[Feature] Discovery Feed
We recently announced the upcoming launch of the Twitch Discovery Feed: a scrollable feed in the Twitch app that shows users a personalized mix of Clips. Before that launch happens, we’ll be running experiments with limited versions of the Discovery Feed to help test and improve our algorithms and the overall experience. These early experiments do not reflect the final design or experience of the Discovery Feed. We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions on how to improve this experience as we build towards the bigger launch.
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MONK_DUCK commented
Please remove or make the rubbish feed optional, it's not once made me want to use the all and in fact generally makes me close it. That may seem extreme but it's been created extremely poorly.
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trilock01 commented
Please make the discovery feed optional!
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Rodj22 commented
Please make the feed tab optional. Sometimes I just check twitch for active streamers, and I don't want my music or background video to pause just because I opened twitch, it's really annoying
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thellama042 commented
This goes hand-in-hand with the Mobile App Redesign thread, frankly.
Please let your userbase know when you've seen the light and have reverted back to the app design last seen in Android version 19.6. This has been possibly the least popular decision Twitch has made in a while, and that's quite a list of things that users didn't like. 55 pages of "please, this is awful." just being ignored so we can forge ahead with a mass exodus to either a 3rd party Twitch app or to simply watch content elsewhere.
The Discovery feed is modeled after TikTok which encourages terrible live streams in an awful portrait format. Trash it along with the redisign.
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kafkonia commented
Please make the feed either optional, or at least not the default home page for the app. I am not always in a position where I want the audio of a 'recommended' stream to play from my phone without my knowledge.
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JanMoeho commented
I made the mistake of updating the Twitch app on my phone today. Your new Discovery Feed is horrendous! Absolutely the worst thing I have ever seen. And heard! Boy did I hear it! Loud blaring music/sound attacks you as soon as the app opens up. It is literally an assault on the senses.
Then there's shock #2 as you frantically try to find a way to make it stop, until you realize there is no way. Other than to turn the app off. And that's when you begin to contemplate deleting the app completely.
I want my old home screen back!
If you insist on continuing with this nonsense, at least make separate tabs for:(1) the full old home screen with the streamers we each follow on it (not that partial pop out on the left with the sound and video from the suggested streams or clips still playing and blaring behind it);
(2) Another tab for the suggested streams, and
(3) a third tab for the clips.
And allow us to choose in settings which tab we want to display when we open the app.Honestly, if I wasn't a Mod for a streamer, I'd just delete the app. I always mod his streams on my desktop because modding on the phone is a joke. But I use the phone app to get the alerts because sometimes he starts earlier than expected or throws in an unplanned stream.
Some of his fellow streamer friends have already gone over to Kick - that's sounding like a really good idea to me now.
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ErudinSerebryakov commented
Congratulations for delivering the most hated feature of this app! Did you even test this with real users before forcing it down everyone's throat? I Hope there will be a rollback soon.
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TheWearyCorvid commented
I think everyone else has covered why this update is obnoxious and awful, so I’m just here to agree with those comments: this update is genuinely terrible and is having the adverse effect towards inspiring me to follow new channels.
Since the update, I immediately do anything to navigate away from the discovery feed, even if it means closing Twitch and finding something else to occupy my time.
Please, for the love of all good things in this world: do not make this a permanent change.
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Varuuu commented
I don't like this new feature.
I understand this is for discovery but it is done at the detriment of the whole experience.
Loading the app opens an auto play stream which is jarring if you forget where your volume is at. Selecting a stream does open the usual stream window with chat. If you try navigating away to your followed channels then the steam goes into Picture in Picture mode. But to go to your followed channels, you have to go through the feed page to push the now annoyingly out of reach followed channels button. Going through the feed page pauses your Picture in Picture mode because there is a stream auto playing in the feed.
This makes it miserable to look at a stream on the feed page to check it out then go check your followed channels to see who is online. You end up playing a pause/unpause dance with the current stream you are watching.
By all means, keep feeds but please don't make it the default. YouTube has shorts but you need to click the tab for it. If you leave the app with shorts playing then you are taken back to shorts when you open the app. Why not do this instead? If someone wants to stick it out in feeds then let them hang out there when they come back.
Give me a landing page with no auto play (or muted auto play based on scroll position), some suggested streamers and more importantly, a simple and easy way to go to my followed channels please! It'd be nice if that was a button on the bottom nav var too!
I do think a recommended channels section with auto play based on scroll position would be way better than a feed. Add the features from feed to it like "don't recommend channel" and stuff to tailor it. Almost like the home page to YouTube on mobile. That's a way nicer experience than a feed.
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Rakiinterith commented
The UI as a concept doesn't function properly when you realize that nearly all twitch streams are in widescreen. Ignoring the fact that it autoplays and makes it take longer to get to the streams you follow, TikTok, which is this obviously copying, is mostly vertical videos. Twitch by pure fact that it's primarily for gaming has nearly all streams in 16:9 and so the actual stream is a tiny little space in the middle of larger and larger phone screens.
This is just making it harder to actually watch streams in the name of trend chasing. I don't care if the discovery feed is in the app, just make it so that the follow page is your landing once you open the app instead of an autoplaying feed that shows me streams I don't care about.
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tina_dinkfan commented
Discovery Feed was just added to my mobile app yesterday. I am confident in saying: It is awful. It does nothing but annoy the viewer. Autoplaying & forcing a viewer to join a random stream (even from streamers you follow) upon opening the app makes using Twitch a nightmare. It also is making navigating away from a stream incredibly difficult. The previous mobile UI was much more user friendly. This does nothing but frustrate the user & make it so we do not want to use the platform. Smart thing would be to revert to the previous UI.
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decrepit_monster commented
What are you doing? I'm going to cancel my many years of service. Auto play, no mute, I can't sort my followed channels from high to low. So now they are randomly placed. Making it much more difficult to find the streamers I watch often. Unless you're goal is to have me unfollow all the streamers I rarely watch? Again what makes you think people on mobile service want auto play and loud streams going as soon as they open the app? Your app isn't tiktok. I am sooo baffled how this even got approved for a limited run. Opt me out, or I'll just leave twitch.
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MisterTheZeem commented
This is the worst decision you have ever made, app is practically unusable. If these changes persist I will be canceling turbo, subscriptions, and be done using the twitch app in general. Embarrassing disregard for customers.
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dale_cd commented
Follow list should pop up first, at the very least. If we must have a stream pop up when the app opens, pick from our most watched at least. I follow top streamers (xqc, hasan) in case they collab with people I do watch. I do not want to cull my follow list to avoid being blasted with hasan giving a political rant or xqc watching tik tok when i open the app
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danman69_ commented
Absolutely dreadful UI. I did not volunteer to test your Discovery Feed, change it back as soon as possible. I understand you want to test potential updates, but please make this process voluntary rather than imposing new designs on users who are not willing to hinder their current experience.
The feed in itself might be fine for other users, but it absolutely should not be the default page when opening the app. I open the app first and foremost to see if any of the streamers I follow are online. I do not open the app to have a potentially noisy stream I have no interest in automatically play. It's a sensory nightmare.
Removing the ability to scroll through the channels I follow in favour of an unnavigable feed of random channels I have no interest in is an extremely poor design choice. If you must have this feed, put it elsewhere and do not force users to put up with an inferior experience.
Additionally, the fact you can't browse other channels and categories with the current stream minimised is an objectively worse design choice.
This test is an unwelcome aggravation for a user that was already happy with the app as is. Change it back immediately and do not force testing on random users. This is really poor from Twitch.
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afrojason commented
New update bad why fix what isn't broken?
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tofu_12 commented
As many have already posted, this is an horrible, horrible way to do this.
I don't want the first thing i see on opening the app to be a random stream.
I want to see if any of the streamers I follow are streaming, nothing else.Giving more streamers exposure may be a good thing for streamers, but forcing this features to app users by having feeds play on turning on the app? That is just bad UI.
Sadly, I don't care if I might like a random stream that shows up.
The moment I opened the app and saw this, It ****** me off and decided I'm never following/watching anything I find through thisIf this isn't reverted soon I guess I'm not subbing to any streamer anymore
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AkitaAttribute commented
This is bad. Remove this. Make Following the default.
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MiniAssassin17 commented
Change it back!
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MIKAeo commented
This update is horrendous. I cancelled my Turbo subscription over this ridiculous forced ****. There is absolutely now reason why my following tab shouldnt be its own tab. Don't force me to watch random **** while I'm browsing who I'm following. I already use the app exclusively to watch content, don't shove what you think I want to watch down my throat. Give me the option to not use this garbage.