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.

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

This new gift subscription notification text that specifically says the number of gifted subs the person has given in a channel was probably put in place to reward those gifters, but it's having the opposite effect from my anecdotal experience. There are several users who gift a LOT of subs across the community I'm in. I'm talking hundreds a month. Each of them has said they give less gift subs because of this new notification, which calls out how many they've done, makes them feel awkward, etc. I could definitely see some people who would like that feature, because maybe they like showing off, but most people giving gifts are rather humble. I don't know if anyone else has seen that in their channels and communities, as well. I'm hoping that Twitch can make that feature optional at a minimum.

It seems Twitch is rolling out a method where Notifications are disabled automatically for streams you may not view often. This could easily be missed by a viewer who wants to enjoy that stream but maybe timezones are an issue, or just real life gets in the way.

People can already manually turn off notifications if they choose, automating this seems to be something that will only hurt producers.

Some people may not receive an email at all, and find they have had their notifications forced off. This is a bad bad direction to go in.

Please only allow manual disabling of notifications.

As an affiliate who is succeeding in grabbing a wonderful community of viewers and subscribers, I would love for them to receive what they deserve for their patronage to both me and Twitch. I believe that Partners should 100% be allotted more emotes for their success, but the same could be said for us affiliates. I understand that can be difficult to do considering you (Twitch) wants to have more benefits for partners. However, I believe there is a middle ground that could be met and I have a few ideas that I will list to give us hard working affiliates, and our subscribers, more incentive.

1. There could be a more strict/ more difficult amount of sub points for an affiliate to receive an extra Tier 1 emote slot, such as :
One Emote: Base
Two Emotes: 25 sub points
Three Emotes: 50 sub points
Etc...
(So basically the Partner Emote Milestones, but a new one for us Affiliates)

2. Remove the option for higher tier subscription options to allow for more emote slots in lower tiers.

3. Viewership Milestones, once the affiliate has reached an average concurrent viewership over a 30 day spread of X amount of viewers they are given Y extra emotes.

These were just some ideas that I personally had, I believe option 1 to be VERY do-able. I and so many others hope to see progress in this area in the future!
Thank you,

TheLuffyTV

We have an official game channel on Twitch -- we have tons of streamers that play the game, but (of course) most are variety streamers.

We'd love to autohost some of these folks playing our game, but it'd be awkward if we autohost them and they randomly play :any game that's not our game:. After all, it's the official game Twitch channel!

This would be useful to any themed streamers or gamers that only play x or y game. There may be variety streamers that play MOBAS but a LoL Twitch channel would autohost their friends only when they're playing that particular game.

Game name is already in the meta data, seems like it'd be minimal effort to implement!

Lovingly lifted from the comments section of: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/7x9vrv/please_let_us_change_emotes_without_deleting_the/

Two things -

1. Deleting of emotes when want to change them is a pain. It means subscribers lose one of the (few) benefits that are given to them at the affiliate level. It's just that the approval process takes so long, that not being able to use anything while waiting for approval stinks.

2. I think it would be great if we could have a library of previously approved emotes, so we can swap them out for holidays, etc. If you want to keep it to 3 active emotes for affiliates, that's all fine and good - even limit how often we can swap the emote (a cooldown, so to speak). It's nice to have holiday options, etc.

I first saw izl/Brian as an Admin on September 24th, 2014. His shield badge and BTTV glow was so shiny that I had to take a screenshot. https://i.imgur.com/xJHr6oB.jpg

I was so new to Twitch back then. On day one he showed kindness by giving me great advice and 4 URL tools, I was so happy that I had a way to check hosts and count chatters.

When our community was nervous about rejection, he reassured us to try applying for partnership. Later on, the streamer got partnered.

Years later, he founded the Moderation team that enabled communication & collaboration. http://streamernews.tv/2016/06/07/brian-mcnulty-created-a-twitch-moderator-slack-team

He helped countless people help others & achieve their dreams. He was a soldier of Twitch who helped others with all his heart & soul. Honor him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjwVrEMjyxY

There will be a place to direct memorial contributions and messages. https://twitter.com/itskellykline/status/968388165059907585

Thank you for reading this. It means more than you'll ever know.

Add the ability for someone to show off how many total months they have been a subscriber rather than being forced to show off a sub streak and then let the user be able to announce either a streak or total months subbed since they first subbed to you. Sometimes people can't afford to keep a sub streak going. They get to 6 months, fall under hard financial times and then a few months later they want to sub again when times are better for them but want the streamer to still know that they have been a huge supporter of them in the past. I think this would be a great idea for Twitch and would make people want to re up their subs to people they have supported before without being turned off at the fact that they lost their 6 month, 12 month or even 24 month resub streaks.

You should add different tiers of the gift badge, like the bit badge. It currently shows the ammount of gifted subs already in the message in chat, but this should also be reflected in the gift badge.
Do a score system, lets call it gift score, like following: $4,99 sub gives 1 point, $9,99 gives 2 points and $24,99 gives even 5 points, like you did it for the streamer with the sub score.
Depending on the gift score give different badges. Maybe in steps like 3,5,10,25,50,100 etc...

Give the possibility to the streamer to upload their own gift badges, like it is with bit badges.

It would be a great change and show everyone in the chat how many the user supports the channel.
Just like the bit badges it also gives YOU twitch another great income, because it might give the users another way to compete and showing off how much they support a channel, like the top cheer feature already does.