Twitch

“If they ruin those aspects I'll probably quit going there.”

“They'll send me an e-mail with my username in it but won't send me the password reset e-mail.”

“I'm assuming they check for Flash support, and somehow that trumps everything else they use to identify the browser version. Pretty pathetic, honestly.”

“The state of this Amazon-owned streaming platform is wild”

“If we'd have asked them to opt in, they wouldn't have opted in”

“they were too preoccupied with can we do it instead of should we do it”

“giving themself the right to train on all streams, with an opt-out (at least in the EU), but only an opt-out”

“Twitch is different story, platform ads certainly play there”

“the entire culture is infantile and lowest common denominator”

“Twitch and Discord meanwhile feel remarkably unaffected compared to their counterparts”

“Foreign internet content companies (like Twitch) got iced out a few years ago too”

“I was blown away that they allow that kind of thing on their platform”

“Isn't twitch or YouTube live the obvious sort of way?”

“It's nearly impossible to grow on Twitch without viewbotting”

“Random people drop in and start talking to you. Very cool.”

“It's been nice to just have it on while co-working.”

“Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is a monster of a company.”

“Dan Clancy is totally ok with his contracted streamers constantly live streaming terrorist training videos.”

“whose ads have invaded my sightline one time too many”

“if they let you pay $0.50 to get rid of the ads, then their ad audience instantaneously turns into "people who do not have $0.50 of disposable income"”

“They squeeze as hard as they can, and then some to hit those quarterly numbers.”

“They don't specify who gets the "better experience" (hint: it is them, harvesting the ad dollars)”

“the people running Twitch just seem to be LARPing the idea of running a business”

“it stopped being about people playing games and became discount reality TV”

“Yeah, I'm sure this won't drive massive adoption of ad blockers or anything.”

“watching on Twitch is a better experience”

“I hope that Discord, Twitch and Snapchat will die soon after introducing verification of adult persons.”

“k-ID is (at first glance) extracting fairly similar data from Snapchat, Twitch etc.”

“Twitch.TV, an old favorite of mine, now routinely takes 10+ seconds despite having Amazon money behind it.”

“Twitch is an unbiased third party record of date/time/work”

“or watching it on Twitch in a way that was interesting”

“if I show ads, more traffic is then driven to my channel. That fundamentally compromises my content IMO.”

“Both YouTube and Twitch have increased the amount of ads they serve over the last 5 years, not decreased.”

“Twitch lags and adds useless fake engagement fluff like bits and thrives”

“Twitch works overtime to drive people to spend as much time on streamers, which isn't good for either side.”

“It has not been primarily gaming for at least +5 years.”

“Pipeline to OF... And gambling... And extremist views on both sides”

“absurdly socially manipulative twitch and other social oriented platforms have become”

“Twitch problem is not just parasocial... possible to get stalked.”

“than something like Twitch which gave him constant problems”