Twitch Lurker

This used to be a great tool for catching up on my favorite streamers, but lately it stopped working. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, turning it off and on again, but I can't find any solution to fix it. Very disappointed that it broke and there's no feedback about what's going on or how to get it working again. Won't be using this app again.

I follow a bunch of streamers. I watch a bunch of streamers. But like a lot of people I lose track of time and forget when a streamer is on and they could start a stream and be on for hours and I'll miss out. This thing works as an easy reminder by popping up the stream in a tab when it starts. It also pops up my favorites whenever that window closes as well. It's good for keeping up watch streaks or just being a diligent VIP or Mod of a stream. Been a game changer for me. Only addition I'... Show more

2 stars because it worked for one full day before failing. No longer stays logged in. Nothing was changed in browser settings it just started automatically logging the extension out of Twitch(Chrome browser/Twitch still logged in). You log into Twitch thru the extension and before you can can blink it's automatically logged out.

It's a great extension, the only thing missing is that it also automatically opens kick streams, just for that I give it 4 stars but it's a 10/10 on Twitch

Sometimes it fails to work properly.

Nice little extension that allows you to sort streamers from ones you actually watch and those that you just follow. I do believe that I have hit a limit though with how many favorites you can have which is unfortunate as I can only favorite a channel if I unfavorite another. Unsure as to why there is a limitation to this if the extension has hit a size issue or a design flaw that was not thought of when creating. ie just an array that can't resize rather than some other ADT. Looking forwards... Show more

Michael Yaworski Developer Apr 12, 2025

Thanks for the comment. There is no limitation on the number of favorites you can have. It would be a bug if that is happening to you. Are you able to provide a video of you demonstrating it? You can email me the video or post it to https://github.com/mikeyaworski/twitch-lurker/issues

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I love this extension but please add a list where we can have our ultimate favourites (you could add a double star or other symbol to represent this) And in this list will prioritise them first over the main list when opening the browser and such. I will come back and change this review to 5 stars if you do!

Michael Yaworski Developer Mar 4, 2025

Perhaps you don't know this, but you can reorder the favorites. Click the "Favorites" button on the right to see your list and then drag-and-drop to reorder them. If you want a certain list of people to have higher priority than the rest, you would just put them at the top. Let me know if you meant something else.

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Works great!

Thank you for making this extensions. I'm just wondering if anyone else who's using, have similar issues with mine. I've been using this for quite some time with diff browser. At some point all of them, after awhile will open the tab tho the media/stream is not playing. I'm still considered lurking in stream tho, just curious.

Michael Yaworski Developer Jan 1, 2025

Do you have the preference set to open tabs in the background or no? If they open in the background, your browser won't play the media until you load the tab (this is a performance mechanism). If it's something else, feel free to elaborate and I can look into it.

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It keeps muting even when i set it not to and try to unmute my tabs. Something needs fixing but i still love it! thanks for creating it!

Michael Yaworski Developer Dec 21, 2024

The player on Twitch may be muted depending on if the last stream you used was muted. But the tab will only be muted if you have that preference enabled in settings. The Twitch player itself is unrelated to the extension. The extension will try to *unmute* the player if you have the preference set to mute tabs. Let me know if you experience something other than what I just described and I can look into it.

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