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Twitch is trash. Everywhere I've been, 1080p isn't stable. As soon as I switch over to youtube, 1080p works fine. And their stupid "loading stream UwU" screen when loading it on another page is just annoying.
It also misses the absolutely basic feature or scrubbing - I can't rewind or click back to a previous point in the stream - no. For that, the stream has to have recording activated, then you need to know of
/videoson the streamer's page, and finally you can open the "recording". And because it's a recording, you can't "go to live". It jumps back to the very beginning of the stream when it gets to the end "end of the recording", which is whenever you opened it --> opened it 1 hour ago? Once it hits that point again, (no, notlive - 1hourbutlive - 2 hours), it reloads and now you have to remember that it waslive - 2 hours.It's just shit.
Well, the primary focus of the platform is the fact that it's meant to be live, not on-demand. Everything else takes a backseat.
I replay stuff all the time. Especially during live tournaments and a caster missed something, I scrub back to the point, watch it at a different speed, then hit live again. Or if I go to the loo and don't want to miss an important fight, pause, loo, scrub back a little to the beginning of the fight, then hit live.
It's so basic. Any tournament organiser that's twitch exclusive, I don't watch and just wait for the highlights.
I get that, because I'm the same way with my media consumption. But that just means that Twitch isn't for you. There's a whole market of people who appreciate the fact that if you missed something, you missed it for good, and that's the primary audience Twitch is meant to serve.
Yep, Twitch isn't for me because YouTube has these braindead basic features already.
You're right. It's why I don't use Twitch much.
YouTube streams are so good. Google really has the video streaming tech stack nailed