To help reduce the blatant and increasing violations of the harassment policy on Twitch, you should implement a new feature that allows a channel to prevent users from participating in their chat if the account is under a certain age, which could be specified specified by the channel.

Currently, it's easy for a user to create temporary email and Twitch accounts and harass a live streaming account under the guise of anonymity. This would add a much needed barrier to entry without requiring a user to follow or subscribe to be apart of a channel. The code currently exists for this feature regarding followers, and this feels like a natural next step for Twitch to help protect their creators.

Against Streamsniper !!

A lot of streamer got the problem that streamsniper are going to crash some streams. The get angry very fast and the viewer donthave fun in the sream.
You can ban the streamsniper from chat but i want ban them from my channel.
Better will be an option wich i can choose the ban. Right klick on the Viewer and the Ban. But there shuold be an dropdown menu wich i can choose ban from chat or ban from channel !!
I dont want streamsniper looking my channel. And i need an option wich i can choose that only registerd User can see my stream!
I think this will help against streamsniper !

1. Keep the sub badge so it represents the current consecutive streak. That way there is still incentive for those who can keep the sub streak going.
2. On Hover and in the resub notification, display the consecutive number of months and then the total number of months.So the streamer can see that they have been supporting, but may have had a lapse.
3. When in a current lapse of your sub, your last sub streak should still display but displayed in some way (such as being partially transparent) that indicates the sub is not currently active. This would show the that the user is not new and has been a supporter, but may not be able to support right now. This would do two things: remind the user to resub and also give people in chat insight that maybe that person could use the help of a gift sub to keep their sub streak going (Twitch: more $)
idea borrowed from here: https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/297558-general/suggestions/18659041-add-a-translucent-version-of-a-subscription-icon-f

As someone who is in the middle of a forced lapse (have to find a job), it is an extremely crappy feeling to lose your substreak and to have that fresh sub notification display when you're able to resub to the channel. Throw those of us who fall on hard times a bone and at least display it in places where people who are looking for the total number can see it.

Those who can continue to keep a sub going will still have the prominent sub badge to show proudly, and will always have more time total than someone who has had to have a lapse or chose to have a lapse.

I was thinking about how streamers come across offline, when not hosting or streaming. I've seen a lot of people's channels being marketed so when I check them out I have to start watching a whole stream to see if I like them or not, or wait til they stream and watch it live.

Maybe streamers who choose to have a channel trailer can compose a video with clips from previous streams, kind of like a highlight reel, and they can include an intro if they want to market themselves to prospective viewers, whether it's someone who followed an external link or random person discovering new streamers.

TLDR give us the option to upload a highlight reel to our channel for better offline marketing and to act as a preview for prospective viewers.

My Idea would fit more for Partners then for Affiliates, I think.

It would be awesome to have 1 Emote Slot free for Followers, so People can Follow my Channel and get this one special Emote as thank you.

This would directly create a sympathy between Streamer and Follower, and Followers eventually want more Emotes from the channel when they already like the follower Emote, this would raise the support insanely, I think.

Also People can share your emote with other viewers/streamers and just have a good time with some free emotes from their Favorites channels/streamers.

I personally enjoy it the most when people use my Emotes and they like it.

Thanks! :)

The IRL section should be for people who are actually doing something useful. Far too many people just sit there doing nothing, but hey they have ASMR in their title! Can we please clean this up? There are people on IRL who put in actual effort to provide useful and entertaining content, and they're buried underneath a sea of lazy, attention seeking bores. To be honest, the IRL section, because of what's allowed, cheapens the site. There should be a standard, a level of activity or usefulness required to stream in this section. Make ASMR a different section at least, so the actual streamers can get the attention they deserve. No, I'm not a streamer, I'm just sick of having to sort through the trash to find those who are putting in effort.

After a recent update to version 5.8 on January 17, 2018 a feature on iOS mobile was removed to be able to "pinch to zoom" in on areas of the stream. Being on mobile with an already smaller screen, when I'm watching Magic: The Gathering streams, it's really important for me to be able to zoom in on the various cards to read details of the print. With this new update, the streams are locked into the "full screen" view and it makes it much more difficult to view.

Is there a possibility to reintroduce the "pinch to zoom" functionality in a future update? There is currently a reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/7rf8l6/was_ability_to_zoom_pinch_removed_in_the_latest/

where another user is concerned about the same update