This page walks through first use, authorization, and the main display so you can confidently operate Whozon during live sessions.
When you first start Whozon by accessing the website, it will prompt you to authorize access via Twitch. The authorization permits the program to act on your behalf and query Twitch for information about your channel so it can be displayed in the application. Only the scopes required for this access are requested and if future versions require more scope access or less, the scope will be adjusted to insure only the required information and access is included. Authorizing through Twitch only grants the application the ability to query your Twitch records to display the information. We are preserving only the minimal results from those queries - i.e. some data is cached so it can be displayed without having to repeatedly make the same queries. Nothing of your Twitch Accounts private information - username and password for instance - is accessed by the application. That is why you are taken to the Twitch website to grant access, its to preserve your security.
Once you have authorized access, Whozon will take you to the main page and display your channel information. Thats it, there is nothing to download or install, its a purely web based app running on the Whozon server.
Whozon uses Twitch authorization so actions are performed with your account permissions. If authorization expires, Whozon refreshes the token in the background when possible.
The main display combines status, channel navigation, summary metrics, viewer and moderator lists, symbols legend, and raid targets in a single operational view.
The Mode selector at the top allows you to choose in what capacity you wish to operate Whozon. The default mode is as a streamer and this provides the most utility to a user. Moderator mode will show a list of Twitch channels belonging to other streamers on which you are authorized to act as a moderator, will switch you to moderating their channel instead of your own and give you access to a lesser selection of abilities, solely related to moderation. The Viewer mode simply lets you add channels you like to watch and will show when they are online.
Use Emote, Follower, Subs, and Slow mode toggles for targeted chat control. The Panic button applies or clears all supported chat restrictions at once for rapid response. This is intended primarily as a quickly accessible method to control your chat if a problem arises. Panic Mode has saved at least one streamer who tested it from having a disastrous event ruin their streaming experience.
Use the navigation buttons under the channel name card to move between pages. Viewers is the main operations page; the others are focused workflow pages. Note than when sitting on the Raid Config, Stream Info or Settings pages, viewer and moderator updates and text to speech are paused until you return to the Viewers page.
The viewers list is where you perform quick moderation and role actions. NOTE: It is highly suggested to new streamers that even though they can see the viewers who are in their chat, they do NOT call them out or mention the fact they are there. Many viewers like to "lurk" and check out you and your stream without committing to being present. Only talk to a viewer who has spoken up in chat first.
NOTE: Twitch viewers displayed are those reported by Twitch. Twitch can take time to detect the presence of a viewer and may not update the info that Whozon requests for display immediately. Twitch cannot detect a viewer who is using an embedded client and therefore may fail to list them at all. Displaying your viewers list accurately is a bit trixy. Please don't blame Whozon, blame Twitch :)
The moderators panel lists active channel moderators and offers role management shortcuts.
Raid targets show saved channels and current live state so you can decide and launch quickly.