Vodcasting is great for sharing videos and past broadcasts when a live stream isn't viable - but I'd also like to see the ability to schedule Vodcasts, and perhaps even attach them to the Events functionality.

For example, if I'll be traveling abroad for a few days, it'd be great to schedule events and unique queues of vods to go live at set times.

That way I don't have to worry about waking up at a certain hour to manually start a vodcast from my hotel room. I can set it, and focus on my trip.

The way I'd envision this is... I create a new event, tick off a box stating I want this to start a vodcast automatically, then add the videos I want in that particular vodcast queue.

Thanks!

Hi, I have a suggestion that will link together discord and twitch very well which I hope can be taken into consideration. There was a suggestion I read on the discord forums about allowing a user to see who people are watching on twitch

suggestion - https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-land/suggestions/33237955-twitch-activity3

The suggestion got 64 votes and it would be nice if it were to be implemented. However the problem is that an admin replied to a similar suggestion stating that twitch has not provided an API for this and so it could not be possible unless twitch provides an API for it. I think it would work well alongside the twitch app and will also add a new feature. I’m sure this will be beneficial for a lot of twitch and discord users and hope to see it implemented.

Thanks!

A payout progress page!

You can see your payout history on Twitch, and how much you've made on Twitch in certain months/weeks, but for me and some others, its still a bit confusing on when to know when you've reached your $100 payout.

So my idea was a progress bar, or any stat that shows you how far you are until your next payout, so you know how close you are, when you can expect a payout along with viewing your previous payouts.

Benefits:

• You know when you will get paid, which can be convenient for bills/other payments you have at the end of a month.
• You can make it a monthly goal, which could potentially make people more motivated once they know they're close to the payout or halfway there.

Downsides:

• People might beg for subs/bits because ''they are close to payout'' ?

It would be great to have this for both partners & affiliates.

When browsing categories and channels on Twitch the results are sorted by the current viewer count. While this is one way to sort things, it doesn’t facilitate connecting viewers with the content they are most likely to watch. When looking at other content platforms such as Youtube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc… none of them present viewers with content based solely on how many people are currently watching it but instead use algorithms to present them with recommendations based on the viewer’s previous behavior and the viewing behavior of other viewers. I believe Twitch should have all of the data necessary to sort categories and channels by relevancy to the current viewer where the current view count is one of many factors used.

The current Twitch “front page” has “Live channels” and “Categories” “recommended for you” so clearly there is already a recommendation/relevancy system in place. As a first step using this existing system to place all recommended channels and categories at the top of the list before reverting back to current viewer count sorting would be a big improvement.

With this change, it will then become incredibly important that the recommendations are relevant. To improve the recommendation algorithm, I recommend that the organic path to discovering new channels is heavily weighted. The most common way a channel is discovered in my experience is when the channel is raided or hosted by a channel the viewer already often watches. This pattern can be repeated recursively with each step removed having less weight on relevancy then the one before it. While the “people who watch X also watch Y” type weighting has merit, Twitch is someone unique because of its emphasis on communities. The actions taken between streamers therefore should have at least as much weight as simple common viewership.

In summary:
Sort Categories & Channels by Relevancy
Use the “front page” “Live channels” and “Categories” “recommended for you” at first
Fallback on concurrent viewer count when recommendations are exhausted
Improve the recommendation system to produce more relevant results