Perhaps you can add a check to see if the stream is behind a login/agegate? I pushed the random button and got a stream that I was locked out of.

ill check, I honestly didnt even know that was a thing, thanks for letting me know

What about https://nobody.live/?

also neat! never heard of it, seems like we have a bit different ways about browsing similar data. very cool site

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.

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

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.

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

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”.

I mean if they are streaming to no clients, is there actually video being transmitted?

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

do you think they get a blank check for AWS resources?

honestly not sure, but it would explain how they can keep it running

Well, I know a year (or 3?) Back they changed their retention of long videos, my guess is to lower storage spend.

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.

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.

Similar in spirit to IMG_0001⁰, IMG_0416¹, and astronaut.io² for YouTube but live on Twitch!

⁰https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308547

¹https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314547

²https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772

Check out a cool real time feed of people discovering new streamers here: https://twitchroulette.net/discover

And some neat global stats around twitch streams here: https://twitchroulette.net/stats

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.

ya it's why I have the default set to 0-5, theres weirdness in what twitch counts as a viewer

Old discussion has lots of comments too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114103

There are some soundcloud and mixcloud versions that might need inventing ...cool concept!

i am actually even more impressed that you got this to front page

did I do something wrong or something

Not that I can see. I think most on HN root for the underdog.

Next up: HackernewsRoulette

this is pretty dope !!

was the only viewer to some guy playing far cry

"Twatxh Loulette"