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If they do acquire Twitch I hope that they still let it run separately and just improve the back end (as while it has improved it still lags for a lot of people around the world).

I worry if they tried to roll it into youtube that it would turn people away. Their numbers are pretty dependent on a small number of League/ Dota/ Hearthstone and a few other games casters and steamers.




I agree, Twitch livestreams is unwatchable for me most of the times I have tried to use it.

Youtube on the other hand, while available, have worked quite good.


It's funny that my experience is the complete opposite, I wonder if it's just our confirmation bias, or the fact that we are too small a sample. It could also be that us being in different countries (I assume) impacts a lot in our experiences.


I didn't provide enough information, streaming from both Twitch and Youtube works flawlessly from London where I am located now.


Yeah, different countries/ providers really impacts peoples experience. On the whole it does seem to be better for more people now though.


Here in France both twitch and youtube are both unusable if you're using some providers like Free.


There's something wrong on your end because Twitch's streams haven't had problems since they introduced the 30 second delay last year.




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