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Awesome to hear feedback from someone at Twitch - to answer your questions:

- Absolutely. As the largest video platform, there's a ton of great content produced on YouTube everyday. Not to mention, a growing number of legally available shows (including Bob Ross!) on YT. YT is also just a starting point.

- We're working with several notable YT creators to bring them in as partners. In comparison to Twitch, we're focused on pre-existing content that can be watched as live channels.

I agree. However, we're open to trying suggestions that are reasonable and feasible for us to implement without tying up too much time. His/her suggestion took less than 30 seconds and has a relatively minor impact on the site. We'll change it back if we don't feel its a good fit.

Yes, we even had a stream go up yesterday for Kobe's final NBA game. Realtime chat was fun to watch as the game unfolded.

Currently channels are meant to be available to everyone with no age/content restrictions from our part. Any inappropriate content will be flagged and removed.

However, since videos are sourced from platforms like YouTube and Vimeo, they may impose their own restrictions such as unavailability in certain regions. We've started adding more video platforms to ensure there's content available for all regions.

The realtime chat is disabled on small mobile screens because there just isn't a lot of space. The chat is enabled for tablets and larger screens.

Thanks for the feedback. We're starting with YouTube & Vimeo videos because there's an endless pool of great content to start with and embedding is built-in. Not to mention, content creators continue to benefit from ad revenue.

We'd love to add Netflix shows for live streaming in the future. We've had a lot of people suggest the same.

We're still figuring out which direction to go one several features. We disabled the controls bar (incl. vol) so each channel feels more like a live stream where you can't pause/skip through the video. However, you can still use the keyboard to control volume (up/down keys)

But we're going to give it try: we've re-enabled the control bar. Thanks for the feedback

We've opened up access so anyone can create a channel. It's pretty easy: just pick a channel name and add videos.

Here are some live channels we created from our favorite shows:

VSauce, Numberphile, Veritasium: http://www.horde.tv/channels/mind-blowing-science

Interviews from Startup School: http://www.horde.tv/channels/startup-interviews

TEDx: http://www.horde.tv/channels/ted-talks

This looks really fun, but I can imagine a few pissed off folks seeing what they missed out on.

Trying to force asteroids away are we?