It would serve the interests of major content creator channels if Twitch added an option to move or hide the stories shelf for regular users. Currently, unfollowing content creators who use the stories feature is the only way to remove the unwanted stories shelf from the for you tab (and other places where it may automatically consume space). I have already unfollowed multiple channels just this morning for specifically this purpose, and fully intend to continue unfollowing content creators to this end. I am not the only user who is doing this, and it surely must be starting to have an impact on the follower count of the largest channels here on Twitch; anybody who posts a story, regardless of content or tone, winds up seeing their follower count take a nosedive over the next several days. Your new feature, due to aggressively poor implementation, is objectively harmful to your platform. This can very easily be mitigated by just giving us the option to hide the ridiculous thing and move on.

Please allow me to disable stories, this adds no value to my use of your platform.

I'll say this too!!... I am not interested in having snapchat on twitch, please allow us to hide or move this somewhere it won't be visible

hallo hir dirk wollte mal fragrn wie ich bei twitch onelin gehen

I am not interested in having snapchat on twitch, please allow us to hide or move this somewhere it won't be visible

It just results in an error since the app updated. It always says story failed to post. Please fix it.

数日間ストーリー投稿しようとすると、投稿失敗したといわれて投稿ができません。

I have tried to post a story for a couple days now and I always get the failed to post error.

I haven't been able to post a story since the new update. I've worked through all the instructions support provided.
Android

I have been completely unable to use it for about the past 2 weeks because no matter what I try to post I receive a "failed to post" error message. Trying to post a Clip in Stories are impossible now for me, what should i do?

And again... make it hideable - why copy this **** from every social media trash. There are at least too many places (Discord/Insta/FB/Messengers/Mail/X/ect.) for creator to stay in follower minds. But i can hide them. Only twitch thinks: Hey, great idea. Dont need to test it - make it live - everybody wants it! Reality: No! There ist too much commecial. We dont need more Banners, Button, Blinkings...

Please make it so we can at least pause or edit the streams on the front page. i fricking hate it when smth just starts playing and theres no way to disable or hide it. Stories are useless and annoying, autoplay makes me aggressive. Give me back my old starting page, this sucks!

Please PLEASE allow Stories to be hideable on the Following page. The Following Shelf takes up way more screen space that seems necessary and this is especially noticeable when you are fallowing only one or two streamers actually using the feature which results in a good chunk of the screen now being resigned to empty blank black space. The Stories notification on the left-hand menu? I'm fine with that, but both it and the Stories Shelf together feels really unnecessary.

Between Stories and the Subtember banner, nearly half of the screen real estate on my Following page is taken up by things I don't want and have no way to disable. Stories should absolutely not take priority over the people I follow and are currently live. Please allow us to remove or disable it from appearing in our following page.

Stories are not cool, and create a negative user experience.
Why are you clogging up my navigation?

It's really cool that my entire sidebar is replaced with stories the instant someone posts one. I love losing access to my own curated content for another terrible idea. You guys wouldn't have had to increase sub prices if you'd just stop spending money on features nobody asked for.

Also I've had to unfollow 2 channels just to get rid of their stories. I hate it that much.

It's lame. I don't care about a stories I want to just watch the stream.

So I actually don't mind the stories feature, however I have been completely unable to use it for about the past 2 weeks because no matter what I try to post I receive a "failed to post" error message. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app (I'm on android). I've triple checked that it's the most up to date version and I can't use it. Please keep in mind prior to 2 weeks ago I was able to use the function but only for my own photos I would upload. The preloaded backgrounds in the app have never been able to be posted for me I will add.

I'm hoping this can be resolved soon.

Stories just showed up on my PC. Please allow me to disable them.

Let me disable stories. Right now the only thing I can do to reclaim this space on my following page is to unfollow streamers making stories. This features is pushing lower view count streamers even further down the page.