A current work around is to have a chat bot post the url link in the chat but then the chat gets spammed. To mitigate that, url buttons can have timer and/or spend sparks but that's a bandaid to bandaid and way too complex just to go to someone’s twitter or discord. Bots whispering the url to the user is a slightly better work around but still not ideal. This is especially bad on the mobile app where you don't see the chat while using MixPlay so when you keep pressing a button to a donation link nothing happens and seems broken.

With the Beam Chat Bot API, you get several pieces of information about a particular user chats in your channel. You can figure out if they are a sub, moderator, pro user, staff, etc.

What you can't find out though is if they are a follower.

Most of the bots on beam do raffles. The majority that do raffles, also support "subscriber" and "follower" based raffles as well.

The Chat API tells you a person is a subscriber, but doesn't tell you if they are a follower. The only way you can figure out if a user is a follower is to use services like the Beam REST API and possibly Carina to track newer followers since the connection to the chat was made.

The problem with the REST API is the way you have to do your queries. To pull list of all the followers within the channel, you can only pull 50 at a time. So if we take the case of someone having 5000 followers, that's 100 REST API calls to pull follower information.

You can only do 100 queries within a minute due to rate limiting, so when trying to do giveaways, you're gonna hit issues with this if you're method is to pull all followers at one time for caching.

Other APIs allow you to query a user for all the people they are following. While the rate limit is higher, there are definitely scenarios where this is unmanageable. The call to do this is 500 calls a minute to query each user about their followers (and you can only get 50 at a time). So in the case of a FOLLOWER based raffle, if someone enters that has 5000 followers, and you're attempting to figure out if this particular user is following your channel, you can potentially waste up to 100 of those queries with just one check.

Right now, a few of the bots are using MULTIPLE IP addresses to get around the slowness and rate-limiting issues of the REST API to simply check if a person talking in your channel is a follower or not.

The new feature request is to add "FOLLOWER" as a role in the Beam Chat API along side of "Sub, mod, user, pro, staff" and others.

As soon as you have a streamer that regularly gets THOUSANDS of people in their channel and they want to do a follower-based raffle, this is going to greatly impact the ability to query the REST API.

Putting the FOLLOWER as a role within the Beam Chat API will greatly reduce traffic to the REST API endpoint server each time someone wants to run a follower raffle, and as a streamer who has been on this beam for awhile, EVERYONE likes to run follower raffles.

Please make this happen!

First off, I love the developer lab. I've messed with some interactive streams, and they were great! But it takes forever to set them up. The UI on the build page could be tweaked a little bit to help us save time while setting things up.

Here are some suggestions that would improve my workflow:
1. The ability copy controls and scenes
-I know they need to have unique names, but being able to copy them then renaming them would save a LOT of time
2. Let us resize the buttons in the X and Y axis at the same time. A corner resize option would be amazing. I know it's dumb, but resizing each button individually by having to drag 2 different sliders is a pain in the bum.
3. Lastly, this is more of a wishlist item. What if we could drag the buttons onto the grid, hit a button, and Mixer would auto size them all to fit? Resizing and positioning buttons is like 1/3 of the work

Thanks for everything you guys do! I am currently working on some crazy interactive things that I've never seen anyone do before - and I hope you'll enjoy them!

1. The [`PurgeMessage`](https://dev.mixer.com/reference/chat/index.html#chat__events__PurgeMessage) event should *always* include the `moderator` information, even when it is chained to a ban or timeout.
A [`UserUpdate`](https://dev.mixer.com/reference/chat/index.html#chat__events__UserUpdate) event should always include information about what user updated the roles (including, and especially, if they're staff), and the [`UserTimeout`](https://dev.mixer.com/reference/chat/index.html#chat__events__UserTimeout) event should be broadcast to everyone (it specifies the user who is timed out), and also include a `moderator` field.
3. It should be possible again to *mute* a user, by timing them out without purging their messages (sometimes you don't want them to disappear so people can understand why moderator action was taken). To complement this there should be a `mute` method on the chat socket API for this, a `/mute [user] [time]` command for it on the website, and a button in the user context menu.
4. Both timeouts and muting should work when the user is no longer connected to chat (currently doesn't).
5. I should be possible to restore/undelete deleted messages.
6. Lastly, there should be some facility to list all the timed out/muted users in a channel, including information about how long they would still last.

I m looking for a extension w overlay where I can add mores "streams"... multiple cams (ambient/external cam, mouse cam, cel NDI cam, gopro/wifi cam etc), multiple audio tracks (spotify - open that playlist and pause real time audio stream - and/or open lyrics for that song) etc, multiple dynamic popup/rollout overlays (sponsor/social media link, functional chat at full screen view, link to youtube highlight video, replay - open main stream 15s before in small overlay window, skype video/ discord audio call etc).

Mixer has ~7000 upolad "limit" and most of streamers hasn't 1 ~high-end pc to stream some games (like PUBG or any UE4 game, that needs ~all available bitrate/cpu to encode~) w all this in same OBS at 1080p (or another full high-end pc w capture card/NDI - but another medium ~ pc/notebook) ... well, just wondering something like this, a "multi twitch plus", where viewers can maximize/minimize/close/lower/mute/resize/reposition (drag) any overlay (and offload main OBS... "change scene" in a client plugin - and kinda viewer control over layout/cam/sound track - streamer still can lock a overlay cam/social/sponsor)

those things ll open the infinite ... play at one location, w other person mixing audio track or playing something else at other place/stream (deadmau5/alok or a rock band hahaha), lives w gameplay/IRL (cel/NDI cam on break, eating something and talking), far beyond collaboration stream w 2 players at same team/round.... only the main stream need be at mixer.com, the others may be at any provider that supports that new "mixer extension" .....

Any chance???

Tks for your attention

ps: NDI (newtek.com) can do everything, w several limitations (cpu/gpu/network usage)

ps2: w FTL and those features, mixer ll run over twitch/youtbe/cubetv

ps3: http://muxy.io has a extension that can overlay about everything but another stream

ps4: sorry about my english

Streamers would be able to post their schedule in their settings.

These schedules would then be searchable by users by looking for streams that are normally on during those hours. This will make looking for streamers that fit people's lives much easier.

For Example: I want to work out in the morning Monday-Wednesday around 6 AM and hang out in a stream during that workout for an hour every day. This always took a bit of grunt work due to having to search through streams and maybe get lucky finding one that would stream EVERY Monday - Wednesday.
This filter would obviously place LIVE people at the top, but this could also list offline people with the games that they usually play. (Maybe taken from the last 3 game titles they placed in their stream)

This will allow for connection of viewers and streamers in an almost futuristic way. Overall, more filtering options is always good and is a very weak spot when it comes to game streaming.

Thanks for reading!