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Re: Twitch's New UI Is Awful

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Post by giraffe_lady »

suzakus wrote: post #9
giraffe_lady wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are the majority of game-focused streamers "family friendly?" That's not the impression I've ever gotten from twitch or, frankly, from gamers. In a few dozen hours of online gaming I've been called more unprintable slurs than in the entire rest of my life combined.

The majority of streamers aren't slinging slurs, though a lot of the more toxic people also happen to be the more popular streamers. Not sure twitch cares about being family friendly though, sure doesn't seem like it based on their normal moderation decisions

Yeah that's the impression I've always had of it. Which doesn't really fit with OP's insinuation that the only thing preventing it from being generally family friendly is the "camgirls."

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Post by oriel »

imbnwa wrote: post #2

Twitch’s overall UX since I got into it has always seemed fundamentally about funneling you into a live stream as soon as possible and nothing else. If the entire Software and Gaming Dev community there kick off an alternative that would be such a great thing overall (does this exist?) but the big dev streamers would likely never make that sacrifice. Let Twitch be for gaming or whatever their current strategy is, but…

There's a concept that captured me, called Gruen transfer[1].

> the Gruen transfer is the moment when consumers enter a shopping mall or store and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, lose track of their original intentions, making them more susceptible to making impulse buys.

It started with shopping malls, later affected e-commerce, and now the media industry as a whole (specifically here with livestreaming).

Seems like we have hit peak distraction by design here too. Not sure this is a valuable term to rally around, but it definitely describes the modern woes of every platform and service.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_transfer

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Post by iaaan »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #4

I'm still sour about all the camgirls on Twitch to even know when it gets updated. Let me know when they finally clean up the website and it becomes family friendly again.

Genuine question: what is wrong with the platform having camgirls?

(I'm neither a Twitch user nor a camgirl)

Re: Twitch's New UI Is Awful

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Post by aPoCoMiLogin »

janice1999 wrote: post #6

Xtra still works on Android. Open Source and not ad ridden. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.andreyasadchy.xtra/ >Xtra for Twitch is a Twitch client focused on providing the best viewing and chatting experience on mobile devices: * Support for popular emotes with BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ plugins * Watch VODs and clips with chat replay * Download VODs to watch offline * Continue watching outside of the app wi…

how is that open source app is smaller but a lot of faster than the official app? never saw this app, thanks
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