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I've been able to get to the point where Sery_Bot can be in your Twitch channel full time. No more joining/leaving when you stream. Now it's always there when you need him. Seems like a small change at the surface, but finally can say it's done. Storytime in the thread 🧵

It seems like a silly thing to announce, when so many other bots can and already stay in your stream 24/7, so why did it take me so long? Back when scaling up the bot, I wasn't verified by Twitch. I had a hell of a time with bot stability until then. Rate limits are brutal.

So, why not do this sooner? I certainly could have, but there are costs I pay for. Over 160k streamers have set up Sery_Bot. Whether live or not, that's a huge number to manage. I try to keep my server costs manageable, especially for offering a FREE service to the community.

Twitch set up a much more scalable, resilient, and quite frankly a better system for larger bots like mine to manage channels at scale. Last year I moved the bulk of Sery_Bot over to the new conduits system, except for chat. Now chat is done.

Twitch's new system isn't 100% ported over, like I'd still like to see certain user events that IRC has that conduits doesn't, but it's good enough for me to utilize, and a great improvement over managing thousands of IRC channels.