Question / Help Is there a program or a way to see who joins stream?

[sumusiko]

Is there a way for every new viewer joining the stream to show up the name on top of the stream or show on a program so I see the names of the viewers?

 

[dodgepong]

If you're the only one who's interested in seeing that, then just join Twitch chat via IRC and you can see when people join.

 

[sumusiko]

from what I'm seeing in twitch faq, it would be a bit of a pain to do that every time i stream , is there no programs that can grab me the list of people who just joined the chat?

Just so I can welcome them :)

 

[FerretBomb]

It's actually quite easy, you set it up once and just save the connection details in your IRC program. I do this to log my chat in case someone gets banned and I need to go back and see what they were saying before I unban them.

I'd also recommend *against* greeting people before they say hello/speak in chat; a lot of people (myself included) then feel 'forced' to interact. If they meant to just lurk, it puts them on the spot and they may simply leave and not come back. It's your call of course, but it's one of the things that can actually harm a stream (second only to an auto-greeter IRC bot).

 

[Videophile]

I use a custom auto-greeting IRC bot, and it is awesome. The bots name is "Welcome_bot" and my logic is it increases stream interactivity since people feel more welcomed, and it lets me address new viewers. I have had some people jump in, and when I say hi, they say they are going to lurk, and then I leave it at that, so far I have not seen anyone scared away.

Either way, its up to you.

-Shrimp

 

[sumusiko]

can't seem to find that welcome_Bot where did u find it?

 

[Videophile]

A friend of mine made it and the IRC script is custom. I don't think he is giving it to anyone else. Look on YouTube for tutorials.

The program he uses is mIRC which has its own scripting language.

-Shrimp