Anyone else using Firefox? It doesn't appear to work very well in FF :(

interesting, ill test in a bit. The only javascript on the page is from twitch for its embed API, everything else is just some really basic html and server side rendering, so I'm curious what would be breaking

On my side, when I use `grid` instead of `table` for the `.row` style, the `min-height` of the video row is respected, otherwise it's disregarded for a reason I do not understand.

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

#32
post #2

Quite a nice idea, well done! Very minimalist and clean as well. Few pieces of feedback after playing with it for a few minutes- Not sure if I'm getting unlucky or the results are cached but quite a few of the streamers who popped up were offline. Using the twitch api under the hood I assume?

Ya due to the way getting acess to this works, theres a 10 minute cache of active streams that get expired in redis and a cron job pulls in a fresh list

Is there a reason for a 10 minute cache duration? Even 1 minute would be fine from a performance point of view

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

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ya due to the way getting acess to this works, theres a 10 minute cache of active streams that get expired in redis and a cron job pulls in a fresh list

Is there a reason for a 10 minute cache duration? Even 1 minute would be fine from a performance point of view

So I'm not hitting the api too much, this is going through a roundabout way to get this data

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

#34
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

interesting, ill test in a bit. The only javascript on the page is from twitch for its embed API, everything else is just some really basic html and server side rendering, so I'm curious what would be breaking

On my side, when I use `grid` instead of `table` for the `.row` style, the `min-height` of the video row is respected, otherwise it's disregarded for a reason I do not understand.

thats uh, weird. I'll look into that, thank you for digging into the issue.

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

#35
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On my side, when I use `grid` instead of `table` for the `.row` style, the `min-height` of the video row is respected, otherwise it's disregarded for a reason I do not understand.

thats uh, weird. I'll look into that, thank you for digging into the issue.

Simple solution: set the `min-height: 600px` on the Twitch `iframe` instead of on the `.embed` class.

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

#36
post #10

As someone who has periodically streamed, consider dropping a few chat messages when you land. Twitch's metrics are slow to update and it is not always clear when someone is watching.

As a streamer I would say that a streamer should never act as if no one is watching. Many viewers never feel like chatting and that's fine. And sometimes people will watch vods after the fact. For myself, I purposely disable the metrics so that my mood can't be affected by viewership numbers.

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

#37
post #6

Great concept for the winner take all world we live in now. It's very difficult to get your name out there in anything these days without having to invest a lot in marketing yourself.

I'm doing the cardinal mistake of not having clicked the link since I'm at work, but to build on your sentiment:

Is it binary between searching for 0 viewers and not 0If so I'd suggest implementing the option of searching for less than , so someone new actually can grow a bit from this tool before potentially taking off organically.

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

#38
post #5

We didn’t learn our lesson about cam roulettes last time around?

Honestly, if sites like omegle had just created a dedicated pornographic section, it would have drawn that audience away from what was otherwise a pretty fun experience.

Omegle does have a dedicated adult section. It doesn't stop people from joining the non-adult section and exposing themselves for reactions.

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

#39
post #15

Really cool idea. Thanks for sharing. I could totally see myself using this more if you added 2 options, language and game. Also interesting would be to display not only 0 streams but also streams with <10 viewers.

Ya I've heard similar ideas with regards to filtering, I'm gonna play around with that for sure. Thanks for the feedback.

Can you use the Twitch tags? That would be even more useful than simply filtering by games.

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

#40
post #15

Really cool idea. Thanks for sharing. I could totally see myself using this more if you added 2 options, language and game. Also interesting would be to display not only 0 streams but also streams with <10 viewers.

Ya I've heard similar ideas with regards to filtering, I'm gonna play around with that for sure. Thanks for the feedback.

filtering by game while obvious also means creating a filter bubble - it'd be nice if a you could choose just from 'unpopular games' :)
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