How to Use Scuffed.Live

1. Adding Streams

• Select platform (Kick or Twitch) in the top bar
• Type a streamer name (e.g. xqc or kaicenat)
• Hit Add or press Enter

2. Managing Windows

• Drag any stream window by its title bar
• Resize by dragging the bottom-right corner
• Click the chat icon (the speech bubble) to add that stream's chat to the chat column; it turns green while it's there, and clicking it while that chat is showing takes it out again
• Click X to close a stream

3. Grid Mode

Streams open in a grid, laid out as large as the space allows. While the grid is on, the switch at the right of the menu bar picks how, one icon each: Even (every stream the same size), Rows (one stream big, the rest in rows underneath) or Columns (one stream big, the rest in columns beside it). Hover an icon for its name; click the one in use again to move the big stream to the other side (in Even, the short row), and drag a stream onto the big one to make it the big one. Click Free in the top bar to drag and resize windows wherever you like instead, and Grid to go back; the site remembers which you chose. In the grid, drag a stream by its title bar onto another to swap their places; the order is kept.

4. History & Offline Tracking

The sidebar shows all streamers you've added with live status. Click any name to instantly add them again. The offline counter helps you track your favorite creators. Collapse the whole list with the tab on its edge when you want more room for the streams.

5. Go-Live Alerts

When a channel in your list goes live, its name waves in the list, and with the list folded away the top bar says who just went live. To hear about it while you are in another tab or another app, turn on browser notifications:

• Click Alerts off at the bottom of the channel list, under Offline, next to Export and Import; your browser asks once whether Scuffed.Live may show notifications — choose Allow
• The button reads Alerts on. From then on, a channel in your list going live shows a notification with its name, platform and stream title, as long as Scuffed.Live is open in a tab somewhere — click it to come back
• Nothing is shown while you are looking at the page, where the list already tells you, and several open tabs show one notification, not one each
• Click Alerts on to turn them off again. If you chose Block when the browser asked, turn notifications back on for this site in your browser’s site settings
• Alerts work in desktop browsers; phones are not supported yet

6. Export & Import Your Channel List

Your channel list is kept in this browser only — there is no account behind it. Export and Import are how you back it up or take it somewhere else. Both buttons sit at the bottom of the channel list, under Offline, beside Alerts; if the list is folded away, open it with the tab on its edge.

• Export List downloads your channels as a small file, named like scuffed-history-2026-09-24.json
• Import List loads a file you exported and adds its channels to the list you already have
• Importing never removes anything, and a channel you already have is not added twice
• Imported channels get their live status checked straight away

Use it to move your list to another browser, computer or phone, to share a set of channels with a friend, or to keep a copy before clearing your browsing data — which would otherwise erase the list. The file holds your channels, not the stream windows you have open or where they sit; to share what you are watching right now, use the Share button in the top bar.

7. Chat

Click the chat icon on a stream to put its chat in the column on the right, Kick and Twitch side by side, to read while you watch; only the streams you pick get one, however many you have open. The streams move over to make room for it; the tab on its edge folds it away and brings it back, the same way the channel list folds on the left.

• Tabs shows one chat at a time with a tab for each stream; Stack shows two at once, one above the other. With more than two streams, tap the tabs in Stack to pick which two
• Monitor opens every chat in the tab side by side in a window of its own, one column per stream, so you can put it on another screen as a dedicated chat viewer. Drag between columns to resize them; it keeps the sizes. It follows the tab you opened it from, and the chat column folds away to give the streams the room
• Drag its left edge to make it wider or narrower; it keeps the width you leave it at
• Folding it away keeps the chats going, so when you open it again you see what was said in the meantime
• Click a stream's chat icon again while its chat is showing to take it out; closing a stream takes its chat with it
• Emotes, name colours and badges show as they do on Kick and Twitch, and messages moderators remove disappear here too
• Type in Kick chat or Type in Twitch chat, under each chat, opens that site's own chat in a window laid exactly over the chat column, with its message box at the bottom. You're signed in there as usual, so there's nothing to log in to here. Press Enter to send and Ctrl+W (⌘W on a Mac) to close it

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