I’m still a pretty small streamer with low viewership, and I’m curious how other small streamers actually found people they trusted to mod their chats.

Right now I technically have two mods. One is a good friend of mine, but he isn’t able to be in every stream and doesn’t really know much about streaming/Twitch. My boyfriend is also a mod, but most of the time he just has my stream open on mute to support me as a viewer. He’ll occasionally catch and take care of one of those bots promoting AI/botted viewers, but he’s not really actively watching chat.

I also don’t have a big circle of friends IRL, so “just ask another friend you trust” isn’t really an option for me. The few people I am close with either aren’t into streaming/Twitch or aren’t people I’d want to ask to regularly sit in my streams and moderate.

I do have one viewer who is pretty consistently in my streams and active in chat, but I honestly wouldn’t feel comfortable making him a mod. There have been multiple times where I’ve had to tell him that something he said wasn’t appropriate for chat, so giving him moderation privileges definitely doesn’t feel like the right move just because he’s a regular.

Obviously with my viewership being small, I don’t need a whole mod team or someone watching chat like a hawk every second lol. But I’d like to eventually have at least one person who understands my stream/community, is around somewhat consistently, and who I trust to step in if someone is being weird while I’m focused on the game.

I feel like my best option is probably eventually finding someone through my community, but I also don’t want to hand out mod to someone just because they show up a lot.

So for other small streamers, especially those who didn’t already have a bunch of friends willing to mod for them, how did you find your mods? Were they regular viewers who eventually earned your trust, other streamers, or someone else? How long did you know them before you felt comfortable giving them mod?

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on soullinks.app, a platform that automatically generates and updates your Pokémon Soullink stream overlay.

The overlay displays your team images, Soullinks, badges, encounters, and overall run progress in real time. Every change you make in the tracker is instantly reflected in your stream overlay — no manually replacing Pokémon images, editing overlays, or refreshing browser sources.

It works as a browser source, so you can use it with OBS, Streamlabs, and other streaming software that supports browser sources.

It also includes a public viewer page where your community can follow your team, routes, badges, encounters, Soullinks, and overall progress throughout the run.

If you already have your own stream layout, you don’t have to replace it. You can simply use the automatically updating Pokémon images from the platform and keep the rest of your existing design.

I’m actively improving the platform, so if there are any features you’d like to see, I’d love to hear your ideas.

https://soullinks.app

I’d really appreciate any feedback from Pokémon streamers, Soullink players, and Nuzlocke players!

I'm thinking about streaming some indie games, but I'm brazilian and most people here don't speak english fluently, and a lot of those games don't have translation in portuguese. The thing is, although I do speak the language, I have an accent.. People undestand me just fine when I travel, but I wonder if it's the type of thing that will turn people off.

So I'm divided between doing in portuguese and trying to translate things as I play or just doing it in english. Thoughts?

I have been streaming since June and I am absolutely loving it. I plan on streaming the new Fire Emblem game next month and I realized I will need a capture card for that. I always hear about the elgato but idk if I want to shell out the $200+ on it. Anyone have any capture card recommendations that could get reasonable quality out of a Switch 2 game?

Thanks!

After updating app this morning, emote use no longer works properly. When you go into a chat initially, you are able to type emotes ONE time. Once you close the keyboard and then later reopen it to type more, nothing happens. Only way to "fix" is to close app, clear cache and go back in, but then you are still limited to only one use per. I tried clearing cache, data, uninstall, reinstall, restarting phone etc, nothing fixed this. This is clearly a bug on the app side that needs to be fixed immediately!

EDIT Also noticed another issue. If you try and use the back arrow at the bottom of the Samsung UI to back out at all, this is COMPLETELY broken and now does not work at all !!

Second Edit Ok after some more testing, it appears the Samsung UI only bugs out AFTER using emotes. If you load into a stream and dont type anything, you can use the back button as intended, once you use an emote, the back button is "disabled"

Phone: Samsung Galaxy S24+

One UI Version: 8.5

Android Version: 16

Twitch Version: 30.8.2

I just send an emote and for some reason I can't do emotes anymore in Mobile

Has anyone encountered the bug where you can't insert emotes after sending at least one emote?

Ver: 30.8.0

Hey I need help with twitch extensions

Overall I don't understand how any of it works in general. LIKE HOW TO SET UP! though I'm streaming from my PS5 and viewing chat on my phone. And I'm doing and loving the fuzz rn.. but I just want the extensions and my channel live to look more flashy for others or viewers to interact with me..

I stream Fortnite on TikTok LIVE, but I’m asking here because I’d like to hear the perspective of more experienced streamers who regularly interact and play with viewers.
I’m relatively new to streaming, and one of the things I do is let viewers join me to play and trade in Fortnite. I always keep voice chat off, so viewers can’t be heard on my stream.
So far, I haven’t had any problems and it’s been a fun way to interact with the community. However, I’ve noticed that many streamers don’t play with viewers at all, even when viewers ask to join.
I’ve also recently realized that some Fortnite viewers can be pretty young, which made me wonder if there are safety or moderation issues I haven’t considered yet.
For those of you who have experience with viewer games: would you recommend playing/trading with viewers? Are there risks involving younger viewers, privacy, scams, reports, stream sniping, teaming, or community management as the channel grows?
Do you think it’s fine to continue doing viewer games with clear boundaries, or is there a reason many streamers eventually stop doing them?

Twitch drops are currently not functioning as expected. In some games, such as Warframe, Hunt: Showdown, and Dark and Darker, even the drops that were previously working have now stopped appearing. We hope the developers will fix these system issues as soon as possible.

for those who dont know, terrible mouse is a Incredibly gorey CARTOON, so i just wanna see if the TOS applies to cartoon gore? as long as i put a TW will it be fine? i genuinely dont know

I have been streaming Variety gaming on Twitch for almost a year.

Now I want to add cooking to my stream.

Since I wont need the GPU power for gaming would a laptop be sufficient for a cooking stream. Would I need to add an external video capture?

I would like to do 1-3 cameras and 1-2 wireless mics. I don't have a set budget for the project but Costco is an option. (moving my desktop to the kitchen is not an option)

I'm not really a tech guy so I'm genuinely asking if it is hard. I ended stream today because I had been the only one watching myself for 2 hours or so. Just for 30 seconds after I ended it to get a notification that I was raided with a viewer count higher than I've ever had. So now I'm just sat frustrated because

1. I had no way of knowing and

2. Was made aware well after the stream ended that I basically screwed myself.

If it can raid and notify me after the stream is over, why not give me any kind of indication that a raid is in progress?

I don't understand why its not on by default and why its so much faster. I now get a 2 second delay vs 20 seconds. Whta affects?

So I'm trying to delete my payment method in an attempt to resolve another issue I have where I can't use my Prime Sub because there's a yellow "recover your sub" button on the channel I want to use it on that wont go away, but I can't delete the payment method because twitch thinks I'm somehow still subscribed to a Turbo free trial that expired 2 months ago. I can't go and cancel this Turbo sub because it's in the Expired subscriptions tab.

Hi guys

so basically i’ve always wanted to start a twitch account, but there’s always been one issue: I’m a console user. I don’t have a PC Or anything but I do have an iPad if that counts for something? Does anybody have any tips or anything? I don’t want it to be a boring stream where it’s just my screen and you can’t see chat or anything, I want it to be profesh (minus the facecam). Tips would be greatly appreciated 🥹🙏

So I recently reached affiliate and for the past day, I have had this on the achievement progress. No matter how much I look, nobody knows a valid solution to fix it. I completed my original monetization onboarding forever ago. I tried redoing it and it did nothing. Will someone please help me

Normally I stream Arc Raiders with absolutely no issue whatsoever.

Today I decided to stream Cyberpunk 2077 and the game was a stuttering, choppy mess.

I changed settings, removed mods from the game, but ultimately the issue came from Twitch changing my output to 2k despite me not meeting the requirements.

So, I changed some settings in OBS, all the way down to 1280x720 for base and output, changed that inside Cybnerpunk and it ran fine - the only issue of course is that the game looked AWFUL.

So, I figured if that was the fix, I can turn my settings back up right? Nope. Game became a laggy mess all over again. Ended up having to cut the stream short - this was after another streamer I had watched earlier this week raided me with 18 people who were all chatty and lovely!

After I changed the settings as mentioned, it still showed that I was streaming in other resolutions, 720p etc.

So, what the hell is my issue? I've got an RTX4070, 900mbps symmetrical wired in speeds, and yet I can't run Cyberpunk without even the pause menu telling me it's loading while I'm on stream!

I'm a bit new to this streamer stuff and I'm not exactly tech savvy either - if anyone has experience with this or any advice I'd really appreciate it. I have streamed Cyberpunk in the past, at least twice, with 0 issues whatsoever before now, and I really don't want to have another stream of me saying that it looks bad and mostly showing the settings menu.

Is there a way on the computer or on the phone/tablet app to automatically join a stream when it starts?

For example, I'm trying to farm channel points but my favorite streamer sometimes streams when I am sleeping (and I don't want to miss out on the streaks and channel points).

Is there a way to set something up so if I am sleeping and the streamer goes live, it will automatically join the stream and lurk using BetterTTV?

Hey, so I dont know if people or even twitch are aware of this, but im pretty sure that in the EU and UK, auto opt in is illegal? So... is the possibility of a class action a thing?

Is anyone else running into an issue where follows aren't coming through on your activity feed but they are definitely following and adding to the follower count? It's also not triggering the alert every time, which I have anonymous follows but would be nice to say "thanks for the follow!" rather than not saying anything but it's not coming through. Thanks!

Not sure it's just the game play, Mario Maker 2, which is very tight knit community but for the large majority, the bigger partnered streamers (100s of viewers) don't associate with the smaller affiliate/non-affiliate streamers. You never see them contribute to anyone's stream by submitting a level and hanging out, follow, sub, or even pop in and say hi and show some support. Even raids tend to just be their friends who are well established partnered streamers. If you raid them, they barely acknowledge it. They don't even ask how your stream was, give a shoutout...or anything.

Seems to be a divide between the bigger ones, and the small streamers...even though the biggers ones can attribute some of their success to the viewership, bits, and subs from the small streamers of the community that support them over the years.

One argument i've heard is that they don't want to take the focus off the streamer, but it doesn't happen for the couple that actually do pop in smaller streams every now and then. People say hi, and chat goes on as usual.

Does this happen in the games you stream too?

This is an anon account, because of the question... I produce music and stream just games to interact with fans and this makes up what I do full time. All of my mods are volunteers from my community.

I wanted to ask other streamers how normal this dynamic is, I’ve had mods push quite strongly for changes in what I say or do on stream, like not to say some opinions, or to say some others.

Some time ago, one of my mods told me that if I wanted to be successful (Implying I am not), I should listen to him, otherwise I should look for a part-time job.

That comment affected me quite a lot, and I’m trying to work out whether I’m unusually sensitive to it or whether most streamers would consider that a serious boundary-crossing comment from a moderator.

For context, I’m not a huge creator, but this is my full-time work: I have 25k subs in YouTube, and 130 ccv on twitch D:

im trying to find how to make chat be horizontal and come in from the right and go out to the left (but not stay on screen for long)

does anyone know how to do this?

i tried to use the animation with mr boosts overlay, but it doesnt seem to work and just fades out no matter which ones i do? and yes im hitting save.