I’ve begun building an interactive intermission application for use on Twitch. Yesterday, the application was working fine.

Today I woke up and chat messages sent via IRC are not visible to users in real time.

Any messages sent by my application show up as past messages when a new user enters the chat, but no messages sent will appear in real time – they only update if the user re-enters the chat by reloading or opening the chat in a new window.

For example, if the bot sends a consecutive integer every second. User 1 joins 10 seconds after the bot is activated, they will see a chat history of the bot counting 1…2…3…4… to 10. While in chat, User 1 sees no updates.

User 2 joins five seconds later, they will see the bot having counted to 15 – even though User 1’s chat never updated.

While in the chat, they will see no new digits, even if messages from other human participants are updating. If they reloaded the page later, all the missing messages update as though they had sent in real time.

Feedback from the developer forums (https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/automated-irc-messages-only-updating-on-page-load/31354) told me to post this here.

I've got a bug, has happened twice now.
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Just last night i was on the TWIS channel ( which i also moderate)
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Then today i get an email telling me i haven't visited the stream in a while, so stream notices will be disabled for TWIS...
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the first time this happened on a different channel, i UN-followed and re-followed the channel to be sure i would get the notices ( loosing my follow streak of a couple years to just a day at the time).
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on twis, i literally haven't missed a stream in over 10 years, i think before they even used twitch (started on JTV and stanford university before that (podcast))..
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but now this.
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I'm going to guess the issue here is -
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Twitch uses the email notice as its indicator REQUIRING us to click it to visit the channel and reset the notice timers / counter / what ever it is called.
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I never forget to watch the live stream.
I never click the email notice either..
I don't need to click the email notice to find the stream or visit it ...
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But i do want the email notice to be sure i don't miss the show.

Здравствуйте. Сегодня 17.04.2021 года. один из стримеров забанил меня на короткий срок. на 1 минуту и на 5 минут. Ссылаясь на то что я употребляю лексику не подобающую политике стримменгого сервиса twitch.tv. Я несколько раз ссылался на персонажа квентина тарантино из фильмы Бесславные ублюдки. Которого Зовут ЖИД МЕДВЕДЬ. Мне дали бан, за данную транскрипцию, далее мне объяснили что так, на вашем стримминговом сервисе выражаться нельзя. а именно говорить слово ЖИД. я не совсем понимаю почему. Я являюсь потомственным польским евреем, проживающим на территории Российской федерации. Возможно я не совсем религиозен и не соблюдаю ШАББАТ. Но все же, я люблю своего прадеда, я ЖИД по линии матери. Что значит что я являюсь потомственным евреем. я не понимаю, ваших правил и хочу что-бы вы объяснили на какие правила, какое оскорбление, ваша компания называет под словом ЖИД. Мой прадед после конц лагеря, попал на территорию белоруссии, далее жил в украине. Данное слово которое означает Еврей или Иудей, название данное в украине или западной европе. переводится как JUDA. Почему название Жид, в вашей интерпритации является оскорбительным и его нельзя говорить.

Распишите пожалуйста, что вы имеете ввиду, когда по вашим правилам ЖИД, это оскорбление. Буду ждать вашего ответа. спасибо.

на счет бота.. создать смог бы и назвать ее Кармой, которая за нарушения правил начислял санкции поэтапно, за оскорбления же или мелкие желчные или другие оскорбительные моменты, требовал 100 рублей в течении 24 часов, если не выполнял требование виновник, его удаляли в чс, особенно для телеги хорошо это было бы. Так же боту разрешено продать до 10 индульгенций(по римскому прощение наперед), по 100 руб заранее, каждому желающему. деньги же прозрачно показывались, сколько на балансе, а раз в месяц придумывался безумный конкурс, и разыгрывались бы призы за эти деньги в той группе где этот бот сидит, меж примерными инь янь. - Это первый шаг к повышению культурности.

Add the ability to tag messages. Twitch could feature some default tags, then allow the streamer and mods to feature other tags. They can be permanent or temporarily featured. Everyone can filter chat in various ways,

The main reason why I want this is because massive streamers like xQc have hundreds of comments every second. You can never hold an actual conversation or ask a question there.

These tags are basically an alternative to an earlier idea I had, which is to introduce different channels, like you have in discord for example. This way you can categorize everything and split that massive stream of messages into various smaller ones where everyone is talking about similar/the same things.

Problems this could solve:

• Spam overtaking chat (you could force users to add the spam tag, and if they don't, mods could ban them or permanently enable that tag for them).


• Pronouns (Everyone who wants to, can add tags that address their pronouns).


• Message threads (Every message can have a random internal tag that will represent a thread. Replies can then add that tag to form a reply to that message).


• Account verification (Some tags could be automatic, meaning the user has no control over it but instead it is controlled by a 3rd party. Tag permissions, so to speak).


• Spoiler tagging (With spoiler tag).


• Pinned messaging (Mod-controlled "pinned" tag).


• Twitch censoring (This way, you could ban words and censor people, but not force everyone to abide by your standards. This also makes it clear to advertisers and such what side you're on, without turning down freedom of speech. Best of both worlds.).

It also provides some new fancy ways of dealing with things:

• Messages containing URLs, NSFW stuff or things that don't follow channel guidelines in other ways can be tagged so that people can just filter them out instead of having them be banned. This is of course, entirely up to how the channel wants to handle this.


• Subscribers and moderators can be automatically tagged as such, removing the need of the image prefixes and replacing them with a more generic and customizable system.
  
  
  • Because mods can give users tags, they can also create new roles like 'trusted'.
  
  
  
  

Implementation features:

• Add a random, unique tag to every message, that is hidden by default.
  
  
  • Can be used to reply to a message and thus start a thread.
  
  
  
  

Streamer/mod side features:

• Disable tags in their chat altogether to provide the current twitch experience.


• Add tags to messages.


• Add permanent/temporary tags to messages from specific users.

Client-side features (no server costs):

• Disable tags altogether.


• For the unique message tags:
  
  
  • Add a simple toggle button to show or hide such a thread
  
  
  • Add another quick-access option to hide all replies to threads
  
  
  
  


• Add a "More info" button on a message so people can see all info about it and even share the message directly with others.


• Add censoring rules (meaning messages will show if you click them once)


• Add hiding rules (meaning messages won't be shown)


• Add highlighting rules (meaning messages will pop out more)


• Add tag hiding rules (To hide some tags, not users)

Client-side advanced features:

• Have tagging settings per stream and for your entire account. Also make them transferrable (Export/import to a text representation like base64 or text that makes actual sense)


• Add "virtual tags" which will be added on the client-side to messages that have either all of, or one of a set of tags. This will allow users to set up very powerful filtering rules. They can also be used to create aliases that replace longer tags.

Ideas for Twitch Featured Tags
Verified, 18+, Twitch-Approved (for messages that don't include words banned by twitch)

That's it for now, I will keep adding to these lists when I come up with new ideas or find good ones in your replies.

Twitch, if you're a fan of this idea, I'm very down to join your team and try to work on an implementation. I have some ideas in mind already for how to implement this and I'm actually really looking for a job.

When streaming using my VPN, my chat constantly disconnects and reconnects. This does not happen when VPN is off, and is not actually a connection issue as I never drop frames. I could ignore the constant spamming of "welcome to the chat room" but the problem is that I miss chats from my community. Being a small streamer, this is unacceptable as I read and respond to everyone. Being a female streamer, turning off my VPN is not an option. I do understand that twitch is trying to do something about people using VPN's to get around channel bans. But your content creators need to be able to use VPN's without it interfering with your site, for their own safety.

When streaming using my VPN, my chat constantly disconnects and reconnects. This does not happen when VPN is off, and is not actually a connection issue as I never drop frames. I could ignore the constant spamming of "welcome to the chat room" but the problem is that I miss chats from my community. Being a small streamer, this is unacceptable as I read and respond to everyone. Being a female streamer, turning off my VPN is not an option. I do understand that twitch is trying to do something about people using VPN's to get around channel bans. But your content creators need to be able to use VPN's without it interfering with your site, for their own safety.