Permission to hide the viewer list

[mopoIo]

It would be cool to have an option so only mods can see the viewer list

[calzoneman]

Why? I don't see the purpose at all.

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It would be cool to have an option so only mods can see the viewer list

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[mopoIo]

So people can join the room and lurk in silence without having to say hi to everyone else

[calzoneman]

Then couldn't you just open the channel in an incognito/private browsing window so that you aren't logged in?

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So people can join the room and lurk in silence without having to say hi to everyone else

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[mopoIo]

We have anonymous users blocked and a password to avoid random people joining

El El sáb, 16 de abr. de 2022 a la(s) 16:59, Calvin Montgomery < @.***> escribió:

Then couldn't you just open the channel in an incognito/private browsing window so that you aren't logged in?

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[calzoneman]

Your simultaneous desire to join anonymously and also to prevent anonymous users from joining is quite confusing to me. I don't see the purpose of this feature.

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We have anonymous users blocked and a password to avoid random people joining

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Then couldn't you just open the channel in an incognito/private browsing window so that you aren't logged in?

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[mopoIo]

In Twitch, when you join a chat, it takes a couple of minutes before your username appears on the viewer list, this gives users room to join and lurk for a couple of minutes and leave. Maybe they join to check what is playing, and if they don't like it they can just leave without it being awkward. We do want people to be anonymous and read our messages but only if it's someone we know. I understand the lack of vision on this topic because as you said on a different feature request, twitch is just a small percentage and it doesn't set the norm.

I managed to show the username on all the messages using javascript, but for the viewer list, users can just disable css and js and gain access again to the viewer list again, that's why I asked.

Sorry for being annoying, I will just go ahead and close this issue.

[calzoneman]

I don't necessarily find these issues annoying, I just avoid adding features that have very niche usage because software maintenance complexity grows exponentially with the number of features.

One reason that I publish the source code on GitHub with a very permissive license is that I encourage people who have particular needs to fork it and customize it to fit the needs of their community. That way, the core remains relatively small and simple, and different kinds of communities can add only the features they need on top.

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In Twitch, when you join a chat, it takes a couple of minutes before your username appears on the viewer list, this gives users room to join and lurk for a couple of minutes and leave. Maybe they join to check what is playing, and if they don't like it they can just leave without it being awkward. We do want people to be anonymous and read our messages but only if it's someone we know. I understand the lack of vision on this topic because as you said on a different feature request, twitch is just a small percentage and it doesn't set the norm.

I managed to show the username on all the messages using javascript, but for the viewer list, users can just disable css and js and gain access again to the viewer list again, that's why I asked.

Sorry for being annoying, I will just go ahead and close this issue.

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