I'm not sure how many of you have used Meerkat or Periscope but I used Periscope for the first time the other day and found it EXTREMELY frustrating. Bernie Sanders posted a link to a live stream and I wanted to watch it but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to watch it online (strike 1). There apparently IS a way to do this but I couldn't find it and coming from someone who does web/mobile development for a living that should never happen. So I downloaded the app and signed in with Twitter. Then I tried clicking the link to the stream again but I couldn't get it to open up in the app (strike 2). I then searched for "Bernie Sanders" and found him and clicked the "Follow" button. I then swiped back over to the first screen that shows the current streams for people you follow and it was blank... I don't know how often this updates but I'd expect if I just fucking followed someone (who was streaming LIVE) then this page would update (strike 3). I went back to search and clicked on his name and saw I could click on his picture to jump into his live stream which I did. This seemed to work but the comments/hearts were SUPER FUCKING ANNOYING, I really wish there was a way to disable those covering up the video. I watched the stream (which cut out a few times, this may have just been the streamers connection) and afterwards I wanted to see what I missed at the start but AFAICT there is NO WAY TO WATCH OLD STREAMS (strike 4?). This is deal breaker for me. Fuck your "synchronous" model, it's horseshit. Live streaming is fine but let me watch what they streamed if I missed it or if I came in late.

I don't know about any of you but I am not able to jump on a stream at a seconds notice and then watch the full stream until it's over. My job doesn't allow for that and more importantly my brain won't allow for that. I can't drop everything just to watch something live, I need DVR or similar. I'm fine with temp video (Live stream + online for 14hrs) but live-only? What a MASSIVE step backwards.