This is one of those deals you always love to see, and REALLY hate to miss - I think many are lamenting missing the Restream deal and may not have been satisfied with other offers that have come and gone since then. But alas, here comes Switchboard to save us!

Let's do a quick run down, shall we?

The UI. It's solid. It's not "ultra modern" but it's also not out-dated, so it's easy to look at and use (and use it you will - I'll get into that later!).

The UX. Also, solid. Simply navigate around using the hamburger menu, access all of the features available and you're good to go (like a Crunchwrap Supreme for all of my Taco Bell commercial addicts!). There is no bloat. There are no distractions. it just...works.

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Time to re-focus!

So why the 5 tacos?

First offf, and I go into this in greater detail in my review on my Typehut page, but...the Encoder Workflows and Groups are actually really nice. Does it require me to touch the platform more often? Yes. With Restream, you more or less "set it and forget it," whereas Switchboard requires you to be more hands-on. At first, I didn't like this, but the more I analyzed it, this is actually a really useful feature and design decision.

Secondly, and there honestly might not be much behind this, but in Streamlabs OBS, Switchboard is one of the listed streaming providers - there's a bit of peace in mind knowing they're recognized, unlike OneStream which is new to this space (but at least they delivered on their promise - rejoice!).

Thirdly, you can toggle a low latency mode, which while it doesn't give you the FTL streaming that Mixer did...*pouring one out for the homie*...it is pretty zippy and provides an experience that's very close to real-time, meaning better quality interaction between host and viewers!

Fourthly, the StreamShare. Natively in Twitch, you can host other channels when you're offline and they're online. Switchboard extracts that and enables you to do this across all platforms with your friends, so there are no more boundaries preventing the promotion of your content within your network - SUPER AMAZING!

I didn't run into any issues when setting things up. I received an email soon after registration for my StreamShare page. That takes under 72 hours (according to them) to set up, so still waiting on that. The HTML player, as is mentioned in the sticky post by Switchboard, is not live yet, it's still in Alpha, so I can't report on the quality of that either, but I'm sure it'll be great when it launches and something I'm definitely looking forward to!

I 5 stacked this. I think the price to buy-in is a fair price, especially if you don't need the "extras" like StreamShare and Embedded player and will really help those venture into the multi-channel streaming space.

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