I would love to see a site wide discoverability feature that universally lets me or any user "hide streams that are all 18+ content. " With a very simple toggle button to hide those channels.

In addition to this, having all 18+ content not visible in any discovery page if a user is not logged in to the site.

to clarify: 18 plus content may or may not include political or sensitive topics, graphic video games, or catergories etc.

Being able to quickly toggle and categorize these channels either universally help create targeted ads for these channels, potentially turn ads off of these channels while this toggle is turned on, and hide them from search for people who may not need/want to see this content.

I have an idea for increasing Discoverability on the platform. Twitch already tracks what channels users already watch which then is used to recommend viewers to new "similar" channels that they might enjoy, but from my experience very few people actually take the initiative to go into their channel and watch. I think that for this approach to work you need to brute force people into trying out new streams by having a sort of "reward" system where you get rewarded in either bits or subs to the creator by watching for longer periods of time. This will make more people inclined to try out a new streamers channel and will forcefully expose them to their content for a period of time which is the most important part of being discovered. Once someone has watched someone's stream for lets say an hour, that is often enough to either hook the person in and make them a loyal stream viewer or to steer them away from the stream.
I am aware that this might be abused where people would set up some sort of bot or something that just accepts the "rewards" and just watches the streams for the allotted time and disappears, but if you make the rewards in such a way that they can't be abused (for example 1 quest per month) this should not be a problem.
I'm just throwing my idea to a solution out there. All discussions start with an Idea so this is more of a conversation starter for people to come with improved and more refined ideas.

We all use autohost, raiding and manual hosting sometimes. Its labor intensive & tireing though. One has to devote time to find a stream to drop viewers into. On top of inconvinience of that process... there is corruption going on in certain communities. People are retaining viewers by hosting their group of friends only, so these viewers are never exposed to anything new.

My idea is to automate the process of raiding, to disperse thousends of viewers watching huge streamer, by sending them to zero-viewer channels from same game cathegory.. or to the ones having simmilar cathegories history. By doing this, afk viewers have chance to explore, discover, get positively surprised plus get heard and network for the first time, because huge streamers dont read chat. When streamers like Lirik go offline, his audience is left off with silent device theyve been viewing the stream on. Why not, for the first time in streaming platforms history, providing smart solution for the discoverability problem. You cannot lump majority of streamers into featured streams section, and hope viewers will check that on their own. You cannot hope viewers will waste time painstakingly scrolling down the enormous list of streams in diffrent cathegories having heavy thumbnails to load, slow server response time loading small chunks of few thumbnails at a time, so the list loading process with up to 10 second loading delays beween these chunks takes in fact forever.. eventually making viewers give up on search. Almost nobody scrolls down the full list of streams currently avilable in a game cathegory, instead people hold dear to their small list of subbed streams and watch them only. Dont get me wrong, viewers would have a choice to opt out from the feature in their account settings, in case some of them would prefer dead silence instead of fluid entertainment delivery like that. Credit me, once you finnaly develop and impement this system ;)

P.S. The algorithm could be designet similarly to what youve done with AI emote based tagging of clips "Using chat emotes as signals for content themes" on Oct 5 2017 - By Ariel Sagalovsky... to establish what was the longest active or most exciting game cathegory of finnishing streamer that day, to better determin where to send people next.

I follow a lot of channels. I have interest in watching streamers from quite a few game titles. I would like to be able to go to my following tab and apply a filter to only see streamers that I am following that are streaming a game that I enter the name of. This would enable me to both keep my following list large and easily view the streamers that I enjoy that are streaming the game that I like - letting me easily watch small streamers that are playing the game that I like. As is, I need to scroll through my large list of followed channels that are live to pick out the ones playing the game that I like.

Hi, I have a suggestion that will link together discord and twitch very well which I hope can be taken into consideration. There was a suggestion I read on the discord forums about allowing a user to see who people are watching on twitch

suggestion - https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-land/suggestions/33237955-twitch-activity3

The suggestion got 64 votes and it would be nice if it were to be implemented. However the problem is that an admin replied to a similar suggestion stating that twitch has not provided an API for this and so it could not be possible unless twitch provides an API for it. I think it would work well alongside the twitch app and will also add a new feature. I’m sure this will be beneficial for a lot of twitch and discord users and hope to see it implemented.

Thanks!