[imbnwa]

Twitch’s overall UX since I got into it has always seemed fundamentally about funneling you into a live stream as soon as possible and nothing else. If the entire Software and Gaming Dev community there kick off an alternative that would be such a great thing overall (does this exist?) but the big dev streamers would likely never make that sacrifice. Let Twitch be for gaming or whatever their current strategy is, but please, dev streamers, I beg you.

Wasn’t there a Show HN a few months ago where the dev had live streaming integrated with interacting with the running code? That’s what I want to see get big. Lemme see if I can find it now that it came to mind

[oriel]

There's a concept that captured me, called Gruen transfer[1].

> the Gruen transfer is the moment when consumers enter a shopping mall or store and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, lose track of their original intentions, making them more susceptible to making impulse buys.

It started with shopping malls, later affected e-commerce, and now the media industry as a whole (specifically here with livestreaming).

Seems like we have hit peak distraction by design here too. Not sure this is a valuable term to rally around, but it definitely describes the modern woes of every platform and service.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_transfer