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A user noted that StreamYard forces the use of built-in lower thirds for every camera angle and expressed a desire to be able to remove or customize them, indicating a lack of flexibility in the current feature.
This morning while recording a podcast on Riverside, the call dropped about ten times. Over the past week, across several podcasts, I have probably had recordings drop twenty five times or more. When you record as many podcasts as I do, that is simply unacceptable. Right now I record around 20 episodes a week, roughly 20 hours of interviews, across several different shows. When a recording platform fails, it does not just inconvenience me. It wastes my guest’s time and disrupts the entire production schedule for my team. Which got me thinking about something bigger. I believe we have entered a really bad era in the podcasting and content space. A lot of companies are rushing to add AI features, clip generators, editing tools, automated everything, but they are ignoring the most basic thing creators actually need. Stability. Riverside originally built a great product. It solved a real problem, remote recording with separate audio and video tracks. That was the core value. That was why people trusted it. But somewhere along the way, the focus shifted. Instead of making the recording experience rock solid, platforms started piling on AI features, editing tools, highlight generators, social clip tools, all trying to capture a bigger slice of the creator economy. The problem is most creators do not want to edit inside their recording platform anyway. We already have editing workflows. We have teams. We have software for that. What we actually need is simple. Press record. Capture clean audio and video. Do not crash. That is it. So after this week of recordings constantly dropping, I have decided to move away from Riverside and start talking with other platforms that focus on doing the basics extremely well. Because when you are recording twenty hours of conversations every week, reliability matters a lot more than fancy features. Sometimes the most powerful product strategy is not adding more. It is protecting the thing that made the product great in the first place.