Little Idea about Streams
7 years ago
France

Hey, Now, there is something named Community on Twitch (You certainly already know that) and the official speedrun community on twitch is Speedrunning. So I think we should replace the [nosrl] in the title to not appear by only checking if the streamer is on the Speedrunning community. That's an idea, I don't think if this can be possible (with the API) and I don't know if this idea is good. Thanks.

France
xDrHellx
He/Him, It/Its
7 years ago

Yo This is a good idea, but at the same time, some runners don't use the "community" feature, i suggest adding this while still keeping the [nosrl] thing.

United States

If they were to improve the streams page, it can be more encompassing.

Include gathering streams from SpeedRunsLive and the speedrunning community on Twitch, even if they're not registered on the site. For streamers without a personal best in the game (or aren't on the site), use title requirements similar to SRL. If they do have a PB, list them regardless unless their title has blacklist keywords. Would be good to include those as toggleable options on the left panel.

If ambitious, have a secondary box below "Twitch Name" that's used to search for keywords in the title, mainly for hacks and mods. If a stream's game has derivatives, like Super Mario 64, it'll check through the derivatives' keywords to see if there's a match, and if it does, it changes the game to the mod/hack.

Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
7 years ago

One thing I'd like to see for the streams page is a little flexibility with game titles. One of my most common runs I stream is http://www.speedrun.com/infamous_first_light The title in Twitch's API for that game is "inFamous: First Light" but since we here have "inFAMOUS First Light" as the title, no streams of that game ever show up on the site (unless you manually input that exact orthography into your stream bar, thus meaning your stream won't show up on twitch's page for the game!). Seems dumb to me, though I admit I don't know easy it really would be to avoid.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
United States

Mods for individual games control the Twitch links. Site staff can probably handle this as well. The streams page could probably use an overhaul at some point.