Just curious. Also, it seems like if a stream has over 20k viewers for too long it ends up dying, but not sure if it's related.
Posted Sep 9, 2021, 8:43 PM UTC
Lol, I noticed that too and made a post asking the same thing like 10 minutes ago
LOL that's great. I was debating all day today whether to post about it or not and finally said fuck it.
I think they're opening up rpan to more IP addresses across reddit. Maybe why the glitches lately
this makes sense
Prob a bunch of bots
You know, I think you might be right, at least partially. Ever since the numbers have gone up on these streams I get asked to chat with new accounts that have 1 karma. Made the mistake of accepting one and it was an obvious phishing attempt, with whomever on the other end calling me "babe" within the first five minutes. Seems like they're looking for gullible people to scam.
I think what you're seeing is just the natural growth of RPAN as well as with what I think (in my opinion) is a pretty great discovery system PLUS the way Reddit set up the home page to include RPAN streams. I think I can go into detail if you're interested.
They're just displaying top broadcasts on more front pages, but if you have insider knowledge I'd love to know more. It should be an indicator of the new admin team getting things done behind the scenes, and welcome change.
I unfortunately don't have any insider knowledge, just personal experience with streaming and content creating on different platforms.
I think it would make for an interesting conversation though.
It is a combo of organic growth and increased capacity. Organic growth is coming from higher quality content increasing engagement time of users. Increased capacity is Reddit offering more infrastructure and prominence in the everyone’s feeds. It is the recipe for rapid growth.
I rarely get over 80 people tbh, I’ve had 1,000+ I think 3 times and I’ve been streaming since the end of 2019
I think the views are being artificially manipulated in order to make RPAN seem more popular. There’s no way the views would increase threefold overnight for a natural growth. There is no increase in upvotes or comments, even when the views are 3 times higher. It just doesn’t make sense that the views actually increased, but rather that they are purposely inflating the numbers
This.
more and more users are discovering live streams on reddit. I think before not everyone was seeing live streams on their feed, but now they do. I made a new account (this one) and live streams was one of the first things I saw without joining any subs yet. I am migrating from my old account u/Todd_Lancing because made up names are weird to be called out loud.
FWIW I definitely have experienced a large increase in viewers, commenters, and upvotes. My guess here is that the live streaming service is being displayed on more homepages, to more eyeballs, and that those are being counted as viewers.
Engagement is a separate can of worms, and I try and measure that by quantity of comments, upvotes, awards, tips, etc.
Just my best guesstimate here, but I believe that the top stream is being placed in front of more eyeballs, and then it is up to the broadcaster to encourage engagement.
Just my take, but my best advice is to enjoy the ride :-)
I’m just bored with it now. The novelty wore off and it’s pretty consistently the same type of streams over and over.
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I think this is on the right track. I think eyeballs seeing the top stream are being counted as viewers. Engagement on the stream is a different story, and the more important metric IMHO.
These things have been up across the board for me lately so just trying to have fun with it and enjoy the increased exposure.
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That is very kind, thank you! I honestly love to play/sing/write more than almost anything. It's so much fun. Thanks for stopping in!