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[–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

I haven't watched Twitch in a good year or two (used to all the time) I only recognize like 2 of these games other than Riot. who's Caedrel?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    He's a former League of Legends pro who now streams and co-streams the big LoL matches, so on match days he jumps way above everyone else. That's kind of why I made this, actually.

    Twitch's directory is just a list sorted by viewers, and a list hides the shape of it: how far ahead the top few are, and how huge the long tail of small streams is. I wanted to see all of it at once, as something that feels alive. So I built a channel with no streamer at all: it draws itself every minute from the Twitch API and runs 24/7.

    The fun part for me is watching it move: someone goes live and their tower grows out of the ground, a raid lands and a tower shoots up, two streamers in the same game trade places. Most of the names were new to me too.

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