#Twitch build software
But Everblack, a software engineer by day, thinks that the leak of creator payout data only affirms her feeling that Twitch’s priority is to cater to the streamers that bring in the most money. The leak included data like source code, proprietary software development kits (SDKs) and an unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios. “It’s been kind of apparent that safety and security was never at the forefront of what Twitch was doing to begin with.” “I think it was only a matter of time that something like this would happen,” said Lucia Everblack, a transgender streamer who was one of the organizers of the #ADayOffTwitch boycott. Though Twitch has added new safety features since, tensions remain high in the community. After marginalized creators were repeatedly targeted by hateful bot attacks, some streamers rallied the community to boycott the platform on September 1 for #ADayOffTwitch, which caused the platform’s peak concurrent viewership to drop 1 million viewers below average. These leaks follow a rocky few months for the Amazon-owned platform, which - as of earlier this year - represented 72.3% of live video game streaming viewership, remaining dominant over platforms like Facebook Gaming and YouTube Gaming. For many streamers, this leak exacerbates existing tensions over pay transparency in streaming and safety on Twitch. The streaming platform said in a blog post that the leak was caused by an error in a Twitch server configuration change, which was then accessed by a malicious third party. Twitch confirmed yesterday that a massive cache of internal data, including creator payouts, was published online after a breach.
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