Do you always keep your VODs up?

I’ve been streaming for a few years and have gone back and forth on this a lot (in my mind), and I’m curious what you prefer not just as a streamer, but also as a viewer.

I have always kind of liked the idea of not keeping VODs up on the channel because it makes it feel like a fun thing that you just “had to be there for”, if that makes sense. It can make it feel really special in a way. But I ultimately have always chosen to leave it just in case anyone wanted to watch it later because they didn’t have time to watch while live.

Another main reason is because I know how it feels when you’re playing an online game and you see that your opponent is live, so you go to check, only to find that they don’t have their VOD up. Not a huge deal. Just kind of a bummer. Would this deter you from chatting in a stream? Because I completely understand wanting to check and see if the vibes are good or not.

If any of you have VOD publishing automatically turned off and then you manually make it public- do you and your community seem happy with that? I’m just super curious because I keep going back and forth about what the better options are. What do you think? What is your preferred method?