Not being allowed to merge chats with third-party tools is fucking stupid. No matter what changes Twitch makes that are positive they always put some fucking ridiculous caveat on it.
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.
If you weren’t an affiliate or partner (the only way to monetize through twitch itself) you could stream on other platforms
affiliates had an exclusivity contract for new content e.g. you could only stream on Twitch but could upload the vod to YouTube. Earlier in the year they changed the rules slightly to allow simultaneous live streaming to mobile platforms e.g. TikTok. Seems like they’ve expanded it again now that they’ve realised exclusivity was hurting discoverability
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.
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.
I’m pretty sure this only concerns twitch affiliates. Multistreaming was always allowed for non-affiliates.
That makes sense
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Unless that device is Roku
Gottem
Genius big honker move.
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.
I love how the replies are so offended that sex workers exist. Real progressive, folks.
People don’t want a livestreaming platform to be a funnel for camwhores. There’s already too much pornographic material on twitch. I don’t care if you are a coomer who needs porn to live, but keep it away from normal content please.
Then don’t watch pornstar streams? Seems easy enough to avoid.
If you want to watch porn, go to a porn site. Porn is not allowed on twitch, the only way these streamers survive without being banned is because they tow the line of what is explicitly sexual. Abusing a loophole basically.
Again, don’t watch them if you don’t like them. If they’re not breaking the rules, then they have every right to be on the platform as anyone else. It’s not like your favorite streamers are suddenly doing porn on the side, right?
Pornographic streams are actually against the rules on twitch. You can read them here https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Community-Guidelines?language=en_US
We’re not talking about pornographic streams, though.
Not everyone shares your views of “progress”
That’s gross dude
I didn’t say it’s my thing I’m just saying if it’s allowed it’ll happen.
I don’t watch live streams at all honestly.
But can you not imagine like, someone doing standup and having a button they can push to pause the twitch stream while the 18+ joke continues on their website. Then when it’s done the twitch stream unpauses?
Sounds like a win honestly
I didn’t say it’s my thing
Kinda specific, talking about an undertable camera for a gamer girl, don’t you think? The example was absolutely unnecessary.
Your comment was wholely unnecessary as well. This response is too.
If you think of two concurrent twitch streams of one person, one consistently twitch friendly and one consistently a twitch guidelines strike, ran and operated by the same person. And in a way that both are profitable enough to be worth the effort. What exactly is the simplest solution? Because writing this is wordy and boring as hell, when I can just say face cam ass cam. I don’t have to dig it myself to know a market exists for it.
How is this technology?
How is it not? It’s IT, Information Technology
Things that happen on twitch, youtube, etc, don’t seem like “technology”. Just because it happens on tech doesn’t make tech.
I might be in the minority… I’m just saying 😊
I agree with you, there is plenty of news here which are borderline techs. The funny part is how tolerant people are about. I remember the comment about some saoudis arrested after twitter gave them up, and this time, it was commented this article shouldn’t be posted on this community…
You can as well ask, is YouTube any good as a video platform?
Twitch have been around for more than 10 years and can serve tens of thousands of viewers, so I would say it’s pretty stable technology.
Should this article be on a technology forum though? It’s purely about a company changing a rule blocking you from using a service. It’s a TOS change. Nothing new was created, no tech has been introduced. This is company politics, nothing more.
Valid point, the annoying part is that it’s the trend for major technology companies to just change their tos and not really do anything new. So there’s a lot of discussion about boring stuff.
Sure, but there’s plenty of interesting tech out there that isn’t highlighted because twitch made a TOS change
