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

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Post by VectorLock »

glacials wrote: post #65
eterm wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach. I'm not recommending that, it's something that Twitch are hotter about catching and banning these days, but it has meant that there has been an entrenched set of "big streamers" for some time now with less ability to break in. Really the only way is to be playing a game for a while that suddenly gets big so you can b…

> Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach. I'm sorry but this is not true. There have however been perception issues around viewbotting. One such: For most of the life of host mode when a small stream would get hosted by a big stream, nearly all of the transitioned viewers would stay (through inaction) in the host's channel. Many would be AFK. The small str…

Sounds like from your description host mode is essentially Twitch driven viewbotting.

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

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Post by fenwick67 »

glacials wrote: post #65
eterm wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach. I'm not recommending that, it's something that Twitch are hotter about catching and banning these days, but it has meant that there has been an entrenched set of "big streamers" for some time now with less ability to break in. Really the only way is to be playing a game for a while that suddenly gets big so you can b…

> Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach. I'm sorry but this is not true. There have however been perception issues around viewbotting. One such: For most of the life of host mode when a small stream would get hosted by a big stream, nearly all of the transitioned viewers would stay (through inaction) in the host's channel. Many would be AFK. The small str…

> > Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach.

> I'm sorry but this is not true.

How can you possibly claim you know that most big streamers never used bots or bought views? None of them would ever tell a Twitch employee if they did. If you had the capacity to detect all bots then there would be zero botting on the platform, which is certainly not the case.

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

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Post by mumphster »

mrspeaker wrote: post #60
mumphster wrote: post #51

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Nope, whats your viewing setup? OS, browser, device, etc? Still iterating on this from yall's feedback as we speak.

I had the same thing - Firefox on Mac. The video area was 920px wide, but the video player was only 250x150px. Also, I went to leave a comment on the stream and it asked me to log in. After jumping through the reset-your-password stuff and logging in I came back and tried to comment again (after refreshing). It said "you aren't logged in" (even though I am) and popped up the twitch homepage instead of the login box.…

beautiful, thank you. I think this is the same css issue around twitch's embed iframe that someone else reported earlier. I'll try to get a fix up after I get off work today. Thanks for checking it out!

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

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Post by VectorLock »

the_duke wrote: post #13
mumphster wrote: post #3

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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

If you are not already, you could use the GraphQL API that the web app uses, which provides sorting by viewers ASC. That would allow for much more up to date results than iterating the full list with the official API. Not sure how happy Twitch is about external users, but it can be accessed quite easily with some tinkering.

Hopefully they're cool about it. Typically companies like this frown upon ersatz API usage and cache/rehosting of their data.

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

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Post by jason0597 »

formalsystem wrote: post #45

twitch is one of the platforms where I feel like I've struggled the most to get viewers. just playing my main game like Dota wasn't too productive since I'm not a pro or super hot so my value proposition there isn't too compelling. Instead I've been trying to focus more on streaming myself programming and learning new scientific or game programming libraries and have been enjoying it quite a bit. My viewer count is v…

That's interesting! I would watch it

What's your Twitch name?

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

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Post by glasenator »

artursapek wrote: post #70
Nursie wrote: post #67

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I'm kinda surprised there was a "before" in that situation. I presumed that was what was going tonhappen from the get-go. Perhaps I am too cynical.

You'd think with the state of machine learning these days someone could have another go at it, and ban users who show their dongs

Not Hotdog

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

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Post by Demiurge »

m1aw wrote: 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.

If you want searching by game, or other categories, like creative, without seeing the most populated streams, try this:

https://www.streamkick.com/browse

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

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Post by hassaanm »

I made a similar site as part of a hackathon at Twitch: https://twitchraids.com

The idea is to raid random channels together with everyone on the site. Channels are randomly selected and rotate every 5 minutes, and the channel selection function gives preference to smaller streamers. Users vote on which channel to raid next.

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