Show HN: A new discussion format for Streaming services

2 points

7 years ago

One of my biggest gripes with online streaming services like Twitch, Youtube Live, FacebookLive is that it is often hard to track a single discussion while presently watching a stream. Rarely is it possible to have deeper discussions in the often chaos filled chat rooms that are present in most large streams. Additionally, new people who join the stream often have no context on what happened before they join! I think Twitch is the most mature and popular out of those three platforms, so I've focused primarily on Twitch. My goal is to give the broadcaster’s community a place to discuss relevant topics without having to leave Twitch, allow people to use Twitch features like emotes and bits, and gamify the experience at the same time. I built an extension onto Twitch that aims to resolve this problem.

What does StreamThreads do?

StreamThreads is an interactive extension that allows both the streamer and their viewers to create and view discussion threads on your Twitch channel. These threads are shown in a “feed” similar to Hackernews or Reddit that is dynamically ranked based on when it was created and how many upvotes it has. The streamer and their viewers can also write comments in the threads, making for interesting and engaging discussions. Users can upvote and downvote threads so that popular content on a channel’s thread feed is ranked higher. There are multiple ways that you can sort the threads: by most/least popular, newest, or trending! The more upvotes that someone’s content receives, the higher their “score” is. Who doesn’t love internet points?

Where can I learn more or install this?

Here: https://www.twitch.tv/ext/6m9q387smmtyvzmsxmexd7swr89lke-0.0...

Where can I see an example of this being used?

You can see an example of it used on this channel: https://www.twitch.tv/chalupawhale

Let me know what you guys think!