also neat! never heard of it, seems like we have a bit different ways about browsing similar data. very cool site
flowgrammer 2 hours ago [-]
Great idea. One of my saddest projects was making a site to help Twitch streamers get sponsorship for playing games. You automatically got picked if your view count was high enough. I saw thousands of people streaming on Twitch by themselves for weeks with no viewers whatsoever. Surely many of them had families and partners, but I'm also sure many did not.
AlphaTheGoat 33 minutes ago [-]
Great idea for when you bored and want to discover new twitch channels.
Just a suggestion: it would be better if you can ask the user what their preference is and then suggest accordingly.
ellg 22 minutes ago [-]
check out the +filter button on the homepage!
lovehashbrowns 2 hours ago [-]
really fun! already found an MLB stream, someone streaming Age of Empires 1 no talking and chat in emote mode, someone going absolutely crazy on a racing game I think multi-streaming with their audience primarily on YT. and now I'm on a BG3 playthrough I'm pretty sure.
JohannesCortez 2 hours ago [-]
Great concept! Brought me to a girl playing COD. She only has me as a viewer.
She thanked me so I stayed for a while lol
password4321 4 hours ago [-]
Similar in spirit to IMG_0001⁰, IMG_0416¹, and astronaut.io² for YouTube but live on Twitch!
I will never understand how Amazon hasn't shuttered Twitch yet. Dan Clancy is totally ok with his contracted streamers constantly live streaming terrorist training videos. I guess the adpocalypse only came for YouTube and never Twitch.
ellg 3 hours ago [-]
no comment on the political bits, but the fact that 80% of twitch is streaming to themselves cant be cheap to run
I do wish they would revamp their discoverability process
tuveson 1 hours ago [-]
Twitch gets a big cut of individual creators’ subs, and I’d bet most people that stream also sub to other channels. Keeping people in the ecosystem is probably worth it, even if there’s some amount of “freeloading”.
operatingthetan 2 hours ago [-]
I mean if they are streaming to no clients, is there actually video being transmitted?
ellg 2 hours ago [-]
youre still encoding to like, 4 different formats and pushing bytes to a cdn for 80k+ streams in real time. I think the actual serving of hls chunks is the cheap part
cwillu 1 hours ago [-]
Transcoding is only guaranteed for twitch partners, and the cdn doesn't actually distribute the video to a given datacenter until at least one viewer using that datacenter requests it.
ellg 50 minutes ago [-]
ya but 99% of streamers have their stream up in their dashboard or on a side monitor, so its always going to be sending and transcoding something
nefarious_ends 2 hours ago [-]
do you think they get a blank check for AWS resources?
charcircuit 57 minutes ago [-]
It's important that they have a proper budget and pay near the sticker price that way they can play accounting games to make Twitch look unprofitable.
ellg 2 hours ago [-]
honestly not sure, but it would explain how they can keep it running
whaleofatw2022 2 hours ago [-]
Well, I know a year (or 3?) Back they changed their retention of long videos, my guess is to lower storage spend.
For anyone who is curious btw: twitch will count you as your own viewer. So anyone with their own chat open in a browser (almost everyone so they can read it) will have that 1 viewer. Which is why the bottom of the distribution is so weird looking.
ellg 3 hours ago [-]
ya it's why I have the default set to 0-5, theres weirdness in what twitch counts as a viewer
nosmokewhereiam 3 hours ago [-]
There are some soundcloud and mixcloud versions that might need inventing ...cool concept!
my first one was junk essentially. I don't even think the host was there.
They said they were streaming music videos, which is already questionable.
Instead they were streaming an interview with a music artist.
saadn92 21 minutes ago [-]
Can we make a version for YouTube as well? I'd love to be discovered haha
jaequery 3 hours ago [-]
i am actually even more impressed that you got this to front page
ellg 3 hours ago [-]
did I do something wrong or something
password4321 3 hours ago [-]
Not that I can see. I think most on HN root for the underdog.
She thanked me so I stayed for a while lol
⁰https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308547
¹https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314547
²https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772
I do wish they would revamp their discoverability process
And some neat global stats around twitch streams here: https://twitchroulette.net/stats
was the only viewer to some guy playing far cry