I found Roku channels that aren’t in the store, and they’re actually worth watching

A few weeks back, I went hunting for a Roku channel I remembered using years ago — some niche indie film vault I’d added by code on my old setup. It wasn’t in the Channel Store on any of my three TCL Roku TVs. And it wasn’t on the Roku website either. What happened was Roku quietly killed the whole non-certified channel system back in February 2022, and everything I’d collected got swept up with it. But the “Add channel with a code” page at my.roku.com is still alive, and after a few hours of Roku tinkering, I came away with a handful of channels worth keeping around — plus a separate stash of stuff hiding inside The Roku Channel itself.