Afreeca Streams Thread

First off, go to the website afreeca.com. Making an account is recommended, but not necessary. Click on the circle highlighted to launch the web player.

If this is your first time, say yes to downloading the program/plugin. During the installation, you can uncheck everything since spam is bad.

The image should be self-explanatory

You can customize it by clicking on the top rightmost button, which I forgot to highlight. That, in itself, should be self-explanatory too.

First, click on the highlighted button, 게임.
Once selected, it should roll down even more options. You want to click on the one I have highlighted, 스타.
And there we go, all the Starcraft streams.

Find the search bar, highlighted in the picture.
With this method, you can be more specific with your search. Type in whatever. In this case, I plugged in Sonic's Afreeca ID "sogoodtt". Some other popular streams are "h78rt" (Killer) "aiseiteru99" (Hiya) "cksgmldbs" (Mong), etc etc.

If you typed it in correctly and they're online, you should get a result like this. Notice how of the 3 results, there's one w/ a different view count. That's a "Relay Room", which is created when a broadcaster's room is full. You can use this search method to find a broadcaster's relay room when their main room is full.

So you wanna watch the broadcast, but you don't know what to click. There are three different things you can click

Clicking on the image to the left will initiate the broadcast. Once you click on it, the Broadcast window should go black and start loading. Ads need to load before you can watch a stream, and it can take a looooooooooong time to load. Make sure you have ad-block turned off.

The two buttons highlighted on the bottom do two different things. The left button will take you to the BJ's home page. The right button will give you 3 more options:
-Top button is "Pop-up" which spawns another Afreeca player, with less options.
-Second button is PIP, which spawns another broadcast within the broadcast you are already watching. Broadcastception
-Third button is "Mini-Mode", which is pretty much the same thing as the pop-up player ..

I feel this particular tidbit deserves a section by itself, because this is the best way one can support.

The "Recommend" button is the one highlighted in the picture. You can give it to each BJ once a day. If your popup blocker is off, then it will pop up a window giving you the option to post on the broadcaster's msg board (you can't anyways lol).

Doing this on a regular basis will increase the broadcaster's ranking, and exposure. If you want to support, but don't have money to give, this is the best way to do it.

There are numbers top-left of each thing that I will explain

1 - Logout
2 - Toggles chat box on and off
3 - Toggles Broadcast list on and off
4 - Title of the broadcast
5 - BJ's Afreeca ID
6 - Information about the Broadcast, comes up if you move your mouse over the stream. In the order, its:
      -Views by PC, Mobile, Relay Room, and total viewers that watched since it started.
      -Then it the 2000k is the quality.
      -Then it shows the resolution of the Broadcast.
      -And finally, it shows which date the broadcast was started, and for how long it's been running
7 - Aspect ratio options
8 - Stop player
9 - Sound Control
10 - Give Balloons (money required)
11 - Give Stickers (Money required)
12 - Give Recommend (Boosts ranking, no money required)
13 - Add to bookmarks/favorites
14 - Previously seen Broadcast history
15 - Users who are viewer, sorted by ID and then their nickname
16 - Chat room
17 - chat box

On the "Broadcast List" box, you notice there's a second tab "즐겨찾기" That's your bookmarks/favorites list

It'll show all your favorites that are online, and the offline ones too. The button by the Refresh button top right, "목록편집" will toggle the ability to delete streams from your favorites. To delete, click on the grey circle w/ an x in it on the top right of the stream preview image.

Afreeca is a P2P based connection system, instead of a server-based. The more viewers there are, the more chatting there's going on, the further away you are from Korea, the laggier your stream is gonna be. Unless you have a fucken boss internet, lag will be unavoidable w/ the more popular streams.

Prime time Afreeca is night-late night at Korea. There are some BJs who leave a restream on 24/7 or play/stream at weird hours, but most of them don't stream until that time.

If you wanna chat and stuff, you have to verify yourself by sending an ID to Afreeca. I haven't bothered doing this myself, so I don't know all the details