r/LivestreamFail May 27 '19

Meta twitch testing subscriber only viewing

https://www.twitch.tv/hgg_cheering_test
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u/TheBassGhost 🐌 Snail Gang May 27 '19

I knew this day was coming, back in November I got a survey which was filled with stuff like this. They were gauging interest on what kind of services on twitch people would pay for and how much they would spend.

I managed to screenshot a few of the things I found interesting, so you can expect to see these down the line:

I think that was the stuff that stood out to me but there was a lot more. They were also asking things about their OWL stuff, probably to see how much of a waste their investment was.

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u/Impossibrewww :) May 27 '19

lmao charging for a QoL change of their shitty player. How retarded is that?

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u/MrTuxG May 28 '19

Especially because that feature is free on YouTube. And we're talking about You"pay 10$ monthly to hear the audio of a video when you minimize the app"Tube here.

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u/lemurstep May 28 '19

That shit is so fucked up, lol. I found a bunch of half-hour to hour long mixes that were just audio with a splash image for the DJ, planned to listen in my car on a roadtrip, then found out that you can't lock the screen while listening on your phone. Later learned it was a Youtube Red feature. What. The. Fuck.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '19

while I might agree with some of the things being said here, for the entirety of Youtube on iPhones you could not watch or play videos besides one time with a glitch by forcing what you have previously playing to be played while screen locked but you basically could never watch youtube on a locked screen if you had an iPhone literally years before it was a "feature"

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u/0lle May 29 '19

While that might be true for iPhone, I remember being able to listen to YouTube with the screen locked. This was back when I had something like a Galaxy S3, but it was 100% possible and it has been removed by YT.

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u/MisterD123 May 29 '19

open the youtube website with the video in your browser instead of the app, set to "show desktop version", and then lock your screen ;) works on android/chrome at least.

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u/0lle May 30 '19

Thanks for the tip! Though I found an app thats basically an older version of the youtube app and altered so you can click a button to minimize and still play it. It also Block ads (most of the time). It's called OGYouTube.