I don't think there's a way to "improve" the Discovery Feed. The entire idea is flawed and does not provide any use to the viewers. No one wants some stupid algorithm to tell them some irrelevant channel to watch. I doubt anyone is even interested in finding new channels that way, there's many better possibilities with more control for users to filter what they wanna see.

I kindly ask you to at least let users set the list of followed channels as default home page instead. I uninstalled the app after the change and use the twitch mobile website instead because I dislike the feed that much. Since this way is rather annoying, too, I've reduced my use of Twitch in general. Good for me I guess, bad for you.

I just want a useable twitch app without stupid forced recommendations, is that too much to ask? ._.

Why is the new clip tool locked at maximum resolution?
Previously it could be reduced to whatever you were viewing the stream at.
This makes it impossible for viewers with slow internet connections to create clips as the editor simply doesn't load correctly because it takes too long to download the video.

The new update is bad. I get what you were trying to do, but it is ruining what people already liked about the app in order to add something that MIGHT be nice.

Instead of removing the old and replacing it with the new, I would suggest instead keeping it how it was, and simply adding a new tab with the new discovery function.

Think of Instagram. You have your homepage/tab that (mostly) only shows you stuff by people you follow. Then there is a separate tab for discovering new stuff that the algorithm thinks you might like. Adopt that approach instead of replacing the old "home" tab with the new discovery thing and then only giving us a poor replacement in the form of the "following" list.

Looking at the current version of the twitch App, the "Home" tab should basically be what the previous version was, where it includes all the live streams you follow along with preview thumbnails and stream titles. Have tabs at the top that let you toggle between followed streams and followed categories (the new app doesn't even let you follow categories any more?). Then the "Browse" tab at the bottom can be what the current home screen is, where it pushes live streams that the algorithm thinks you might like, and then has tabs at the top that let you toggle between that and a search/category screen like whats currently there. You could even flip those, making the "home" the one with stuff that the algorithm thinks we might like if that's what you really want the users to see first, and then have a "followed" tab that is like I described above.

There's no reason we can't have the best of both worlds, what some (everyone?) liked about the old version, while integrating what you wanted to add to the new version.

Looking at the comments posted here, you must already be aware that at least a large portion of your user base doesn't like the change, but in case you missed it, here's a link to a much larger group of people on Reddit also talking about the problems with the new update. It's pretty clearly unpopular.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/1eh2c8j/the_newest_twitch_update_megathread/

I'm gonna be honest I really despise this new app update overall, it's hard to get into how little I like it. It'd harder to view what I like, I can't view channels I want that aren't live, I can't view my own stuff as easily. It's insanely bad and near useless unless I click a notification to join a stream I see.

I can't sort, I can't see what I want, it auto plays, no p.i.p when searching, and it's lost functionality as a streamer myself. Just terrible.

The new discovery feed has potential, but it should not have to replace the ability to see followed channels at a glance. Please bring back the list-type view for the Home tab, and move the discovery feed to its own separate tab.

I can't believe I can't sort streamers by viewer count. Please fix this.

Also, if it could just open to my followed streamers list like it did before that would be great.

I and likely most twitch users prefer to use it to view content over a competitor like tiktok because we loathe tiktok and everything about it. it is counterintuitive to try and emulate a style that is antithetical to everything users enjoy about the application.

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.

Please make the discovery feed optional!

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

This goes hand-in-hand with the Mobile App Redesign thread, frankly.

https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310222-twitch-applications-mobile/suggestions/48480953-mobile-app-redesign-general-feedback

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.