You should provide more quality options for the smaller Twitch channels as well as non-partnered channels. Right now, you can only have more quality options if you are a streamer with a high amount of viewers or a Twitch Partner. This means that the quality is stuck on "Source" and cannot be altered whatsoever. This needs to be changed. I am on a Chromebook and I can't watch a whole 1080p60/30 or 720p60/30 quality stream without the stream constantly buffering every few seconds. When it stops buffering, it 'plays' the stream for about a few more seconds before it starts to buffer again, and ruins my experience and my ability to watch the stream. My Chromebook is only capable of Twitch streaming qualities up to 480p quality, and anything above that makes the video player suffer as a result. I've been trying to enjoy these streams to no avail and end up leaving because it is practically unwatchable with the constant amount of buffering. Please remove the 'exclusivity' and allow all Twitch streamers to have quality options. This constant buffering is getting on my nerves.

It's been a few weeks since Twitch changed how stream quality auto changes based on whether the tab is in the current tab/window or not. This change automatically lowers the quality of streams to 480p (or lower) for streams not in the current tab, and when the stream is tabbed back into focus it does not always resume the originally selected quality.

This is affecting multiple browsers, with or without extensions, so this is seems very much a Twitch end feature to lower data use.
This change however has resulted in some issues:
-More buffering
-Streams hanging/pausing when tabbed out
-Quality not restoring when tabbed back
-Playback issues such as audio desync when the stream quality changes and latency has to catch up
-Streams in background no longer has thumbnail view in task view (windows key + tab) to simultaneously view multiple streams and is instead just a black screen video player.

Overall I feel like the changes have not improved the user experience and has instead introduced more issues than it saves. It should be up to the user to open as many streams as they wish at whichever quality and maintain such experience regardless of window focus.

I use auto host when i am not streaming, however when i got live the host remains... which is fine. however last night (at this point) when the person i was hosting ended for the night it ended my stream as well... which caused a loss of stream to be seen by 5.5 hours. that is insane! Granted i hadn't noticed until i had gone back. how do you expect newer streamers to be aware of this "broken hosting system". Please either put in your KB's that Twitch can't handle the demand of that and for it to not kill ones stream that they MUST /UNHOST when they start if actively hosting. Maybe this is a "new" issue since the amount of streamers has increased hugely since the pandemic started?

As we all know by know the recent bunnyhop incident showed, that the way this feature is offered today might actually lead to ways of URL grabbing and harvesting.

The way it is designed today makes it easy to replace it and harvest many streams as content.

"<!-- Add a placeholder for the Twitch embed -->
<div id="twitch-embed"></div>

<!-- Load the Twitch embed script -->
<script src="https://player.twitch.tv/js/embed/v1.js"></script>

<!-- Create a Twitch.Player object. This will render within the placeholder div -->
<script type="text/javascript">
new Twitch.Player("twitch-embed", {

channel: "itmkoeln" 

});
</script>"

Even if that gets moved in the dashboard instead of the share stream mechanic it just takes to change the name (which is open for harvest). Without any tokens it is literally irrelevant where this is placed.

I am concerned because the streams I mod for were among those featured by those malicious people...

What I would suggest in the Dashboard visible to streamer and editors a list and a block this source option. I can see that third parties might be in need to be able to embed streams but this either should require a API confirmation token in the link in my opinion and the option to revoke this embedded feature...

And yes I am aware that Streamlabs does this for their Paying customers as are thirdparty multistream sites...

My genuine fear is that we got rid of this mischievous content thief site but the likes of these are not going away if twitch doesn't harden the embedded feature against abuse...