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1. Feature small, quality streamers

   On the frontpage, feature 1 small, quality streamer, next to the top streamers. Newcomers and hidden gems could be featured there to give them some more exposure. Obviously it has to be a quality stream so they could/should be picked by the twitch staff.

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2. Feature Indigenous Streamers

   November is Native American/Alaska Native Heritage month do you have any plans to highlight this or feature Native Streamers?

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3. Small Streamer Support

   Twitch is increasingly seeing success in large, full-time partnered streamers who seem to be growing in mainstream recognition and opportunities, but what is or can Twitch do to help dedicated small streamers get visibility to avoid a YouTube-like situation where it's only for the celebrities.

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4. add a "new streamer page" So That new streamers can get the publicity they deserve!

   when i was a small streamer i found it hard to get followers. i had a good quality stream and a couple of friends who watched my stream. and i think that new streamers are pretty much abandoned, they should get the chance to get bigger instead of waiting months for just a couple of viewers to pop buy

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5. Use clips as a discoverability feature

   Basically add an option to get clips based on your game interests as a neverending feed, similar to the TikTok For You page or Instagram Explore tab.

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6. Random Stream Button

   The discovery page lacks a "Play Random" feature. It might be fun and interesting to enter a random stream in a Category. It might help casual and new users find entertaining streams much easily and faster.
   The user that clicks on the button will be forwarded to a random stream in the previously chosen category. To find another stream the user will simply click on the same button that will appear on the header of the page.

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7. Small Streamer Appreciation Month

   There needs to be a biannual event where the entire Twitch community can celebrate and help uplift the hard work us small streamers put in when planning something special for our communities only to end up with little to no payoff.

   For this, it could be setup a set of benefits that are active to any streamer who has been streaming actively for six months atleast and is currently streaming below an average of 20 viewers:

   Outside of any contractual agreements with companies, (i.e, Nintendo Directs, major game reveal streams, etc) the entire Front Page is taken over by small streamers, so the recommendations give you streamers based on what your interested in, while being below that threshold, the carousel rotates out streamers either every two hours per streamer per day, or after five minutes if the streamer goes offline before their two hours are up.

   A 2x multiplier is applied to all viewers, on top of the subscriber multiplier.

   Ad free viewing, regardless of subscription status or the ad free viewing setting being disabled.

   All bits dropped being worth an extra 50%.

   50% off new subs, gift subs and resubs at any tier for the month.

   A weekly instant $25 injection for any Partners who raids any streamer they've found on the front page.

   A set of emotes that can be earned through supporting small streamers in any of these ways, similar to the Hindsight 2020 event.

   Including a second set that any streamers, regardless of Partnership status and their viewers can earn by raiding multiple small streamers over the course of the month.

   And a third set only granted to people who hit the top 3 spots of the individual gift sub and bit leaderboards by the end of Small Streamer Appreciation Month.

   There needs to be a biannual event where the entire Twitch community can celebrate and help uplift the hard work us small streamers put in when planning something special for our communities only to end up with little to no payoff.

   For this, it could be setup a set of benefits that are active to any streamer who has been streaming actively for six months atleast and is currently streaming below an average of 20 viewers:

   Outside of any contractual agreements with companies, (i.e, Nintendo Directs, major game reveal streams, etc) the entire Front Page is taken over by small… more

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8. Recently Watched

   There should be a “recently watched” section, which shows channels that you have recently watched. It would make sense to have this because people are more likely to return to a stream that they have recently watched regardless of being a follower.

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9. Have each category have its own "front page carosel"

   This would be every month have new creators highlighted in those sections. This would be a great way to promote twitch ambassadors more as well as creators that are really just making great content regardless of their small size. Right now its incredibly difficult to get any exposure on twitch and i think this would be great right now.

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10. Maybe a "Twitch Kids".

    I'm 14 turning 15, and no adult wants to watch a kid stream, ive been streaming the past 11 months and im barely growing.

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11. Change the Model from Game > Stream to Genre > Game_Genre > Game > Stream + Sorting options

    Hi,

    Currently the model for viewing games in the directory is difficult to traverse as a user. I scroll through looking for quirky titles or just genres that I'm only interested in i.e. FPS, Strategy or DeathMatch, Horror etc and instead of it being this lovely categorized experience I feel like i'm on an endless scrolling journey.

    As the title suggests, my suggestion is having the option to break the model into the following:

    Genre > Game_Genre > Game > Stream

    This way I can go from say FPS > Horror > SpookyFps3 > MrHorrorTV

    Plus an additional nice option would then to be allowed to sort those streams by the different statistics I have available to me i.e. viewer numbers, alphabetical, time running etc.

    Hi,

    Currently the model for viewing games in the directory is difficult to traverse as a user. I scroll through looking for quirky titles or just genres that I'm only interested in i.e. FPS, Strategy or DeathMatch, Horror etc and instead of it being this lovely categorized experience I feel like i'm on an endless scrolling journey.

    As the title suggests, my suggestion is having the option to break the model into the following:

    Genre > Game_Genre > Game > Stream

    This way I can go from say FPS > Horror > SpookyFps3 > MrHorrorTV

    Plus an additional nice option… more

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12. More help for newer streamers

    More help with pushing viewers towards newer people, maybe incentives for them to watch. Include smaller streamers into events and such to help get their names out?

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13. Twitch Discover

    As we know discoverability on Twitch is not great, if we want to get discovered we need to make and upload content to YouTube, which while better is still not great to get discovered with how over saturated the content is on there. This is why I want to bring this idea forward.

    Much like Instagram to share photos and videos in a wide space to discover things that get recommended based on what you look at and who you follow this would be just for Twitch clips and Highlight.

    Twitch Discover - An app where you login with your Twitch to create your profile, from this you can click upload and it will bring up clips and highlights of your channel to upload.

    Within your settings you select the categories you are interested in i.e. Fortnite, Valorant, Call of Duty etc and then in the Discover tab you only see Clips and Highlights of the selected categories. On these clips and highlights you can go to the persons profile to follow them which also follows them on Twitch so they can check them out when they are live.

    When a person is live their profile can show a live symbol to let people know they are so they can come over and check them out right away.

    Even if a person is not a streamer they can still make an account in order to browse the discover tab to find new people to watch.

    Here is a quick 2 minute video of me explaining the idea if it helps give a better idea: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1157990843

    As we know discoverability on Twitch is not great, if we want to get discovered we need to make and upload content to YouTube, which while better is still not great to get discovered with how over saturated the content is on there. This is why I want to bring this idea forward.

    Much like Instagram to share photos and videos in a wide space to discover things that get recommended based on what you look at and who you follow this would be just for Twitch clips and Highlight.

    Twitch Discover - An app where you login with your… more

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14. Custom thumbnail timing through button

    Twitch automatically generates thumbnail images that are shown in the grid view when scrolling through a category at random times from the stream output .

    With most categories on Twitch the automatic thumbnail feature is just fine, as the content on stream matches up with what you want to show for discovery.
    However, with the "Software and Game Development" category that is not necessarily the case.

    The best way for people to discover me is to be interested in the game I make. Optimally the thumbnail would show me showing off the current state of the game and people that are interested into the artstyle / gameplay type / setting / etc. would click on it.
    As it currently stands however, us programmers spend most of the time in our code editor which is not representative of the work we create. Viewers trying to decide on a stream have to base their selection of the appearance of the wall of text on your screen (dark / light theme, camera, layout, ...) instead of the game / application you are creating, which is probably the interesting thing about the work.

    This puts me in a very difficult conflict of interest as a content creator:
    - for discovery it would be optimal for me to have the game on screen as often as possible to increase the chance of the thumbnail showing off the game
    - for content the work in progress game is not the interesting thing but the actual work in the code editor which is what people watch me for

    That way I have to decide if I want good content or good discoverability which is really bad.

    My proposed solution is to add a button to the stream manager that takes a screenshot of the current stream output and uses that moment as a thumbnail until manually refreshed.

    That way I could just show off my game, show a nicely framed image of the game, press the button and continue my work, without having to worry about the discoverability of my thumbnail anymore.

    Furthermore for viewers searching for streamers this would improve the experience, as they suddenly have the choice between different games and art styles instead of a huge list of walls of code (selection of 1000 bowls of oat meals).

    Twitch automatically generates thumbnail images that are shown in the grid view when scrolling through a category at random times from the stream output .

    With most categories on Twitch the automatic thumbnail feature is just fine, as the content on stream matches up with what you want to show for discovery.
    However, with the "Software and Game Development" category that is not necessarily the case.

    The best way for people to discover me is to be interested in the game I make. Optimally the thumbnail would show me showing off the current state of the game and people that… more

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15. Twitch Discover (Updated)

    On September 24th I posted an idea for a new app for Twitch that would be like TikTok or YouTube for Twitch clips, this is because short form content is much more consumable.

    Upon discussion and feedback from streamers this should not be an app, since it would be much harder to get people to download and use the app. Instead this should be built right into the site already.

    On the front page where you see the 4 purple buttons that say Games, IRL, Music and ESports, there should be a 5th tab called Discover or maybe better yet just labelled Clips.

    Twitch would not need to do anything besides add the tab and leave the rest to the creators. Right now on Twitch the clips you see are only from the people you already follow at least on the home page, if you click on a clip to watch in a new tab it shows 4 other clips related to the category of the clip you are watching, then 4 of the top popular clips.

    This clip system is terrible since the popular ones are not even catered towards you, and while the first 4 might be because they are the same category you only get 1 new clip revealed if you click on one of them. This barely gets anybody exposure or helps them grow.

    This is what I propose, make the tab and leave it in the hands of the creators to share their clips in this tab, all Twitch needs to do is have the tab catered to show clips from the categories people are wanting to see. This gives users a much wider range of clips to see to discover new people.

    In one section people can now see Pokémon, Fortnite, Minecraft etc, a very wide range of clips and allows for discoverability to all people on a level playing field. Additionally, if the streamer is live, have it show they are live around their profile picture by the clip so that people can come check out their streams right away and follow if they like the clip.

    This keeps people on the platform which is very beneficial to not only Twitch but the streamers as well since it will bring increased traffic to their channels, and bring new growth to not only the big streamers but most importantly, the small streamers.

    On September 24th I posted an idea for a new app for Twitch that would be like TikTok or YouTube for Twitch clips, this is because short form content is much more consumable.

    Upon discussion and feedback from streamers this should not be an app, since it would be much harder to get people to download and use the app. Instead this should be built right into the site already.

    On the front page where you see the 4 purple buttons that say Games, IRL, Music and ESports, there should be a 5th tab called Discover or maybe better yet… more

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16. Discovery Through Chat Engagement

    As many of you know twitch has little to no discoverability so I considered ideas on how that could change. Engagement is a huge part of a strong community and this system would reward it. The idea came to me from the Pre Roll Ad function. Pre roll ads are the ads you encounter when entering a streamers stream and twitch has a way to temporarily turn them OFF. When you manually run an ad from the dashboard the Pre Roll Ads turn off for a designated amount of time based on the length of the ad you ran. So I thought why can’t the “view” count do something similar through chat engagement? Let’s say you have 5 viewers and 2 of them are actively engaging with your stream, you would get a “phantom” +2 viewers. Your viewer count would remain 5 but you “engagement” number would be 7. The thought is that you would change position in the category you are in based on your "Engagement" number rather than your view count. This way more engaging communities will see quicker growth while being higher in the category of their choosing.

    My thoughts were chat engagement would give you 60 seconds per the individual chatter, this timer would have to run down before it could be reset just like the Pre-Roll Ad Off function. Subscriptions would grant you 120 seconds, follows 60 seconds, cheers 90 seconds, etc. All of these counters would count per individual chatter and actions of the same type would not stack, for example if a chatter speaks in chat and says something again 15 seconds later the time will NOT add 60 more seconds until their original chat timer expired. However if that chatter follows, subscribes, cheers, etc THEN time would be added.

    Imagine being raided with this system. You could have 100 viewers and 25 active chatters giving you an “engagement” number of 125. Now imagine receiving a raid of 100 viewers in which 50 of them spammed you with emotes and messages adding 50 “phantom” views to your “engagement” count which let’s say spurs an additional 25 of your original viewers to interact in response to the raid adding 25 more “phantom” viewers to your “engagement” count. That would bring your “viewer” count to 200 and your “engagement” count to 300 AND it would last for at least 60 seconds which is longer than a lot of raiders actually stick around and that’s not including follows, cheers and subs that may also occur. Through a raid you would be able to climb higher in the category you are in and hold that position potentially long enough to organically gain additional viewers to your stream.

    If you made it this far I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas one this! Ill likely have a YouTube video discussing this topic because I would love to hear what Twitch staff would say on the subject.

    As many of you know twitch has little to no discoverability so I considered ideas on how that could change. Engagement is a huge part of a strong community and this system would reward it. The idea came to me from the Pre Roll Ad function. Pre roll ads are the ads you encounter when entering a streamers stream and twitch has a way to temporarily turn them OFF. When you manually run an ad from the dashboard the Pre Roll Ads turn off for a designated amount of time based on the length of the ad you ran. So… more

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17. index stream titles, vods and clips with google search

    I would really like it if twitch would include our stream titles, vod title, and clip titles in the sites meta description so it shows up in (close to real time) google search.

    I recently browsed a stream on Trovo live and found that they do in real time syncing with google search twitch does not.

    By even reverse searching twitch stream titles nothing shows up in google search, this is frustrating.

    I would also like to be able to search in twitch for stream/clip,vod titles and have them show up in a search results page.
    
    please add this

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18. let users link social media sites like twitter (or addressbook) to our twitch accounts to find people we already know

    I would love recommend channels to included lists of accounts I followed on twitter (as example) to show up and be promoted on the site and also have people be able to find my twitch account linked via twitter.

    Not only would I like this, I would also love to be able to incorporate my address book as well, find people I already know on twitch via my contacts.

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19. "What You Missed" feature

    For those of us who follow a lot of channels and for whatever reason aren't able to catch up on our favorite streamers, it would be nice to have a section on the front page where VODs are listed of recent streams we missed. It's hard to know who was online while you were away without going through every followed channel individually, but I think this can be streamlined.

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20. patrocinios a canales con pocos recursos

    patrocinios a canales con pocos recursos y mejorar los recomendados a canales con 0 espectadores pero con 50 seguidores

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