kubaska
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2 years ago Hello @Rex000, Sorry for my really late reply, and about not replying at all on your other comment. I was busy with work and life stuff and completely forgot about it.
About your reported issues:
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I have updated refresh button behavior, so now you'll be able to refresh content on "unrefreshable" tabs.
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I also updated exit search button behavior, to clear search query first, and then wipe search levels. I think you already asked for this earlier, but I didn't make it work well.
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As for streamer thumbnail photos, I really miss them too. It's one of Twitch's api downgrades, and the only way to get them is to send additional request, but this basically doubles the time for you to see content. Since I have followed channels cached, I can display thumbnails in followed streams or followed vods - I wanted to add this back in january, but didn't since I wanted to be consistent with design across the extension.
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Yes, followed games are not being saved in backup file. This is on my to-do list.
About GQL: I started reading about it and have mixed feelings. For example, one of the reasons Chatterino is not using it is that they don't want to risk a lawsuit. Though, for an extension this small it would probably be fine to implement it as a "proof of concept". The bigger issue is that when I tried using it in browser there was no way to send a request without cookies - this means if you're logged in to Twitch (in browser, not TF), they can connect request with your account, and apparently there is a risk that you can get banned for that. So, as you see it's not that easy as just implementing it. Of course, there are ways to mitigate that, but it's falling outside the scope of a browser extension.
I'll see what can I do about it in the coming weeks. Thanks for using Twitch Fox.
Rex000
Hey @kubaska,
Haven't heard from you in a while nor there was any new updates for TF. I thought you didn't read my last message so I thought about posting here.
A few more issues that I just came across:
The refresh button is clickable in the games tab but I don't know if it actually works. I wish it was usable in the streams tab too as I've noticed that often times when I click on a stream, the twitch page opens up and shows that the stream already got offline a few minutes ago.
When searching for a stream or game, the "exit search" button doesn't work. The only way is to either change the tab then come back or manually delete the search letters. I don't remember if this was the case before so I thought I should bring it up.
I noticed that the thumbnails don't show the profile pic of the streamer anymore. IDK if it was intentional but it was a good thing to have. Now more often than not when I'm skimming through a large number of live streams, I find myself skipping streamers because they're not on the thumbnail(i.e. if they're playing a game for instance), and it's already hard to remember all of their names. It was very convenient from the profile pics to quickly know which streamer's thumbnail I was looking at, and thus it was not easy to miss them.
I accidentally removed Twitch Fox while removing another addon. When I reinstalled it and loaded my list, it only had my followed channels but not the games. The followed games tab was completely empty.
Glad to hear that the game data can be displayed using GQL api. As I've stated before too that it's really hard to click on every single game thumbnail to check if there are any live streams for it. It's a shame that they made the api less useful than it used to be instead of the other way around. I really hope the GQL api works as it would be a very useful feature to have. I'm eagerly waiting for it.
Thanks!