Developers need a Follower tag for chat

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@BarryCarlyon

Fetch all followers at TTS Application boot, update internal followers list via webhooks.

or

When someone says something in chat for the first time that day, fetch their follow status

This would only provide a temporary solution that would break as soon as someone in that list unfollowed. Then we’d continue this never ending recursive argument as shown in this thread about polling the API when there shouldn’t be a need if you’re connecting to Twitch via their IRC servers just to obtain a simple relationship between viewer and channel.

@BarryCarlyon

That only works if you have been working with that streamed since they got a sub button, if suddenly I start working with Ninja tomorrow, I don’t have the cached data to form a cached collection of streaks to do this math or comparison on.

You got me there, but then again there should have been an implementation in the API to resolve this issue from the start knowing a vast majority of developers may want such statistics instead of me sitting here explaining a somewhat accurate workaround to fiddle with in the API.

@BarryCarlyon

If you are using TTS on a channel with millions of followers, and thus logically even 1000 of them turn up to a stream, your TTS will never catch up.

This is true, but yet again a workaround can be implemented to check a multitude of things such as sifting through a queue of messages of followers who have been following the longest and/or cheered the most, skipping every few messages or even speeding up the TTS output.

@BarryCarlyon

Edit: also this excludes the probability that a large streamer is more likely to have Followers only mode on in chat. Which makes the whole follow check redundant

I would imagine someone taking advantage of the NOTICE command to avoid such a redundant check against whether or not they should be checking if follower only mode is enabled/disabled.