Twitch has different 'boosting' features available to some streamers, such as channel point boost challenges or the new Boost Train. While great in theory for discoverability, completed boost recommendations right now seem to be sent to completely random users.

This means that recommendations are not always seeking the audience that the streamer is hoping to reach, or is content viewers aren't looking for. For example, when checking my own Front Page for these boosted recommendations, I've mostly been recommended channels streaming in languages I do not speak, or in categories I've never engaged in as a viewer or streamer.

This randomness also puts marginalised streamers at higher risk of harrassment as a result of financial support from their communities. For example, when my community completed a Level 4 Boost Train, the only new chatters in my stream were trolls targeting me for being a trans person. Hype Trains are designed to be a moment of joy, not a time where we have to worry more about being harrassed.

Instead, Twitch should send recommendations from boosts out based on user data that Twitch already has (e.g. how they filter 'live channels we think you'll like' and other recommendations). Curating recommendations based on these aspects or other user data available make them more appropriate and meaningful for viewers and streamers alike.

Please give us the ability to search for a certain category and be able to block it or turn it off recommendations so we do not see it. I went through setting after setting and could not find an easy way to disable it. I then said not interested manually and they keep popping back up. Like in the case of pools, hot tubs and beaches category in IRL, you are just preying on vulnerable needy men for a profit. Stop it. Or at list give us an easy quick and obvious option to block any category or tag we choose.

Currently, Word of Mouth is a big factor for channels being discovered by new viewers. You've found a great new channel that you think your friends will enjoy so you want to tell them about it. Currently, all you do is share the channel link with your friends and you've directly helped that channel grow... but there's no direct reward for helping that channel.

What if there was a 'referral' system available where you could share a link, with a particular referral code, with your friends and if they choose to follow the channel you receive a bonus amount of Channel Points?

There are a range of other potential incentives - if a Viewer shares a particular channel link and 'x' amount of other viewers spend 'x' amount of time in the channel then the referring Viewer might receive some Bits?

The purpose is simply to increase channel discovery for the channels we find valuable. They might not have the most amount of viewers but their content may be just what someone is looking for and unable to currently find it.

before twitch was the best site ever i could very easily find great new people to watch because my friends and the people i follow like what i like and I could see new people that they were watching and find lots of great new people to watch but now I can just get a list of people and i click on 100 of them and 100 of them suck its terrible now I don't have the time mental stability or patience to find new people before I would click on 5 people that people were watching and 5 would be great now its hopeless to find new people now I can only watch the people I already watch and everyone else now they can't have me as a fan and have me help support them because I am no longer able to find them if its important to not show who your watching you could show people that they watch then I could find people or show who they are watching and I can find people but how it is now its pointless no point in paying for twitch or anything related to twitch because now it sucks it used to be the best ever now its below average no longer a great site it sucks I love music and now I have to miss out on tons of it because I can no longer find it the only way I could is when streams raid but I cant always be in streams when they end so now I can find maybe 1 person every 3 weeks before I could find 10 a day that's a huge difference makes a great site not that good anymore or you could show who they follow then I could find people if there was just some way to find out who they like like there used to be doesn't matter how we see who they like it doesn't have to be who they are currently watching if you show more then that it would be better then it was before instead of much worse then it was before your still a great site allowing people to stream I just cant find new people now its very disappointing and it sucks

For a lot of viewers, like myself, twitch is a great way to get some human interaction while at home, and especially after this past year, it provides some much needed feeling of contact even without being face-to-face. I would like to request the ability to filter out VTubers or add a tag for non-VTubers or something similar, because there are so many of them, and for viewers like myself, we have no interest in watching an animated model speak, we want to watch real people.

VTubers have carved out their niche and that's wonderful, but if we can search for them specifically I'd like to be able to search for their opposite.