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by Matt3o12_ 3723 days ago
This seems actually kind of cool. I've always enjoyed reading Twitter during popular keynotes, but it would be super cool to see what other people think during my favorite tv show. Have you planned to do a Twitter like rating (show popular comments + a few new random ones).

How are you planning on syncing this with Netflix, Amazon, and co? You could have a start button in your app but I doubt this would really work out well because some shows have different lengths on different platforms (some add a longer intro, others filter some content) and I often like to pause the TV show, which would make it out of sync unless I also pause the app.

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There's up- and downvoting and we use that to rate-limit comments that are being displayed as you go. Downvoted comments (like spoilers) get filtered out quickly, upvoted (or new) comments make it through the rate-limit. We're using a modified version of reddit's published scoring system.

Syncing is the single biggest technical issue and currently not easy since most platforms don't allow access to the point where we could really time-sync. Still looking at a few options, though.