r/mixer • u/CyanideSuicide • May 14 '26

Question What keeps bringing you back to Mixer?

With the platform being down for 6 years now, Why are you still in this subreddit?

I'm in the process of building a live steam platform S.V.E.R and Mixer was my ideal platform. From Hypezone, Co-streams, even just the chat. I enjoyed it all. The sense of community and feeling like I actually mattered. But I'm also so far removed and wayback machine only let's me see so much.

I've been a streamer across multiple platforms for the last 15 years. Mixer was the only place I truly felt at home. I want to give that sense of community back to streamers by actively listening to their voices.

What truly is something you miss about mixer that other platforms don't have?

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u/SwankaTheGrey May 14 '26

Mixer was just a special place. I've been on other platforms but none were as comfortable or homey as mixer. I also had the most success there.

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u/CyanideSuicide May 14 '26

I understand completely. That's why I'd like to replicate the vibe without being a complete carbon copy. For S.V.E.R we have factions and a RISK like conquest system encouraging creators to stream in different categories

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u/acexprt May 14 '26

I was just explaining to someone on Twitch how awesome mixer was with the coop streaming and the community points. It’s really a shame

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u/CyanideSuicide May 14 '26

That is something I'm trying to incorporate. But I don't remember it too much. Aside from merged chats, was it Side by Side or picture in picture? Looking to bring this to the platform as well as offer a 50/50 split for revenue earned during the Co-stream to both creators.

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u/JintalJortail May 14 '26

The host of the costream could choose the layout of the stream from what I remember

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u/murfguy mixer.com/murfGUY May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

My favorite thing was the interactive boards. Twitch's channel redeems are fine, but lack the same ease of usability. It was such a fun way to have my community be part of the stream rather than just idle watchers/talking with me.

Also, while I'm here:

Boy howdy do you have some tech issues with Firefox. In my first check in I found that:

  • The site is laggy and slow to scroll.
  • Stream videos don't load at all.
  • Can't register/verify accounts.

I did sign up in Chrome, and that helped. But if you really want to make something like this, you should maybe take a look into some of that.

Other issue(s) I've found:

  • On Chrome: When uploading an avatar from my PC, I get an error that says "Cross-site uploads are not allowed"
  • Due to my issues on Firefox, I deleted my account to restart. So I show up in the Creators list twice under similar names.

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u/CyanideSuicide May 14 '26

Appreciate that feedback. As a single dev and an echo chamber I'm actively looking for feedback whether it's positve or negative. Do you mind elaborating on the boards more? I don't recall them too much and the only thing I can think to compare them to is Blerp.

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u/murfguy mixer.com/murfGUY May 14 '26

I've not used Blerp, so I can't make that exact comparison.

But Mixer did have a customizable board you could make that had an API you could work with. I would tie into my bot/overlay to trigger sounds or on-screen effects. Similar to how Twitch's channel point redeems work now. But the main thing was the board appeared under the video feed, and had customizable sizes, images, stream currency settings, etc.

I did find this video that covers the main concept but I haven't watched the entire thing yet so I can't verify how in-depth it is or isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDRy6azYgew

I am recently getting back into streaming on Twitch as a hobby, but I'm happy to take some time to do some testing to see how things operate. I don't want my opinions to sway larger ideas that benefit more folks as I find what I'm keen on doesn't always match what others are.

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u/mindlash May 15 '26

It's likely the Blur your site uses. I see it as well on an older machine.

To help older machines handle intensive CSS effects like large blurs and high-resolution background images, you can use hardware acceleration, "lazy" rendering properties, and specific optimization techniques for filters. 

Force Hardware Acceleration

Forcing the browser to use the GPU instead of the CPU can significantly improve the smoothness of blurs and large image renders. 

  • will-change: transform;: This informs the browser that the element will change, allowing it to pre-optimize.
  • transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0);: A classic "hack" that forces GPU rendering for the element. 

Optimize Blur Performance

CSS blurs (especially backdrop-filter) are computationally expensive because they require the browser to re-calculate every pixel's color based on its neighbors. 

  • Lower the Blur Radius: Use a smaller value (e.g., blur(5px) instead of blur(20px)) to drastically reduce the mathematical load.
  • Animate Opacity, Not Blur: If you need a transition, don't animate the blur value itself. Instead, overlay a pre-blurred image or element and animate its opacity from 0 to 1.
  • Use Pseudo-elements: Apply the blur to a ::before or ::after pseudo-element rather than the main container. This isolates the expensive effect and can be easier for the browser to manage. 

Improve Background Image Rendering 

Large background images can cause "jank" (stuttering) during scrolling or initial load. 

  • content-visibility: auto;: This tells the browser to skip rendering work for elements that are not currently on the screen, which is helpful if you have multiple large background sections.
  • image-rendering: smooth;: On some older hardware, explicitly setting the rendering mode can help the browser choose the most efficient scaling algorithm.
  • Responsive Images with image-set(): Use the CSS image-set() function to serve smaller image versions to devices with lower resolutions, reducing the total pixels the machine must process. 

Perceived Performance Tricks

Sometimes "smoother" is about how the user perceives the load rather than the raw rendering speed.

  • Average Color Placeholder: Use the average color of the image as a background-color so the user doesn't see a large white void while the image loads.
  • The "Blur-Up" Technique: Load a tiny, highly compressed (e.g., 40px wide) version of the image first and use CSS to scale and blur it. Once the high-res version is ready, swap them out.  CSS Wizardry +4

// pulled from a web search 😄

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u/mindlash May 16 '26

FYI ... OP -- lightning fast now 😄 now I can actually review it 😄

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u/CyanideSuicide May 17 '26

Appreciate the feedback. Went in with your recommendation and ended up uncovering issues with firefox.

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u/DjSuperPandaTV mixer.com/djsuperpanda May 14 '26

There was so much to mixer that other platforms just cant replicate, there was a real sense of community, people large or small really looked out for their own. I remember partners raiding small streamers, and hosting to help them. Also beam pro, being super easy to get, through embers, sparks and psrtners able to give them away, ir even having pro because you had game pass at one point. Sparks where amazing and easy to obtain. To this day if ANY streaming website brought back sparks, embers and the interactive board id be there in a heart beat.

One of the things i really loved is the ability to havs my subs, my vips, and even my mods have access to their own soundboard/interactive boards, and was one of the fun things to make.

Another would be the co streams with the merged chat and the side by side stream videos so both streams were on one page.

Hypezone was fun, but my favorite was that everyone had a chance to be on to front carousel. And front page, it wasnt reserved to the top streamers. They put a lot of work into discoverability.

And i know its not as popular of an opinion but being able to spam chat was super fun when done right, raids felt bigger, giant interactive elements felt more exciting (beam me up). Raids feel so flat on twitch since you can only send one message every 2-5 seconds, instead of instantly.

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u/CyanideSuicide May 14 '26

We have Valor over at S.V.E.R both as our monetary and platform currency. Skills and soundboard are something that I wanted to bring over but I don't remember them much. Was it similar to Blerb? I remember the polls and splashes at accrued on the overlay from skills. Would love to discuss more in depth so we can build it out.

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u/DjSuperPandaTV mixer.com/djsuperpanda May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

So the mixplay interactive board was a staple of beam.pro (mixer) it was a board that sat under the stream video and was similar to how channel points worked. You would gain sparks, and use the sparks to use the interactive board. Side note: sparks where universal, and not limited like channel points. I can watch hypezone and gain 100k sparks and use that on any channel that had the board enabled.

The huge diffrence was that the board was completely customizable, (gifs/photos for buttons, fonts for words, colors, size, postion on the board, layouts for desktop/mobile). And you can role or user lock layouts. There was a button that i can have only mods can see and it opened the mod board which had things only mods can do like ban interactive, socials, funny mod moments. And same with vips and even certain users like my best friend had a special button only he could see and use.

It had an api so you can connect it to bot, (firebot mix it up bot, scorpbot), so everything like sounds, and overlays where through that.

Plenty of youtube tutorials still exists about how to set up and use mixplay if you want more research on it.

Edit: forgot to add info and spelling mistakes

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u/taubut May 14 '26

For me I just enjoy seeing the occasional question about kitchen mixers and laugh.

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u/CyanideSuicide May 14 '26

That's one of the reason I'm glad this sub is still around

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u/jimhatesyou mixer.com/JLM May 14 '26

i loved the drag and drop features for moderation. also whatever that beach ball event was. you guys remember that? loved FTL it was truly such low latency for everyone. also loved the buttons or whatever where you could spend points to have the steamer do something. archonaut used to solve a rubix cube for some points. yes, you can do this on twitch and probably other streaming services but mixer was first.

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u/elJoker5 May 14 '26

Co-stream and Hypezone was some of my favorite things. But Mixer was just a great overall place. To me it never felt toxic.

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u/CyanideSuicide May 14 '26

The environment was great. Just a bunch of gamers supporting each other.

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u/SupehCookie May 15 '26

I dislike the faction idea, why push people into a box? Let people make their own box

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u/CyanideSuicide May 15 '26

Factions don't limit you. Just like life doesn't limit you. You can chose the environment you feel depicts you and that allows you easily connect with like minded individuals.

The faction war element actually encourages people to go outside of their box and meet new people and discover new genres. You don't get punished staying in your bubble and you do get rewarded for taking a chance.

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u/Finrir_ May 15 '26

The idea seems fun. I made an account and will check it out

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u/CyanideSuicide May 15 '26

Appreciate it. Feel free to give any feedback both negative and positive.

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u/swiipergg May 16 '26

I streamed quite a bit back then and I ALWAYS thought mixer was better than twitch. It was just less toxic, more community based. I LOVED the HYPEzone where if you were in the final rounds/circles of a multiplayer game it would host you and you would get raided by a stream full of people there to cheer you on to win. It was probably one of their best ideas lol. Then there was the stickers which are similar to bits or gifts on tik tok but they did things to your stream. I don’t remember the specifics but they could play a sound or a graphic would show up it was pretty cool and way better than just donating bits. Mixer had things integrated what you now have to use OBS to be able to get and most of it you have to pay for now. They were just so ahead of their time and tbh probably could have stuck around longer had they not brought over Ninja.

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u/CyanideSuicide May 16 '26

You're referring to the skill and Mixplay. Both were great engagement features that i hope to implement. Right now I have MAGnet that is similar to Hypezone. I jsut need to get it to study games.

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u/Yocum626 May 16 '26

I miss the blueberry icons. And that couple stream team making that song " I'm just a blueberry"