The title says it all. It would be useful to have the option to choose who exactly can watch past broadcasts, as well as highlights and uploads. I believe some affiliates and partners offer special videos that are made specificaly for their subscribers. Unfortunately, this can only be done by restricting the access to the entire VOD librairy.

Example: I don't want my highlights or my past broadcasts to be restricted just for the purpose of allowing my subs to get exclusive content from the uploading option. But if I would like to make that restriction I would like to be able to choose who exactly can watch those VODs.

Past Broadcasts ---> Everyone
Highlights ---> Followers Only
Uploads ---> Subscribers Only
Clips ---> Everyone

Right now, no one can watch anything that is not live on my channel, unless they are subs. In my opinion, past broadcast is a very useful way to get known or to give a good idea of who you are to those who can't watch your content when you're live. And there are plenty other reasons why someone would like to have these options available to them.

We all understand affiliates are not partners, however, I believe this is simple enough to be implemented and would feel extremely rewarding to the loyal subscribers of affiliate channels to have different colors for 3, 6, year and so on marks. Currently, every single sub is stuck with the purple badge which is quite nice, especially over the old black one but it would mean a ton and provide a means of standing out for the most loyal viewers.

As for implementation, twitch could use the bit badge colors for reference. Purple is already existing as 1-3 months. Teal/Green could be 3 months, Blue 6 months and Red at 1 year. Better yet, the stars could get fancier with time but even simple color changes would be good enough.

Thanks for the time and let's reward the loyal supporters out there!

I think twitch drops are a great idea. Reward people for watching streams, sure. Currently, though, they result in a directory being flooded with channels that exist only to farm drops.

Normally a flood of uninteresting/low-effort channels would not be a problem, since nobody would watch them and they'd sink to the bottom of the directory. Drops encourage people to watch them, though, as long as the channels promise to stay online as long as possible.

Take a look at the Elder Scrolls Legends directory, where people get free cards for watching - https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/The%20Elder%20Scrolls:%20Legends

There is nothing about this game that makes broadcasters more excited to vodcast it, or viewers more excited to watch those vodcasts when compared to other games. It is just hundreds or thousands of people idling and farming, choosing vodcasts over normal streams because they know the vodcast will keep going while they're asleep or at work. This makes it substantially more aggravating to look through the directory for something you'd actually like to watch.

Possible solutions:

-- Disable drops on vodcasts. I'm sure there are SOME people who are genuinely interested in those vodcasts, so this feels bad for them.

-- Stop listing vodcasts mixed in with regular streams. Put them at the bottom of the directory or in another tab, just separate them somehow. Personally I wanted this even before drops were implemented, because I just don't have any interest in watching vodcasts. Drops have really exacerbated the issue though.

Hey there! I wanted to share a really great idea that I came up with and did not see on the uservoice section of Twitch:

Twitch Achievements!

With this feature, your unique Twitch account would have the ability to earn specific achievements directly through Twitch.tv for completing tasks they already do on a daily basis. Certain categories and examples for achievements include:

1) Streaming
"And so it begins...": Complete your first live broadcast (vodcasts excluded)
"I'm a pro!": Complete your 100th live broadcast (vodcasts excluded)
"I'm a legend!": Complete your 1000th live broadcast (vodcasts excluded)
"I have no life": Complete your 10000th total hour of live broadcasts (vodcasts excluded)
"Millenium streamer": Complete your 1000th total hour of live broadcasts (vodcasts excluded)
"Around the clock": Complete a 24hr live broadcast
"From dusk till' dawn": Complete a 12hr live broadcast
"Typical work day": Complete an 8hr live broadcast
"Life is like a box of chocolates": Complete a minimum of 1 live broadcast in 10 different game directories
"Mix-up": In one day, complete a live broadcast in a minimum of 2 different game directories
"I feel so loved!": Receive your first host during a live broadcast (auto host excluded)
"That's a lot of love!": Receive your 100th total host during a live broadcast (auto host excluded)
"Too much love!"; Receive your 1000th total host during a live broadcast (auto host excluded)
"Around the world": Complete a live broadcast on a minimum of 2 different twitch servers
"Green thumb": Complete your first live broadcast in the "creative" directory
"My life": Complete your first live broadcast in the "IRL" directory
"One of us": Join a stream team
"Transaction successful": Successfully have an in-game purchase of the streamed game occur during a live broadcast

2) Viewing
"I'm new here": Watch your first hour of live broadcasts
"You're my favorite": Watch an individual's live broadcast for a cumulative total of 100hrs
"It's my day off": Watch an individual's live broadcast for a minimum of 4hrs
Twitch is life": Watch a total of 1000hrs of live broadcasts within 1 year
"Variety soup": Watch a minimum of 1 hour in 10 different game directories
"I'm wanted!": Join a community
"Cruisin'": Watch a minimum of 10 different live broadcasts for a minimum of 5 minutes each within 24hrs
3) Video Uploads
"Single": Upload your first video
""Upload King": Upload your 100th video
"This isn't YouTube!": Upload your 500th video
"That was fast": Upload a video with a runtime of less than 2 minutes
"Is it over yet?": Upload a video that is longer than 1hr
4) Hosting
"Here's some support!": Host your first live broadcast
"Support level 2": Host your 100th live broadcast
"Future Twitch Admin": Host your 1000th live broadcast
"When I'm not there": Add your first auto host to your auto host list
"Community love": Complete your first auto host to a member of a stream team you are currently enrolled in
"I need my chat!": Perform your first unhost command
5) Chatting
"This is my first time": Complete your first chat message
"Getting better at it": Complete your 1000th chat message
"I've said it all": Complete your 1000th chat message
"I'll shutup now": Complete your 100,000th chat message
"I cannot be silenced!": Complete your 1 millionth chat message
"Sssshhhh...": Watch a minimum of 2hrs of an individual live broadcast without completing any chat messages
6) Bits
"Oh, what's this?": Watch your first ad for bits
"I've seen it all": Watch your 100th ad for bits
"I've really seen it all!": Watch your 1000th ad for bits
"A penny a day": donate your first bit during a live broadcast
"Every dollar counts": Complete your first 100 bit donation (100 bits in one donation to activate)
Millennial donator": Complete your first 1000 bit donation (1000 bits in one donation to activate)
"That's a lot of bits!": Complete your first 10000 bit donation (10000 bits or more in one donation to activate)
"I'm the greatest!": Donate a cumulative total of 10000 bits or more during live broadcasts
"I'm seriously the greatest!": Donate a cumulative total of 100000 bits or more during live broadcasts
7) Moderation
"Sword activated": Become and remain a moderator in 1 channel for a minimum of 1 month
"Trust your instincts": Become and remain a moderator of 5 channels for a minimum of 1 month
"That's a long time!": Become and remain a moderator of 5 channels for a minimum of 1yr
"hold your tongue": Complete a cumulative total of 100 timeouts
"I'm all yours": Complete a minimum of 100 total timeouts in an individual channel which you are a moderator in
"Picasso": Become an editor in an individual channel

In addition to the achievements listed above, there is limitless opportunities for new achievements to become available with constant new additions to Twitch! The sky is the limit! Also, it could be possible to create some kind of rewards system for achievements that are earned and could contain some form of value. With this achievement system in place, both streamers and viewers will benefit and ultimately increase network traffic, broadcast time, viewership, and in the end drive revenue for Twitch.tv!

Sincerely,

thejakeparker

twitch.tv/thejakeparker

Partner with UK mobile networks to offer free data without using your allowances viewing/using Twitch mobile apps.

Some of the UK mobile networks already offer this service with certain applications.

Voxi (a Vodafone sub brand) unlimited data for Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Viber, Pinterest and Facebook Messenger as standard. Any company can apply to get their app on their service ( https://www.voxi.co.uk/partners )

Three offer Go Binge which allows free data for Netflix, TVPlayer, Deezer and SoundCloud.

EE offer Apple music and the data to go with it free.

You would need to reach out to the other mobile networks but don't think it would be an issue for Twitch.

This would increase viewership via mobiles/tablets in the UK, you maybe able to replicate this around the world depending on the local mobile networks.

Guys... Red swords is the best idea ever!
I came up with the greatest idea ever tho.. if twitch gave every people that have been banned on multiple channels a red sword so people could see them just like the green one... it would be useful and it would be an awesome RPG theme :) I know I find my self a lot in an situation where I'm like "is this guy a friend of the channel and I just forgot and by that gives him the right to make a small little on the edge joke... or is he just a straight up cunt that needs ban" the red sword would make it pretty clear who is trolling and who likes them edgy jokes.. And then if they behaved for like a month or so.. the red sword would go away??

It would be awesome if Twitch allowed artists who design emotes for partnered streamers use them for free!

A suggestion is for Twitch to create the option for partnered streamers to specify which artist(s) created their emotes when they upload them which would then allow the artist to use those emotes on Twitch.

Benefits to this is that it would provide more exposure to both the streamer and the artist. The artist would get more promotion through sharing their created emotes on Twitch. Fans of the artist who enjoy their art style would be able to see which emotes the artist has created and which stream they're from. As a result, this would bring more exposure to the streamer, leading to more subs!

I feel that Twitch artists, though they contribute so much to the streamer communities, often receive little recognition for their hard work since they work behind-the-scenes. It'd be nice if Twitch implemented this feature to show their support for their artists!

How it currently works is that the broadcaster outputs their audio with the single channel for the viewer to listen to, but as an opt-in feature the broascaster could output two or more audio channels, an example being one for microphone, one for game sounds, and maybe even one for music if the broadcaster plays music.

To enable said tweeking it would be located under the advanced features to enable 'Split-Audio Channels', and therefore would allow the user to - rather than mute - click the speaker icon to allow the list of audio channels that the broadcaster is using.

This would the following:

User A likes to listen to the broadcaster and the game sounds, so they enable channel 1 and 2, but disable music.

User B decides that they don't fancy listening to the broadcaster for whatever reason and can mute their audio and just listen to game sounds & music, or either or.

This allows for fine tuning listening for those who want to be able to do so.

Would have to be opt-in from broadcaster side too via the settings and would have to also be set-up in the software.