Moderation Action PubSub topic only works on own Channel?

[simoniz0r]

And the silent followers API changes… Twitch has not been speaking up about changs much at all lately.

[Dist]

@simoniz0r

When something has worked one way for years,

Everything is subject to change, and if it’s not something Twitch ever said would work one way or another then they’re really under no obligation to say anything. You made an assumption, and if you didn’t design your app to fail gracefully and it fell over on itself because a change happened, well hopefully it’ll be a learning experience.

[Tomm]

@simoniz0r

silent followers API changes

interesting, what changed with that?

[BarryCarlyon]

The issues with followers is likely a bug, and has been discussed in other topic, which you already posted in here Kraken: /streams/followed not ordered by viewers

@simoniz0r please do not change the general thread of a topic from OP’s original subject, as the whole thread has become derailed.

As has already been covered the undocumented moderator topics have now become documented and now have alternative requirements to what it used to have now that it’s documented and supported.

The changes/bugs to followers is not relevant to this thread, nor is Twitch’s choice in how it communicates.

Please take discussion of these to their original threads or start a new thread. Primarily to avoid notification spam to OP for replies not relevant to their initial thread.

[tduva]

@Dist

Or are you referring to Twitch putting further restrictions on undocumented endpoints because they are unsupported and were never intended for 3rd party use? As has always been said on this forum, if you use undocumented endpoints you use them at your own risk, and at potential violation of the developer agreement. Undocumented endpoints can and will change/break at any time and without warning, so those who use them do so knowing full well it’s their own fault if they utilise them in production and their app breaks due to a change.

The moderator actions PubSub topic may not have been officially supported, but given that Twitch Staff announced it on this forum and discussed it’s use with third-party developers, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to consider using it. It’s not like people found out about it by looking at the Twitch website with debugging tools, like it may be with some other APIs.

@BarryCarlyon

Course we have centralized tooling to the channel(s) so making a fix so it works for all the mods is straightforward.

Yes, with a centralized tool that will work. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for everything.

[tduva]

@BarryCarlyon

Yes it’s an annoying change. But it is what it is. Now that the topic is officially supported by third parties we can ask for things to be added to it.

I added a uservoice for this: Moderator Actions PubSub topic should work for all moderators of the channel – Twitch UserVoice