Twitch website (hence GraphQL endpoint too) support ascending sorting by viewers in /directory/all using VIEWER_COUNT_ASC option. Is there any plans of introducing sorting it for helix for /streams endpoint too?
It just looks as twitch is discouraging 3rd party apps of looking for smaller streamers for some reason.
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