What Twitch needs: random streamers get to the frontpage, 1 per day.

So Twitch is getting the whole 'hype train' nonsense thing to get people on the frontpage, even though most of these are the... ahem... 'female streamers in skimpy clothes in sexually suggestive positions/nude' or already popular streamers, driving a massive wedge for discoverability for smaller yet entertaining streamers.

It wouldnt be crazy for Twitch to simply take one random streamer from the bottom drawers (with some kind of filter to prevent the typical moronic '18+SUPER STREAM !SUPPORT !PATREON !TIPS HYPE FOR FORTNITE!' **** from people with zero viewers and followers) and give him something like an hour on the front page so others can see his content and choose to follow him based on their streamer abilities such as interactivity with chat, content, commentary, etc.

With this, Twitch wins in both ways: you get more streamers, you get more popularity with both viewers and streamers and more discoverability means more people are going to buy bits and subs to people they want to support.

Also, i think that DSP should be banned from Twitch and Youtube. Thank you.

Finally, if this eventually gets implemented, please at least give a shoutout for my channel. Thanks!

Twitch is always asking what they can do better to help elevate and support their bipoc/marginalized creators, but also if they do a good job growing them. My answer to that question has always been a strong no. It feels like there are no means for bipoc/marginalized creators who are not white or white passing to get opportunities such as often being on front page or even marketing unless you know someone who knows someone, or in general are favored by someone within the company. When I contact support as a partner how to be on front page more frequently and what are the requirement I get the same copy pasta stating I need to maintain 200 subs that aren't gift but also not be on front page in the last 6 month which often confuses me, because the same white/white passing creators be on front page all the time. I feel often time the responses and requirements feel gate keep-y of marginalized creators trying to find ways to grow or opportunities in general. This even happened to me when trying to get on board for marketing for pride month, black history month, or women's history month...I do all the things that are asked of me and my due diligence even contact support/community team months before events and either never hear back or get the generic copy pasta response. It feels disheartening to love this platform and to had been making content on it since 2014 to feel overlooked, ignored, and especially disliked from a platform I have so much love and passion for. With these constant road blocks though it's very telling that it seem twitch doesn't want to help highlight their marginalized creator especially the bipoc ones unless it is during our holidays, weeks, or etc. I hope that changes. I hope there are more ways black creators can get in better communication to be considered for front page consistently.

p.s I still don't have a partner manager and have been partnered since 2020

I've been a Twitch viewer for years and a content creator for a little over a year now. I dont watch regular TV (for lack of a better term), just Twitch. Theres tons of great content creators out there unfortunately every time I visit the front page, its the same 5-10 streamers EVERY DAY getting all the publicity. Not only is it always the same streamers but its virtually all from the 'music' category which isn't a category I'm interested in. So not only is Twitch cherry-picking the talents they want to see succeed, they're not delivering me content that I might be interested in.

This isn't something new; you'll find countless posts in the uservoice echoing this same sentiment. In the meantime, smaller streamers struggle to get recognition and grow their channel and community. I play the guitar...it's fun...and people enjoy music but no one listens to the same 5 artists over and over and over and over and over every day for months on end...yet the front page is continually occupied by the same 5 musicians over and over and over and over for months. They've had their moment in the sun. It's time to give others a fair shake.

I DONT WATCH MUSIC STREAMS SO STOP PUTTING THEM AND THE SAME 5 PEOPLE ON THE FRONT PAGE.

Twitch logs everything we do on the site. They keep track of everything we watch so it can't be that hard to tweak the front page algorithm to deliver new and relevant content to viewers.

Theres countless other websites and services we can use to listen to music. It's sad to see Twitch deliberately turning itself into a 2nd rate Spotify or YouTube Music. While "XXXinBoston" and "***'sSpace" and "XXXtheAnarchist" strum away at their guitars on the front page (full name's withheld because it's not their fault), other talented streamers are shutting down their streams because Twitch buries them...literally BURIES them...and makes it virtually impossible for smaller content creators and communities to succeed.

I like league of legends but didnt use twitch ever because I like watching certain champions in certain lanes. So twitch is unuseable for 'discovery' for league of legends streams because u just have to go in one at a time wait for ads then see what champion, then back out and repeat until you decide why am I here again and why did I think anything would have changed. I noticed ward.tv long time later by coincidence someone posted it as a link somewhere. Anyway u could search on multiple champions rank region and specify which sides for which champions (allied or opposing, such as varus plus annie bot vs a jungle amumu) for each and somehow it tells you what games all qualify. that was forever ago. that made twitch something useful, wish I knew it existed back when it did exist and then didnt put off using it until it stopped existing. I assume they only went away because u appeared to try to come out with a similar feature, why bother just absorb theres why recreate the wheel. but now urs doesn't exist and theres doesnt either now. its so annoying. this site has live league of legends games and there never has been a live champion filter. top teemo one trick pony games float to the top and I wonder how much of it is same for me that people are giving up searching and watching them because at least they know what champion is being played. I like teemo but i'd be watching other stuff if I could know who is playing it when. I'm not clicking on a 1000 live stream windows just to spend 8 hours finding out which one is playing a certain champion only to find I clicked on them all at the wrong time in the wrong order.

I am currently the record holder of most live streams in a row/ daily. The old record was 2000 in a row and as of tonight Nov 6 2021 I am at 2358 days.

I don't know of any programs or hey check this channel out for this record he set or any way to get noticed for doing incredible things. There hopefully will be a way for those channels that work incredibly hard to get noticed or put somewhere where people can find them.

Just an idea or something to help small channels out that deserve views and growth when they follow the rules, do daily content, break records and any other tag that would fit here.

I really enjoy using the 'Clips We Think You'll Like' segment on the home page and I think a lot of others would too - if it were more clear and useable.

It really could benefit Twitch to improve this feature to be similar to a TikTok kind of thing. People would spend a lot of time watching the clips and it would boost time users spent on the app. People talk about Twitch slowly falling behind competitors features-wise. It's not that the features aren't there. It's just not intuitive.

To filter out clips that shouldn't be shown on the page, don't show clips that haven't been edited, be that by title or length of the clip. This means that the funniest moments of everyone's streams would be in one place. Good for keeping up with channels you follow and discoverability.

Other than just enjoyment, there's the fact that everyone seems to be slowly getting more and more disillusioned with the discoverability on Twitch. More and more people are moving to YouTube. With this feature, that would no longer be an issue. I have followed many people that have popped up in my 'Clips We Think You'll Like' page and so would others, if it wasn't so hidden. Add a more useable version of this, in it's own tab maybe, where users can scroll to go through the clip. Make the follow button easily clickable during the clip and people can follow streamers they think they'll like. This would also give the Twitch Mobile App a much needed renovation and with something like this, I am sure people would be coming to the app a lot more.

I can see only positives for everyone. Think on it dudes, you guys are way smarter than me. I am sure you can figure it out.
Love,
Oreosamh <3