Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-sports events

Re:Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-... by Ferofluid on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:45AM (#14601733)

I've found that third party applications like Orion are far better UI wise than Twitch. The twitch web interface always felt clunky to me. I don't know how they managed to mess up the interface but Orion (a desktop app) plays the video streams far better with no weird lags or stutters.

You can get the source here: https://github.com/alamminsalo/orion

or just google "Orion Twitch" if you want compiled binaries.

I have no affiliation with Orion, just a satisfied user.

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Re:Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-... by Ntrails on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:44AM (#14602011)

The only complaint I have against the twitch UI is recent, and that's the idiotic "unread message" indicator every time I log on trying to sell me prime. No. Fuck off. At this point I'm less likely to buy prime because of this.

Other than that it does everything I want. Shows me all the active streams of a game I like, lets me follow people I like and get alerts when they're streaming. And the video content plays pretty well. My main remaining complaint is that they'll run adverts over active content - which is infuriating.

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