Live broadcasts, chat and hearting

Sometimes, we receive emails and tweets from broadcasters and listeners who are worried about whether hearting and chatting during Mixlr broadcasts affects the listening experience for others – for example by introducing lag or other streaming problems.

We firmly believe that social interaction is at the heart of the Mixlr experience, so we thought we’d clarify this for everybody who has asked.

Chatting and hearting during a Mixlr broadcast does not affect the stream for yourself or for anybody else. This goes for broadcasters and listeners alike!

Chat messages take up a miniscule amount of bandwidth compared to the live audio, and are handled on completely different servers.

So you can listen, chat and heart as much as you want, without worrying about the stream.

Here’s our support article on the subject too.