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SlakBot Mod View Several chats, one viewer card

A desktop app that lets you work several Twitch chats at once as a moderator. If SlakBot runs in the channel, the viewer's history sits next to it.

Ask for access in the Discord What else SlakBot does

A small group of moderators is running the app right now. There is deliberately no download button here yet. Worth knowing before you ask: the app's interface is in Dutch. This page is English, the program is not.

Windows
No macOS or Linux
Free
For moderators
Dutch
Language of the interface
90 days
Moderation history

What is it?

Mod View is a Windows program in which you put the chats of your channels side by side and moderate from there. Chatting and moderating is something any client can do. The point is what sits next to the chat: the viewer card.

The app is free for moderators. It exists to show what SlakBot keeps track of in a channel, not to earn anything from it.

The core

The viewer card

What a chat client cannot keep track of, because it wasn't there.

A chat connection starts at the moment you open it. Mod View puts a stretch of chat from just before that moment at the top, but that is the last stretch of chat, not months of it. Anyone who says nothing while you are watching, and anything someone did last month, is not in there.

SlakBot sits there the whole time. If the bot runs in the channel, every name comes with what the bot has recorded. That is exactly what you need for the question you have to answer at the moment you step in: is this a regular who slipped up, or someone who just walked in to stir things up?

From Twitch What it says
Account since The date the account was created, and how long ago that was.
Follows Since when this viewer has followed the channel, or "no".
Status Not banned, timed out until a given moment, or permanently banned — with who did it and the reason. Only in your own channel: Twitch hands the ban list to the streamer alone, so in someone else's channel this row stays on "unknown", with that reason next to it.
From SlakBot What it says
Messages How much this viewer has chatted in this channel.
Watched The estimated watch time, if the channel keeps track of it.
Coming here since The first time SlakBot saw this viewer here.
Last seen Date and time of the most recent visit.
Moderation (90 days) Time-outs, bans and deleted messages, with how many of them came from a human and how many from the bot.

Four rules the card sticks to

Unknown is not zero

If SlakBot doesn't know something, the card says why it isn't there — not a 0 that you read as "this person has never done anything here".

Watch time is an estimate, and says so

SlakBot counts per block who was in the chat, not the actual watch time. So the card writes "≈ 87 hours" and not "87 hours". If the channel doesn't track watch time, it says "not tracked here".

Ninety days, not "never"

The mod log is cleared after 90 days. So it says "no moderation action in the last 90 days" — a clean slate from last year is not proof.

This channel only, and only what you need

Everything is limited to the channel you're looking at: a moderator of channel A does not get to see how someone behaved in channel B. Coins, XP and leaderboard position are not on the card — the economy is not a moderation signal.

And then the buttons

From the card you hand out a time-out (10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 24 hours), warn someone, delete a message, ban them or send a whisper. Every button is one click, ban included: a threshold you click away dozens of times per stream stops being a threshold. The safety net is the lift button: it sits next to the ban, both on the chat line and on the card, and it reverses a time-out or a ban — later on as well, not only in the seconds right after. If you also want a strip with an undo button just after the action, you switch that on in Settings at 3, 5 or 10 seconds; by default the strip is off. Deleting a message has no undo, and the card says so. Only Shield Mode still asks for a second click, because that one locks the chat for everyone at once.

The rest of the toolkit

What else it does

Chat and panels

Chats side by side

Columns next to each other, panels stacked within a column, and tab groups along the top. After a restart the layout comes back the way you left it.

What was there before you opened it

When you open a channel, a stretch of chat from before that moment appears at the top. Twitch doesn't supply that itself; it comes from recent-messages.robotty.de, an outside service, so the name of the channel goes there. Can be switched off.

The stream alongside

The Twitch player as a panel next to the chats, muted when it opens. What that costs in memory is further down, unvarnished.

Drag and resize

Drag a panel by its header to the edge of another panel. Pull the divider between two columns to make them wider or narrower; a double-click divides them evenly again.

Messages over IRC, moderation over EventSub

Measured across 1,656 messages: EventSub arrived later than IRC in all 1,656 cases — median 53 ms, p10 39, p90 83. So messages come in over IRC. Moderation events stay on EventSub — those don't exist in structured form on IRC.

Multiple Twitch accounts

Several accounts in the same encrypted vault, one active. Per account you can see whether it still has all the permissions, so you don't switch to an account where half the app doesn't work.

Moderation

Four icons by every name

Time-out, lift, delete message and ban, in the chat line itself. All four are one click. Reversing is done with that lift button, later on as well; a strip with an undo button right after the action is off by default and can be set to 3, 5 or 10 seconds in Settings. A deleted message does not come back, and the app says so.

Your own button row

In the settings you decide yourself which buttons are there and in what order. Several time-outs each with their own duration is allowed.

One AutoMod queue for everything

A single queue across all open channels, with the part AutoMod found suspicious marked — so you can see why something is held. If a colleague decides first, the line disappears by itself.

Suspicious viewers

Who Twitch flags as a ban evader or banned elsewhere. That judgement is Twitch's and not ours, and the card says so.

Shield Mode

The status per channel in the panel header, to switch on and off. If a colleague turns it on, you see it happen.

Viewer list with roles

Who is in the chat right now, per channel and searchable, in groups: streamer, moderators, VIPs and viewers, with counts. The roles are read off the badges of whoever has said something, and the list is a snapshot with the time it was fetched next to it — not a live list.

Emotes and appearance

Emotes from all four

7TV, BetterTTV, FrankerFaceZ and Twitch, animated emotes and 7TV overlays included. If a streamer adds one mid-stream, it's there straight away.

Badges side by side

Twitch, 7TV and FrankerFaceZ. If FFZ says a badge replaces a Twitch badge, that is respected — otherwise both are shown.

Name colours and 7TV paints

Gradients and all. Not decoration: the colour tells you faster than the name itself that someone is a regular.

Overview panels

Mentions

A side panel with everything your name or an alert word appears in, across all open channels at once.

Activity

Subscriptions, gifts, raids, announcements — and what other moderators did, even when none of it shows up in the chat.

Alert words

Your own words that light up and beep just like your own name does. The bell in the top bar mutes the sound.

Whispers

Receiving and replying. Sending requires a verified phone number on your Twitch account; the panel tells you that before you type a reply that will never arrive.

Search

Through everything the app saw this session. No further: there are no chat logs on your disk, and there is nothing to dig back through later.

From the beta

What the testers make of it

Discord message in Dutch from tester Jelle about Mod View, with a screenshot of the app in it
"ik gebruik nu ongeveer een weekje de slakbot mod view, het is een heel overzichteelijk en gebruikersvriendelijk programma een echte aanrader!"

Original message in Dutch — translation: "I've been using the SlakBot Mod View for about a week now, it's a really clear and user-friendly program, definitely recommended!"

J
Jelle
Moderator · runs Mod View in the beta
Discord message in Dutch from Koenert04 about Mod View
"Slakbot is een snel werkend programma waarmee ik de chat beter kan moderaten dan via Twitch zelf. Grootste voordeel ten opzichte van andere programma's als chatterino is dat ik de stream zelf ook kan afspelen via dit programma. Hierdoor kan ik meerdere streams tegelijk kijken en moderaten. Chats verschijnen vaak sneller in slakbot dan via Twitch zelf. Hierdoor kan ik nare berichten sneller onderscheppen. Al met al ben ik erg tevreden met slakbot mod view en zal ik dit zeker aanraden aan andere mensen die moderaten."

Original message in Dutch — translation: "Slakbot is a fast program that lets me moderate chat better than through Twitch itself. The biggest advantage over other programs like chatterino is that I can play the stream itself through this program as well. That way I can watch and moderate several streams at once. Chats often show up sooner in slakbot than through Twitch itself, so I can intercept nasty messages faster. All in all I am very happy with slakbot mod view and I would certainly recommend it to other people who moderate."

K
Koenert04
Runs Mod View in the beta
Discord message in Dutch from RivanG about Mod View
"Slakbot is wat mij betreft een ontzettend handig en goed uitgewerkt programma. De interface is zeer overzichtelijk en intuïtief, waardoor je er ook als beginner snel mee aan de slag kunt. Alles voelt logisch aan en je hoeft geen uitgebreide technische kennis te hebben om het programma optimaal te kunnen gebruiken. Wat ik persoonlijk het meest waardeer, is hoeveel je tegelijkertijd kunt overzien. Je hebt veel meer informatie binnen handbereik, waardoor je nauwelijks iets mist van wat er binnen je kanalen gebeurt. Het programma biedt naar mijn mening een enorme meerwaarde. Ik zou Slakbot dan ook zonder twijfel aanraden aan iedereen die op zoek is naar een overzichtelijke, gebruiksvriendelijke en efficiënte oplossing."

Original message in Dutch — translation: "As far as I am concerned Slakbot is an extremely handy and well worked-out program. The interface is very clear and intuitive, so you can get going with it quickly even as a beginner. Everything feels logical and you do not need extensive technical knowledge to get the most out of it. What I personally value most is how much you can keep an eye on at once. You have far more information within reach, so you barely miss anything that happens in your channels. In my view the program offers enormous added value. I would recommend Slakbot without hesitation to anyone looking for a clear, user-friendly and efficient solution."

R
RivanG
Runs Mod View in the beta
Discord message in Dutch from DwightHandKwijt about Mod View
"slakbot is een chill mod progamma goed overzichtelijk en makkelijk ingebruik gebruik het nu een poosje en werkt perfect"

Original message in Dutch — translation: "slakbot is a chill mod program, nice and clear and easy to use, been using it for a while now and it works perfectly"

D
DwightHandKwijt
Runs Mod View in the beta
Fair is fair

What you should know

Things you'd rather read before installing than after.

The interface is in Dutch

Every menu, button and label in the app is Dutch. There is no English version of the interface. This page is written in English so you can decide before you ask for access, not after you've installed it.

Windows only

There are no builds for macOS and Linux, and there won't be. That is a choice, not a backlog item.

Streams cost memory

Measured: the first stream panel costs hundreds of megabytes — a good 700 MB, between +625 and +720 across runs. Every one after that costs tens of megabytes up to a bit over a hundred, and that differs per stream. It comes on top of OBS and a game. One extra stream is a reasonable choice, four is not on most machines. The app imposes no limit on you — it just doesn't hide the bill.

The viewer card needs two switches

Numbers only appear once (1) Mod View is switched on for the channel and (2) you link the app once. That first switch is off by default and only a Discord admin of the server can set it — it's the streamer's audience, so it isn't a moderator's call. And the state of it today: that switch isn't in the SlakBot panel yet, while that is the case it can only be switched on by hand, per server — ask about it in the Discord. If either one is missing, the card says so in as many words instead of showing zeros.

Signing in with your own Twitch account

Through Device Code Flow: a Twitch page opens with the code already filled in, you confirm, done. After that the app remembers it. The token is stored encrypted on your own disk.

What goes out to other parties

Twitch gets your token and what you're looking at; without that there is no app. Two others get something as well, both with their own switch in the settings. The chat from before you opened a channel comes from recent-messages.robotty.de, an outside service, and the name of that channel goes there — so which channels you open, and when, is known to a server that is neither Twitch's nor ours. And 7TV gets the Twitch ID of every chatter the app doesn't know yet, because otherwise there are no badges and no name colours. FrankerFaceZ gets nothing about viewers, BetterTTV only channel IDs.

In someone else's channel you read along

You can open any Twitch channel to read and chat. Twitch refuses moderation there, so those buttons aren't shown — with the label "not a mod" in the panel header, so you know why.

Closed beta

Joining the beta

A small group of moderators is running Mod View right now. There is no public download on this site yet; that will come. If you'd like to join earlier, ask for access in the Discord — you'll hear straight away what's expected: use the app and say what isn't right.

Mod View costs moderators nothing. If SlakBot isn't running in the channel the app still works — you only miss the card, and the app tells you so. Do keep in mind that the interface is Dutch.

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