Currently, if you launch an extension with a streamer whitelist, there is no way to remove this whitelist once the extension is live.

I would like to suggest being able to remove (And only remove not add) the streamer whitelist once the extension is live. This will enable doing 'beta-releases', which is a very common rollout practice and has a lot of benefits for the developer.

In this way a developer can release an extension to a set group of streamers who want to participate in the beta test.

Once the developer has determined that things look good and it makes sense to open the usage to all streamers then they can remove the whitelist and do so. If however the developer sees that things arent working as expected or user behavior isnt positive, they can rework the extension and release a subsequent new version and restart the beta.

This of course should not work in the opposite flow (Add a whitelist after an extension is live) as it could break for streamers who installed the extension but then werent in the whitelist once it was applied. So the ability should be one way. You can remove the whitelist after its live once but not re-apply it.

bits revshare is obviously not enough to build a sustainable small/medium business on twitch extensions atm (except 1-2 examples out of hundreds). reasons behind as I see them - extensions are for small streamers mostly. middle/big ones are not that into extensions as a product category. thus even being featured 24/7 doesn't provide enough viewers to actually get $1000-5000 dev payout for most of devs. not to mention retention aspect.

moreover streamers are not that eager for bits. their current meta is to grow subs.

so the idea is to provide devs with ability to work with subscriptions and get a share of it per tier whenever streamer is getting new sub with the extension. in terms of the amount - same 20% would do.

It seems that it’s currently impossible to determine who is streaming to a shared channel using the Authorized Broadcaster feature. I tested on my own channels and it appears as if the https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/<mysharedchannel> endpoint does not include any information on the authorized broadcaster streaming to that channel.

Is this something in the works or planned? It would be very helpful for building extensions and bot commands for shared channels.

Note: when adding an email address to the authorized broadcaster list, it does check that the email is associated with a valid Twitch account, so this information should be available already.

The New Twitch API needs serious attention. I worked considerable with the V3 API and that was rock solid. I'm having a difficult time with the new API. It has a lot of quirks.

My biggest issue now is that certain calls return an empty response with certain parameters.

For example, if I try to filter streams with a gameid and language this will return a result with 0 items sometimes while other times it will return the correct results. The behavior is very inconsistent.
https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?gameid=33214&language=en

It works 100% of the time without the language parameter.
https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?game_id=33214

It will also filter incorrectly if the parameters are not entered in alphabetical order which is not documented.

Allow game developers to rename a game without going through customer support agents.

Right now I am trying to go through the process of updating the game name, and it has been a **** for 6 months already. Took a month go get the update happen on GiantBomb, waited few months for Twitch to synchronize, which didn't happen, then started writing to support agents.

First reply to my ticket was 2 months after I opened it. Support replied with a canned response about renaming a user...

After reopening the ticket, several weeks later I get the ticket closed again, with another canned response, this time about adding a new game.

Reopened the ticket a third time, still waiting for next response for weeks, feeling hopeless.

Renaming a game seems a simple operation, it could be performed through the creator dashboard after you claim the game, just like you'd change the box art.

Such a feature would save me a ton of grey cells. Right now I'm not sure if the game will ever be streamed properly, if it won't get renamed before launch...