This "feature" has an especially negative impact on music streamers, where audio quality is so much more important and can make the difference on whether viewers choose to lurk or switch to a different platform.

I know it's supposed to be a bandwidth saving feature, it saves plenty of it as chat will just decide to close Twitch.

I have a monthly volume contract and need to permanently preset certain streams to a lower bitrate when viewing. Automatic change to highest possible resolution on opening a stream makes twitch costly and unusable for me.

Greetings from 5 years later.
I bet by now there are actually people who would even be willing to pay for usable interfaces 😅

Does Twitch just fired all their customer supports or PMs or something? or maybe they should do that anyway cuz ux is totally g4rb4ge af lol. 121 votes for this comment currently and nobody give it a fu0k nice job twitch u sh14

MAYBE ITS A BUG. REALLY ANNOYING.

AMEN

Whyyyyyyy did you post that? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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If you want to lock stream resolution, you can use this code

javascript: Object.defineProperty(document, "hidden", {
value: !1,
writable: !1
}), Object.defineProperty(document, "visibilityState", {
value: "visible",
writable: !1
}), Object.defineProperty(document, "webkitVisibilityState", {
value: "visible",
writable: !1
}), document.dispatchEvent(new Event("visibilitychange")), document.hasFocus = function() {
return !0
}, window.localStorage.setItem("video-quality", '{"default":"chunked"}')

Save it in a Bookmark in URL in the browser. With opened stream set quality to 1080 and press the bookmark. Done.

This is annyoing as ****, and as said before Firefox does not support / do this when changing tabs. The biggest gripe is that when you are listening to a stream the audio quality degrades also at the same time when the video lowers to 160-360p. Please find a solution to end this nonsense.

Someone I talked to about this said they use Vivaldi, which is also Chromium based, and they don't have that issue.

Edge is chromium. Most browsers are built on the same platform as chrome. Firefox, which is a totally different platform, I can confirm does not have this behavior. It does appear to be an issue with chromium.

It's not just a chrome issue my quality changes on its own in Edge

It's a Chrome thing; this issue comes back from time to time and showed up today, setting video to 480p then after 4-5 min it switches back to source and goes back to 480p when you give tab/window focus.

Tested on Firefox and doesn't have this behavior, keeps 480p all the time.

Another issue that popped up at the same time is the left panel; you click to show more followed channels and, when you scroll up to reach the top, if you happen cross the panel "thin scroll bar" with your mouse cursor it will go back all the way down, very annoying.

Dude, coding is hard.

I only have access to metered connection so I always watch video at 160p

So help me lord I can't held back from getting triggered when 160p suddenly became 1080p 5 minutes after I open another app

How is this still a thing in 2024, so frustrating. I have a multiscreen setup and if i don't have the twitch window active it goes to 360p. This alone frustrates me enough to go watch youtube videos instead.

Please sort this already, if i set a resolution that is what i want.

still happens, its hitting hardware resource performance.

2024 and this is still an issue...
I have a limited amount of internet data per month so I tend to keep streams set at a lower quality. Often, when I go to a different tab, the streams end up switching themselves back to full quality, which is counter intuitive

It's 2024 and Twitch still forces 360p whenever the tab goes out of focus for a second. As if the 2-minute ads aren't bad enough. Can't wait for another platform to take your place.

started maxing off tab/window qualities for me today, bandwidth rip

100% I have an older device, but still want to watch muiltiple streams. Only way to do that is lowering the resolution. Everytime they change the rez every 30 seconds to max just cause I switched tabs. It puts my whole device at risk of crashing and ALL the tabs start buffering simply cause 1 tab is changing back and forth. Even tho I have them all set to a specific resolution, not auto.