When streamers experience frame drops: Twitch currently buffers by adding chat delay for smoothness. While this does effectively buffer the video, it adds unnecessary confusion and frustration between the streamer and chat. If there is a several minute delay, chat is basically removed from the stream experience. Other platforms use stuttering to buffer, resuming stream live after the dropped frame. This makes it obvious that there is a drop, but chat is engaged: which is preferable for most streamers I've met experiencing this. I propose using a blend: allowing the stream to buffer for a short time, maybe 30 seconds, then starting to stutter. This way you don't sacrifice quality on most streams, but network issues will be more viable. There are large markets, like Los Angeles, that experience this a lot with spectrum/tmobile; who have very unreliable service.