>>86065760This is a discovery problem, by the way
As a twitch streamer viewers enter your stream by 1 of 3 ways:
By being subscribers and getting notified when you go live
By searching the directory you're streaming in and picking you out of all the people streaming there
By being raided.
Subscribers tuning in is nice, but you don't grow just by having the same pool of subs forever. They need to attract new eyes. And since you can't always rely on raids, you need people to single you out in the directory in order to grow as a channel. That's your discovery.
So everyone starts their stream in a popular directory and finds an excuse to faff about there for an hour or 2 to draw in eyes, then tries to carry that audience to the directory they actually want to stream in. This is the whole reason 'just chatting' exists. Naturally people browsing the just chatting directory aren't interested in some decade-old game, but some of them might sub before you switch, or just be indifferent enough to not click off. That's how you grow. Because if you just go straight to a directory with 0 other streams and 6 people looking at it you're literally only streaming to your subscribers. There's 0 discovery to aid your channel or connect people to your content, no matter how fantastic you make that stream.
