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Twitch without Flash has been available for a while now, if you were willing to use VLC + an IRC client. Twitch HTML5 chat went live on June 30th, HLS was prior to that.

I'd say they're open to ditching Flash.

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VLC for HLS I assume (and I only stumbled upon the '/hls' suffix for any url to support that by accident/in that ticket, which still doesn't seem to be officially closed).

IRC for chat is absolutely new to me and would actually be quite nice..

http://getchatty.sourceforge.net/

Is there a nice way to get the stream to open in VLC?

idk about VLC, but with mpv you can just type "mpv http://www.twitch.tv/streamername" and it plays.

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