[MERGED] Bring back colored /me chat messages + Update the /me command to color chat messages FOR MODS/BROADCASTER ROLES ONLY
Or at least give streamers the authority to enable or disable it. But the ENTIRE point was how it stood out with color. Plain black with italics just renders it useless.
Hey all,
Thank you for the patience with us on this. This has been one of the most popular ideas on UserVoice and we definitely heard your feedback.
Today we launched /announcement for mods and streamers. Announcements can be used in chat to highlight a message and are available in 4 different colors along with the channel accent color. Because this is only part of the ask of this idea we are setting this idea to partial release so the community can continue to leave feedback on this.
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cinderful commented
Instead of making /me worse, make the donation messages/API/whatever better and impossible to fake!
Your old friend, Drew
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Muroko commented
/me agrees, we need it back.
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ParabellumGames commented
This is a terrible idea, its an even worse implementation. Italics are not legible and while I understand the intention the deviation from coloured text makes name colours worthless too, further degrading the perks from Turbo.
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TormentDubz commented
If you really want to get rid of spam how about you take care of all the bot accounts that drop the N word in partnered chats
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Sausey__ commented
People use /me with bots so people can see useful things in chat and it stands out
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Kira_Murasaki commented
It's hideous, and all the bot timers and commands now just blend in with regular chat bc the italics really don't make much of a difference at a glance.
Please revert back to the original /me colored text format. Thank you.
There's infinitely more important things that could be attended to over something like this. That now has taken MORE away from Twitch chat enjoyability.
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Hugo_Fuchs commented
Just make it an option. Those who want it plain black italics, can have it. Those who don't can have what they want. GGs for both people.
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theroundcube commented
This was never an issue. I have seen this abused in the sense of trying to trick people maybe a handful of times in my 7 or 8 years on twitch. There is no big problem with this as twitch makes it seem, and it's very well known that fake "donations" are just fake by now.
What this new move does do is make it a lot harder for some moderation and bot visibility purposes, as well removing a fun aspect of the site.
Has anyone ever seen multi colored raids, or /me Brain Power lyrics? All this update serves to do is make the site a poorer experience.
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Surion90 commented
Congrats Twitch on promoting the meme that Mods and Streamers do not know how to read. Also congrats on insulting your own developers by telling them that their tools suck. Because removing the /me color feature does just that. You're saying that streamers do not know how to read and use basic reasoning to determine what's a troll and legit message. You're saying that moderators lack the ability to use their judgement which the streamer trusts them with. You also are stating that your developers did a horrible job on the dashboard and other features already in place that help fight this trolling issue. Your solution does not fight the trolling issue at all. You replaced colors with italics FOR EVERYONE including bots. So now, if streamelements shows a donation guess what? ITS IN ITALICS which people can still use via /me so you didn't fix the problem you just ended up insulting the people that make you money. GG
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Myramong commented
I frequent a lot of Japanese streams and it's very, very common for them to have bots in chat that auto translate English -> Japanese and vice versa. Those bots always use /me for the colored text, which makes it a lot easier to mentally filter out the bot messages. The italics look AWFUL in these channels, every 2nd message is italic and the bot messages just don't stand out as much.
Please bring back a way for bots to have colored messages, perhaps by allowing streamers to set a color for certain users in their chat?
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Soresire commented
As a mod I use the full colored /me messages to draw attention to important announcements. I don't think I've seen it misused at all (or if I did it was so long ago and so infrequent that I just can't remember any misuse.
Italics doesn't stand out enough and now I'm suppose to waste my channel points for the highlight message redemption every time I need to announce something to chat? Come on Twitch. I have never heard anyone complain about the colors.
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Faked9 commented
Really cool feature where if you type /me before your message it changes your text colours message into the one you select for your name
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ryanleafmusic commented
This new change spits in the face of mods who depend on their messages differing from chat messages, streamers who have features or songs dependent on chat colour interaction... all sorts.
I am quite frankly appalled to moderate some Twitch streams when they make the job so much harder with this.
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MrFinn741 commented
I have seen the the /me misused once or twice under the multiple years I have been hanging out on twitch. I have seen it used for important messages and beautiful raid calls every time I have watched a stream. If it really is this big of a problem let the people who want to turn it off, but let it be on as default. When you make this kind of changes, do them right so you don't have to do them twice.
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aeternumfps commented
bring it back, italics is so bad
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EL_GrimWulf commented
don't take away the nice colours
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HeatherMoontail commented
The /me command in its original form, was never used in a malicious manner,, except for the edge cases where gullible streamers thought they'd been donated a massive amount of money, even though they'd realize it soon after and never fall for it again.
The colored text was used mainly for commands, important messages in chat that needed to be acknowledged, making raids more colorful, and being simply another way to have fun in chat.
This italicized text, not only is terrible for making messages stand out like it's supposed to, but it doesn't work with some custom texts like mine. It looks horrible. Furthermore, I assume that Twitch probably didn't take into account that dyslexic folks are going to have an even tougher time reading /me commands now, because italics are really hard to read for them!
Please just give us back the colored text. It literally was not hurting anyone, and Twitch made a massive deal out of nothing, and it's not fair to the people who were using it in good faith.
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tommouse90 commented
How about actually punishing bots, trolls, abusers, etc. instead of making things worse for everyone? I feel this has been a problem more than once, and frankly, I'm sick of it! Forget your moneybags and FIX IT!
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NoSoyLuis173 commented
italics seems like the wrong choice. many streamers use the color feature so their bots or mods can stand out in chat. the usefulness outweights a silly donation prank. also it may be harder to read in many cases
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AndrewGVN commented
The colored text was useful for stream chat management, now everything looks out of whack. Make it optional for it to show color or not, stop stripping things that are useful.....