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Hello! I work on the video platform @ twitch. We’ve been working a lot on that issue. Viewer count numbers should be significantly faster today and will get eve

Hello! I work on the video platform @ twitch. We’ve been working a lot on that issue. Viewer count numbers should be significantly faster today and will get even more responsive soon!

ben509 6y ago
I'd be interested in a short note on what made it slow / what makes it fast.
raziel2p 6y ago
As a viewer I'm not sure I'd like this happening but for smaller streamers, a notification/message telling you that a viewer has joined or left might be useful.
- arkitaip 6y ago
  Please don't. I would avoid certain stream if I knew they were told that I've joined/left because I do that quite frequently without saying anything and don't want to come across as an asshole.
  - pietrovismara 6y ago
    It's kinda the same reason why I don't watch stories on Facebook. I don't want people to automatically know I watched their stories.
    - industriousthou 6y ago
      Is this a thing? A quick Google search just turned up articles about detecting if someone sees your profile, which of course they can't. Seems weird.
      - pietrovismara 6y ago
        It doesn't show preofile views, but as far as I know it shows who watched your stories.
  - mikekchar 6y ago
    I don't know about other streamers, but I, for one, expect people to hang out for about 5-15 minutes. I do a coding stream, so it's bound to get boring :-) I'm always amazed when people hang out for the whole stream. People are busy and it's wonderful if they just pop by to see what's going on. At least in my stream, I'm always very happy to see someone say, "Hello. Just stopping by. Can't stay!" It's incredibly gratifying.
- zapzupnz 6y ago
  It's already possible by viewing your Twitch chat via an IRC client with certain IRCv3 capabilities requested. It's not actually that useful, though; sometimes users can be chatting away but there's no record of their presence either via a JOIN message or their name in the user list because these are cached rather than shown in real time.
bryan_w 6y ago
Oh joy, more background JavaScript
flgr 6y ago
Having spent a lot of time working on making the backend compute this with very low latency, you wouldn't believe how happy finally seeing this become a reality on the actual site would make me. :) Thank you /a lot/ for working on this!
mikekchar 6y ago
Thank you! As another small viewer base streamer, that will be quite helpful. Although, if nobody is around, I just natter on like always because there is always someone who will want to have a peek at the VODs.

Hello! I work on the video platform @ twitch. We’ve been working a lot on that issue. Viewer count numbers should be significantly faster today and will get even more responsive soon!

ben509 6y ago

I'd be interested in a short note on what made it slow / what makes it fast.

raziel2p 6y ago

As a viewer I'm not sure I'd like this happening but for smaller streamers, a notification/message telling you that a viewer has joined or left might be useful.

arkitaip 6y ago
Please don't. I would avoid certain stream if I knew they were told that I've joined/left because I do that quite frequently without saying anything and don't want to come across as an asshole.
- pietrovismara 6y ago
  It's kinda the same reason why I don't watch stories on Facebook. I don't want people to automatically know I watched their stories.
  - industriousthou 6y ago
    Is this a thing? A quick Google search just turned up articles about detecting if someone sees your profile, which of course they can't. Seems weird.
    - pietrovismara 6y ago
      It doesn't show preofile views, but as far as I know it shows who watched your stories.
- mikekchar 6y ago
  I don't know about other streamers, but I, for one, expect people to hang out for about 5-15 minutes. I do a coding stream, so it's bound to get boring :-) I'm always amazed when people hang out for the whole stream. People are busy and it's wonderful if they just pop by to see what's going on. At least in my stream, I'm always very happy to see someone say, "Hello. Just stopping by. Can't stay!" It's incredibly gratifying.
zapzupnz 6y ago
It's already possible by viewing your Twitch chat via an IRC client with certain IRCv3 capabilities requested. It's not actually that useful, though; sometimes users can be chatting away but there's no record of their presence either via a JOIN message or their name in the user list because these are cached rather than shown in real time.

bryan_w 6y ago

Oh joy, more background JavaScript

flgr 6y ago

Having spent a lot of time working on making the backend compute this with very low latency, you wouldn't believe how happy finally seeing this become a reality on the actual site would make me. :) Thank you /a lot/ for working on this!

mikekchar 6y ago

Thank you! As another small viewer base streamer, that will be quite helpful. Although, if nobody is around, I just natter on like always because there is always someone who will want to have a peek at the VODs.