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The CEO of streaming platform Twitch, Dan Clancy, has publicly spoken about the company’s recent layoffs, and revealed that right now, “we aren’t profitable.” This came during a community chat hosted on Twitch yesterday (January 11). Clancy stated: "We've implied this before, where we say we need to run it sustainably, but I'll be blunt: we aren't profitable at this point. Amazon has been extremely supportive of Twitch and a big thing for being sustainable over time is ensuring that we don't lose money.” It was confirmed on January 10 that the company is laying off over 500 people. At the time, Clancy said that “it has become clear that our organization is still meaningfully larger than it needs to be given the size of our business.” He added: "This decision, while incredibly difficult and painful, is necessary to ensure that we can continue to serve our streamers sustainably without impacting their ability to support their careers on Twitch.” Back to Clancy’s livestream, and the CEO reiterated his confidence to users of Twitch that “we’re still going to be able to service your needs.” “We’ve very focused on continuing to grow Twitch, and continuing to make Twitch the place it has been for so long,” he explained. “I want to be clear that we still have more than enough resources, we are still a reasonably sized organization. We’re still going to be able to service your needs, we’re still going to be able to improve the product. “We won’t be able to do as much as we would have done before, but I think we’re still going to see a lot happening in [2024] that you’ll be very excited about. [...] Our focus is on making Twitch the best place to live stream, the best place to build communities.” This week, it was also confirmed that both Unity and Discord are making large staff cuts, with Unity laying off around 1,800 people and Discord laying off 170. Looking for some new games to play? You can find some fantastic recommendations on our lists of the best PC games, best PS5 games and best Xbox Series X games. View the full article

We (the Ubuntu Community team) are delighted to invite you to the UbuntuOnAir YouTube and Twitch channels! These particular airwaves will hold community-focused Indabas, office hours, highly requested community interviews and will deliver Ubuntu/Open Source related workshops, host special events, and, hopefully, yes, play games. You can go over there right now to see what we have scheduled. In the spirit of ‘release early and release often’, there’s not much there yet, but there’s more in the pipe. So far we’ve got: Desktop Indaba live stream #1 April 23 (Available now) Community team office hours May 27th Desktop Indaba live stream #2 May 28th learn more Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi discussion June 1st Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash Context UbuntuOnAir is a YouTube channel that was once the place for Ubuntu Test Days, Docs days, and other community-related events. With the (re)introduction of a community team at Canonical, Community Representative Monica (@madhens), completed a retrospective report titled ‘The state of the Ubuntu community’. In the report (coming soon) numerous things were identified that led to the decline of the Ubuntu community, and of course, numerous things that the community enjoyed but were hurt but disappeared as the community fizzled. What we want to achieve In an attempt to give community projects and contributors a platform to talk about their work and interact with the community, we are restarting UbuntuOnAir as a community project. While we are Canonical employees, and the first x streams will predominantly feature Canonical people, UbuntuOnAir will only feature people with Ubuntu contributor hats on. For newbies, we want UbuntuOnAir to be a way to find out what’s going on and how it’s going. If one person interested in Ubuntu sees the channels, watches a stream, clicks a link, and starts contributing, we’ve succeeded. Get involved Obviously what’s there so far is pretty green and relatively little. We’re still in the getting start-up phase. But, there is always something you can do to help. The easiest thing is to come along to the streams that do exist and participate in the chat. If you have any thoughts or ideas about things we could stream about or ways you’d like to contribute you can head over to discourse and let us know. And if you’re interested in learning more you can read Monica’s summary over on her blog, or this article itself was condensed down from my personal blog that goes deeper into the why, the how, and our plans for the future. Photo by Stanley Li on Unsplash View the full article