We are experimenting with a new feature that allows new viewers in a channel to introduce themselves via a simple prompt. Messages sent through this feature will be highlighted to the rest of Chat with an invitation to welcome the user via chat reply or @mention. This feature is in a limited release, and we will monitor feedback before deciding whether to make it more widely available.

Channels are enrolled in the experiment automatically and randomly, and creators can toggle the feature on and off in their Moderation settings under Chat Options: https://dashboard.twitch.tv/settings/moderation

We'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on this feature. Thanks for sharing your feedback!

We’re testing more ways to make it easier for creators to recognize new and returning viewers in chat with additional chat highlights for Mentions, Mods, and Subs. You can toggle individual highlights on or off to focus on a specific type of viewer you want to recognize, like highlighting important messages from your mods or showing love to your subs.

These highlights will not be visible to viewers in chat.

Note: This feature is a limited experiment and we will monitor feedback before deciding to make these highlights more widely available. You may see additional highlight options as we experiment with this feature. We'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions here. We look forward to hearing your feedback!

Twitch betting.
With polls already existing a betting system could be brought in. A rough idea on how it could work -
A and B streamers are in the same team of a call of duty match and they start a poll (bet) on who will finish the match with more kills and viewers can bet on their choice of player ( A or B ). For eg. a 100 people bet 1$ each (preset odds are 1 for both) on this poll where 60 chose A and 40 chose B. B ends up winning the bet hence the voters who chose b will double their money while the people who voted for A will loose their 1$. The remaining 20$ would be twitch’s profit. In the same scenario if A won the bet, B would be liable to pay 20$. A bet limit amount could be set by the streamer

Guten Tag, ich bin mittlerweile wirklich genervt von diesen Only-Emote-Spams im Chat, weil man den Chat einfach nicht mehr lesen kann. Deshalb wünsche ich mir unten in den Chat-Einstellungen eine Option, womit ich Postings mit nur Emotes ausblenden lassen kann und nur Texte und Texte mit Emotes angezeigt bleiben. Wichtig dabei wäre auch eine Prüfung, die Texte mit weniger Text als Emotes ausblendet. Da es wieder Trolls geben wird, die versuchen werden die Only Emote Funktion auszubooten und ein A vor die Emotes setzten, um andere zu belästigen.

Hello, I'm really getting annoyed by this only emote spam in the chat, because you just can't read the chat anymore. That's why I would like an option at the bottom of the chat settings where I can hide posts with only emotes and only text and text with emotes remain displayed. It would also be important to have a check that hides texts with less text than emotes. Because there will be trolls again who will try to boot the only emote function and put an A in front of the emotes to harass others.

Many Twitch channels are essentially podcasts, auditory ASMR, and otherwise are just fun to listen to. Sometimes people will also have multiple streams open in the event of a collaboration and be regularly switching back and forth.

It doesn't make sense to only make a view count on the active tab when people are bound to multitask. I'm sure it is because of advertisers, but ads have audio cues as well. Not to mention, a lot of times the people who will inevitably be multitasking (because who can sit still for a 6+ hour stream) are subs who have shown their support for the channel.

It feels disingenuous, and the viewer count takes so long to update that I find that for both my channel and channels I mod in, the number of people actively chatting and engaging with the streamer (so i know the stream isn't muted either) will often be higher than what the viewer count displays.

To me, it makes more sense to have the viewer count align more closely with how many people are in chat, but then things like 'active tabs' should be analytics available to twitch and the streamer on the back end if they so choose.

Not to mention, many potential stream participants might be turned off from a stream if the view number seems too low or the community seems too small when in reality people are probably tabbing in and out to participate.