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Show HN: Glitch – open-source Twitch Like Platform (glitch.fun)
9 points by invirtu on Nov 30, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
For builders and developers, an open-source Twitch-like esports platform for people who want to build their own live streaming solutions. Play with the online version or download the code and customize it to your needs.


"you must enable javascript"

with twitch, I can watch the HLS streams using yt-dlp and my ownw media player, I can browse relatively well enough who is live with a noscript/basic (x)html browser, and there is a read-only irc server for chat.


Two thoughts on the Javascript being enabled required: 1. What percentage of users do you feel are browsing without JS? 2. Its open source, would you be willing to make a non-js version?


1 - if you don't understand why it is important to be browsable with light/lean/noscript/basic (x)html browsers, why do you want me to tell you? That said, I should read for good how they did define the <video>/<audio> HTML elements for the various types of video/audio content (HLS, rtsp, etc) in order to configure automatically and properly my media player.

2 - Well, I am currently working already on, what I think, are more critical projects, but "never say never". Currently, I can manage to "view"/browse twitch or youtube live without the massive browsers based on blink/geeko (financed by google, a vanguard/blackrock company via alphabet) or webkit (financed by apple, a vanguard/blackrock company), I just cannot have an account(I get the ad breaks) or chat(for the better actually).


Do I understand right, that the core function of streaming is not included and a third party is used for it?!




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