Down-size, Move Down, or Disable Featured Clip
The “Featured Clip” is frustratingly oversized and takes up way to much space. It doesn’t need to be above “Live” or “Recommended” either. Move it down or make it a tab at the bottom with the other search features.
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dragonGOD8 commented
Just like every other comment here, I've just started unfollowing any streamer that uses featured clips in order to remove this enormous waste of space at the top of the Live Feed tab. Twitch is not for old content to me, and it never will be. It feels bad to unfollow streamers that I enjoy watching and have followed for years, just so I don't have to have days old content shoved in my face, but that's what I'm going to keep doing until this goes away.
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homeboundpanda commented
There needs to be an option to remove “featured clips” from the Following page. It now wanted or needed on a screen with limited space
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LockAnomaly commented
Assuming this topic is the "Recently Featured Clips" feature on mobile or otherwise, I agree 100% that this should be either removed or moved. My list of issues with this "feature":
1. I personally never go through a streamer's clips. I watch streamers for live gameplay, or watch their previous broadcasts. Not "clips".
2. When I open the app and click "Following", my first and primary objective is receiving a list of live streamers. My secondary objective would be a list of categories I follow. Dead last would be the "clips" a streamer or their chat has made. I have defaulted to unfollowing every streamer I have followed for years because of this feature, simply because its obstructive and sometimes "harmful." As an example, I had been avoiding any information about Baldur's Gate 3 in an effort to have a purely unhindered first playthrough. Turns out, the "recently featured clip" system hit me with a few spoilers because they're right in your **** face when opening the mobile app... Well f* me then.
3. If you're going to add a feature like this, you should at least allow it to be customized. Allow the consumer to toggle off the feature in the settings, choose a number of clips to show, or how long a clip should be visible to you. Some of the clips are 3+ days old, and I can tell you right now, while I don't care about clips in general, I definitely don't care about something that old.
4. If you're not going to let us toggle the feature through settings, at least put it in its own feature tab (as described by other consumers in other comments). This would allow you to have your obvious competition with tiktok or instagram stories or whatever while not ruining what was working perfectly fine in other areas of the app. We aren't following "clips", we're following streamers. Clips are *not* the primary form of viewing content on Twitch. -
Rusted commented
Every feature implemented needs an user end option to toggle it off.
The "featured clips" was implemented in such an obtuse way that I've just unfollowed the streamers that use it.
This is a streamer specific feature, so it needs to be in streamer specific context, ie. on the streamer's channel when visiting, or in a general site wide specific tab like the "Discover" or "Browse" tab.
Not on the following tab where it takes up a massive chunk of the screen (it's larger than the live channel thumbnails) and the opposite of what the following tab is for, live channel indication.Please immediately remove/deactivate this feature as it's absolutely not being helpful and causing actual damage to streamers as they lose followers over your inept implementation.
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iinkzi commented
Please update this or let me disable it. This feature has been so annoying to deal with and the only solution I’ve found is just to unfollow any streamer that has featured clips, which seems like the exact opposite goal of this feature.
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thatweirdodante commented
STOP SOUNG THINGS THAT NO ONE LITERALLY ASKED FOR!!!!
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zadkiel333 commented
recently there was a soft update where when you get on the app the first thing you see is “recently featured clips” this needs to be removed immediately or at least given the option to disable. it takes way too much screen and the first thing i rather see is who’s live and not clips.
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UserNotValid commented
A streamer I follow just uploaded a clip which shows up in my “recently featured clips”. I want to hide this clip from my view because it contains content which is absolutely not interesting to me (to say the least).
The only options I currently see when I click on the clip is to either view streamer’s profile or unfollow them. So I guess I will have to unfollow them to not see this clip all the time.
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Marc_Goes commented
I have zero interest in seeing featured clips on the top of the screen on the mobile app. There should be an optional feature on whether the user wants feature clips to be displayed.
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historyeraserbutton commented
Agreed. This is a horrible change to the user experience. Too much real estate, clips with undesired content can't be removed, theres not even an option to move it to the bottom of the "Following" screen.
Does twitch even bother to test ideas like this with users before they make dramatic UI changes? "Featured Clips" is garbage. -
historyeraserbutton commented
Agreed! Remove or relocate. "Featured Clips" takes up too much screen real estate. There is no way to disable it, and the clips can't be removed individually or in bulk.
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JurassicFire commented
Flush the featured clip. Every time I see it when I open the twitch app I immediately close the app.
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Keledistus commented
Im on board with this. First of all, it is annoying to not be able to remove it. Second of all, I'm seeing things from a game that isnt out on console yet that I wish to keep in the dark about untill I can play the game myself.
So if it can be removed one way or another, that would be great.
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danxski commented
Recently featured clips should not be at the top of the home screen when you first open up twitch. It takes up too much room and no one wants that to be the first thing they see. Either remove it, place it at the bottom, or add an option to turn it off
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Bay__Leaf commented
Please!!! It’s so annoying having it at the top of the page
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cochesecg commented
it is beyond annoying to see this clip at the top of the app. remove or relocate to the bottom. also having to uncheck featured clips on a specific channel is also annoying.
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Spring_Moss commented
I already voted for this comment but just want to emphatically reiterate that having to scroll past "Recently Featured Clips" to see the live channels I follow is deeply annoying. Thank you.
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bossdawg32 commented
The Featured Clip only shows 1 clip on the mobile app. I see it everytime I login in and there is no way to remove it. Please have an option to remove the Featured Clip. What happens when it's extremely offensive to me or others? I literary have to see it everyday I open the app. The most popular clip may not be the most appropriate for all audiences, or may not be appropriate at all. Even though someone follows a streamer, they may not agree with everything they say or do. But to have the Featured Clip be something they disagree with, or take a offense to, and see it everytime they open the app without any way to remove it, may not be the best way to retain said viewer.
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KatjeMauw commented
relocate that new clip thing "featured clips"?
i am on my follow list to see whos live streaming, not to watch clips
give those there own tab or something but please get them out of my list of live streams of people i follow -
NoPhantasm commented
Remove “featured clips” from the top of my Following page. Surely this must be a bug because no dev in their right mind would think this is a good idea.