Technology

Twitch is trash. Everywhere I've been, 1080p isn't stable. As soon as I switch over to youtube, 1080p works fine. And their stupid "loading stream UwU" screen when loading it on another page is just annoying.

It also misses the absolutely basic feature or scrubbing - I can't rewind or click back to a previous point in the stream - no. For that, the stream has to have recording activated, then you need to know of /videos on the streamer's page, and finally you can open the "recording". And because it's a recording, you can't "go to live". It jumps back to the very beginning of the stream when it gets to the end "end of the recording", which is whenever you opened it --> opened it 1 hour ago? Once it hits that point again, (no, not live - 1hour but live - 2 hours), it reloads and now you have to remember that it was live - 2 hours.

It's just shit.

Makes sense from Twitch's perspective. A few streamers signed non-exclusive contracts to stream on other sites. Twitch's old policy was preventing those streamers from also streaming on Twitch at the same time, so they were losing tons of views. Now they get those people back.

I thought that was allowed like a year or so ago. But I guess when they forbid it, it turned out to make less profit, so now they are back to before.

Lol I didn't know I couldn't simultaneously stream. I'm not really a "streamer" but I did stream in the past using multi streaming tools to a bunch of different platforms simultaneously.

FINALLY!!!!!

Ok cool, but they've done this once before, for all of a few weeks. Hopefully this time they don't reneg or impose specific conditions.

Now, can we please have a better codec for twitch? Sure I have NVENC now, but eventually Im going to have AMD card, and I want good codec support on Linux.

EDIT: looks like there is a condition: no chat merging... Really?

So can you have a censored twitch stream and an uncensored concurrent stream on your website?

Or like, follow the twitch guidelines and if you want a short segment of 18+ just put a text box like 'too hot for twitch, subscribe on our website or wait for the twitch stream to continue'

Gamer girl with a clean live stream on twitch, but watch it both on twitch and on separate website for an under the table camera POV.

Unless that device is Roku

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Big names like xQc, Amouranth, and Nickmercs have signed major deals with Twitch competitor Kick this year; xQc’s and Nickmercs’ deals are non-exclusive, and given that Amouranth has a video on her Twitch account from a couple months ago, it seems hers is non-exclusive, too.

(He dined with Twitch CEO Dan Clancy earlier this month and seems pleased with Friday’s news.)

“To further protect our streamers, we’re adding doxxing and swatting to the list of Off-Service Conduct behaviors we will enforce against,” the company says (emphasis Twitch’s), and the changes are in effect as of Friday.

Guest Star, which lets streamers host co-streams with others, will now be named Stream Together and will be getting features like the ability to merge chats.

Twitch says a version of its TikTok-style Discovery Feed that surfaces live channels is in testing.

And Twitch’s own alerts system for notifications like subscribers and Bits donations will “soon” support a streamer’s custom animated emotes.

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