The wheel is designed to feel readable and fair, with a slow-down profile that changes friction with speed so spectators can read names as the wheel crawls toward the stop, while a small steady drain ensures eventual stoppage rather than endless slowdown.

The project is being built as a solo effort, with a Fall 2026 launch window and a sign-up portal at raidport.tv for founding members.

A known issue with overlapping timers caused zombie loops during spins; the fix was to stop any old timer when starting a new spin, verified through extended testing.

RaidPort turns Twitch raids into a live gameshow by displaying raider names on a large wheel spun via chat, with the wheel simulation running on a Node.js/TypeScript server and the OBS overlay showing angles and speeds received through WebSocket.

Chat voters determine spin length by choosing fast or slow spins, and the system calibrates friction to match the requested duration after a dry run, ensuring the stop time aligns with the selected length.

Landing on a name is restricted to live channels; if the selected slice belongs to an offline channel, the wheel smoothly moves to the next live slice and ends on that channel.

During a spin, viewers can vote to add friction with !stop, with per-user and global weighting to balance influence and curb abuse, and a bug that misused slice count to gauge audience size was fixed to prevent excessive stopping power.

A ghost speed line visual demonstrates how much slowdown is due to chat activity, and it now follows the same slowdown rules as the actual wheel.