Ben Co 🏴‍☠️

Web dev data nerd streamer...
Twitch: enquiries: [email protected]

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

Looking for a plug at a live creator agency. If you work at one or know someone who does, please drop me a DM

(It’s for a separate project, not my channel 😅)

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@StaticGman Thanks for having the 1st reasonable response I've seen!

I agree that gender-swapping a character is a lazy choice but that's not what's happening here, though people act like it is. Laufey is a new character and I'm interested to see her developed beyond being a plot point

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

The God Of War Laufey outrage is so manufactured.

For as long as I've been alive we've had female-led games, both in characters and writers.

Wait for release and review the actual game instead of reacting to some weird "male oppressed" fantasy y'all keep getting off on

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

🍎Twitch Data Time!

Right now 39 channels are live with at least 5,000 viewers.

Unsure how this trends WoW but this could be impacted buy Twitch's efforts to combat bots.

Interestingly, only 4 of those channels are Just Chatting and only 2 are IRL. Could be due to time of day.

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

Holy shit this rob kenyon is completely out of his depth. He clearly has no clue what he's doing and has been dropped in the middle of it by a party that cares less about him than they do the general public (if that were possible)

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@GoldGloveTV Poor guy just wants to enjoy the Letspaly

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@StakeEddie @kick Speaking of stats... How's that API coming along? (Please, I need it)

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@MADkurious Haha all good, I'm just ranting about APIs 😅

Definitely an opportunity in twitch, especially in less popular categories. Easier to stand out in a smaller pond!

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

🔴 Streaming Platform Stats

By my count there's currently:
> 97,132 channels live on Twitch RIGHT NOW!
> 100 channels live on Kick because their API is lacking core functionality
> Don't even get me started on TikTok...

Didn't expect Twitch to be winning in 2026

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@MADkurious No idea about streaming on tiktok tbh, I've only looked at the API as I want to support it in the tools I'm building but the API is pretty crap, especially considering their size!

I use an OBS plugin to multi to twitch and YT but not sure it works for tiktok :/

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@amanvarshney01 Sorry! Prismas great, I'm just new to it and still learning my way around 😅

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate prisma. I hate pri

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@vanrensbird I was being dumb 😅

I'm still learning prisma and I was struggling to debug and error... turns out I was using the wrong adapter haha!

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@Svntvmvriv API updates/roadmap?

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

I might have a workaround to my Kick API issue but I hate everything about it.

Basically, instead of asking Kick who's live I rely on streamers to tell me when they're live via the webhooks but that adds a bazillion layers of complexity on what should be a simple tool... bah

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@joe_tendo Yeah, there's definitely something going on. The API I'm grabbing data from is just a list of live channels so nothing too fancy and there's currently a limit param for 1-100 results and that works fine but from what I can tell there's no way to get the next batch of 100

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

And so it ends?

I know the devs are working hard on the APIs but I'm a little surprised the livestreams endpoint doesn't seem to have pagination.

Asking in the discord but Kick might need to be put on hold until the API is in a better state :(

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

And so it begins...

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@joe_tendo I'm just a little surprised that this endpoint has been released without a core piece of functionality. I'm more of a front end developer so might be missing something but seems odd.

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@Svntvmvriv How's the API coming along?

Live streams endpoint doesn't seem to have pagination yet? Is it on the roadmap at all?

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

@zachbussey Having used tools like this before in other industries, I can guarantee it'll be the same generalised advice every other week with the occasional bit of info that you already knew

[Ben Co 🏴‍☠️ @BenCoTHPS]

Anyone obsessed with mythology?

Need a god/goddess of "discovery"