Eddie's Stream on Saturday was a bit of a shit show.... with people struggling to signup for the "Kick" streaming service on short notice. "Kick" could not handle the huge influx on new signups and their email verification system almost collapsed.
I had 40+ people who tried to signup for "Kick" and 90% of them failed. When some of them eventually signed in, the video feed lagged so much, they could hardly hear and see anything.... and most of them had no video.
There is nothing wrong with Eddie trying something new, but they should give advanced notice when they are changing to a new platform, so that people can prepare for the change. Well, Stake benefited from this.... because loads of people could not claim the drops....at the end.. only 1200 people were connected to the Stream.
Trying something here and there is a common thing in the streaming world. The problem is that streaming is something that costs a lot, you can't just have a streaming service that provides for lets say 10 million people at the same time "just in case", that would cost you insane amount of money, so you arrange it in a way that is good enough, even barely enough for the amount of viewers you have.
So, when someone new comes along, they have to increase it right away to cover all the new people as well, but of course sometimes streaming services could be too late for that too. This is why I believe that moving to a new place should be on hold for a while until it's certain it can carry everyone.
