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Well, lots of streamers really don't like Twitch. But Mixer was a downgrade for most people in terms of features and functionality. Same situation with YouTube - a lot of content creators aren't happy with it, but everything else out there is just a worse version of YT. The bigger, older platforms have a lot of momentum.

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It's okay to copy a product. You just have to do it better. And Mixer wasn't even close. I actually liked Mixer's video quality more than Twitch, but that's not what makes Twitch fun for users...

Mixer did have comparatively low latency and interaction features, that was a unique point at least back then. Apparently not enough though.

I’m pretty sure mixer had a ton of features twitch didn’t have at one point but I could be wrong. I just remember watching kabby in the height of the pubg craze and he had a ton of cool stuff no one on twitch had.

They have some better and different features; but also lacking in some features people considered essential.

For me as a viewer, an easy example is that taking clips of streams is relatively new to Mixer, and you can't even sort/filter them. Clips helped build a lot of Twitch streamers' popularity by making things bite-sized and shareable.

Is there a competitor that content creators _do_ like? I mostly stream to people I know so I don't care for the network effects of Twitch really. If there's something out there with higher quality video or a superior interface, I'd love to know about it.

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