[Feature] Stories on Twitch
Stories on Twitch is a new feature in the Twitch mobile app that helps you stay connected with your community when you’re not live. Stories let you share photos, clips, or freeform content using text, custom channel emotes, and backgrounds that expire in 48 hours. Creating stories is currently limited to Partners & Affiliates who have had at least one stream in the last 30 days. Streamers with at least 30 subscribers (including gift subs) will also have the option to create sub-only stories. Learn more about stories and current eligibility requirements in our Help Article: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/stories. We'd love to learn what else you'd like to see so share with us your feedback.
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NoMenosControl commented
Please let us disable this feature entirely. I don't want to see stories from any of my followed streamers. I don't want to receive any notifications about them or see them at all when I load the app. The first thing I see when I open the app should be the currently live streams of those that I follow, not some ripped off Instagram/Facebook feature.
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Displaced_Salad commented
Notifications for these stories should have a global switch to turn them off in addition to being adjusted by streamer. Frankly, there should be a mobile notification page to easily adjust per streamer preferences, as many people follow quite a number of channels. It also follows the same format that created quite an outcry when featured clips were debuted: it takes up too much screen real estate.
The feature itself is a redundancy from several other social media apps, therefore unnecessary and doesn't mesh well with the usage/consumption of media on Twitch mobile, in my opinion. While I do understand that it can be used to notify viewers in a shifting online landscape, notifications already exist.
The time, effort and money used to implement another feature that doesn't actually solve some of the more glaring user issues with the mobile app is wasted and another example of the often thoughtless manner in which features are added. TPTB at Twitch have demonstrated an unwillingness to listen to users/creators in regards to implementation of ideas far too often, disregarding suggestions as criticism instead.
Innovation and keeping apprised of online trends/usage is indeed important but some of these features are akin to a new roof on a burning building.
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blade99990000 commented
you need to make a button to toggle all story notifications and have all story notifications off by default
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qiyra commented
Another voice for uploaded videos!
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xdthunder97 commented
notifications should be easier to turn off and on, feels like the channel page for the mobile app is rarely used.
i think notifications for stories should be off by default, and have a button on stories that people can click to turn them on for specific streamers
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DacuTV commented
Stories on PC/browser!
I'm too "blind"/old to use a small phone screen, also, the ergonomics of engaging in content on a mobile device are crippling. -
Surgical_Slinky commented
Let us hide them completely. I’ve had to turn off notifications for every single channel I follow because of this tiresome ****
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HoKogan007 commented
Please add videos to stories
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Choconekomenta commented
queria criar alguns stories, enquanto não to com um pc bom pra voltar a fazer lives, stories é uma boa maneira de criar algum conteúdo extra e conteúdo pra quem não tem um bom pc ou nem tem algum aparelho em que de pra fazer lives como Vtuber
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itsTonySNARK commented
I LOVE this feature. Twitch creators have desperately needed a method to communicate directly to our followers on the platform when we're not live for so long. Until now we had to painstakingly try to get people over to our Discord or other social platforms and hope they see updates there. This is SO helpful! Thank you for finally introducing it.
I'm pretty sure everyone complaining and saying no to this feature is probably just a viewer who doesn't stream themselves and know the struggle and realize why this feature is so helpful to those who do stream. They're just on the "ew its like instagram/tiktok" mindset and should try to understand from a streamer's perspective how this is a very good feature. And the row at the top of the app does not take up that much space. Those saying let me toggle it: just scroll an inch and wow they're gone! You can easily ignore it if you really want to, but tell me honestly that you don't want to see updates from your favorite creators/streamers? You don't want to know if someone's rescheduling their stream or announcing something that they can't go live for?
I think they are perfect where they are. Someone opens the app and immediately can see updates from their followed streamers. I'm also seeing updates from channels I forgot I followed but want to get back involved with. It's great! Please do not relegate them to another tab because people forget to check other tabs. Stories are a perfect mode for updates right on the home page.
Some feedback on what I think can be improved:
I would love to be able to see WHO reacted to my stories and maybe who viewed them as well. And it would also be really nice if people could reply to stories with text, even if it's got a character limit.
Also some more reactions, such as thumbs up and thumbs down would be useful, or something like a poll widget so we can gauge interest or get feedback from followers.
And it would be helpful if we could freehand zoom, move, and rotate clips however we want.
Also a pen/doodle tool might be nice.
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BahamutJiraiya commented
Not really interested in posting details off stream. It feels like a waste of time due to not being a fan of the mobile app.
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No_Lollygaggin commented
Offer the ability to minimize this shelf in the mobile experience. It takes up a lot of already limited real estate and not every user wants to view this in place of discovering folks who are Live.
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No_Lollygaggin commented
The option to mute just stories instead of all notifications for a creator is helpful as this can be noisy
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No_Lollygaggin commented
I want my paid subs to be able to use the emotes they get as a way to react to stories. It's just one more benefit to the sub they are paying for
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RenaultFT commented
Give us an option to hide them from the beginning. More visual clutter makes me less inclined to click on them, not because I don't want to, but because I'm now refusing to use the feature out of spite for how it was implemented, even if it is a good feature
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KreativePixie commented
No, just NO. If I wanted stories, I would go back to using YouTube, or look to FB or IG. I'd even establish a TikTok, but I came to Twitch to get away from that BS plus the abundance of ads. There needs to be a way to disable stories and only view the content we are paying for (IE Turbo, channels subbed to etc) Adding them in just makes you blend in more with YouTube. The only thing that they will do is take up viewing space and bog the system even more that is already twitch glitchy
To those saying that "I'm sure the ones complaining are not streamers" and "they don't take up that much space" They take up 1/3rd of the space on android in portrait mode and the full screen in landscape mode, followed by clips. And without viewers that may or may not stream, you have no platform on twitch. People come to watch vods and lives not for the stories or clips. Without a way to disable them they are bogging down the mobile platform. Thank you Twitch for helping me spend less money and minimize my followage as I've been unfollowing and unsubbing due to the stories and I'll go to Turbo only since the price of that also increased and I refuse to pay for a feature that is 1) on other platforms for free and 2) due to the increase in ads and when Prime users even have to pay an extra fee to go ad free on videos then turbo will go away as well.
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Noe_JH commented
I love the new stories, and most of the small creators like me like that feature, It's a great feature to stay connected with the people that somewhat don't want to follow us on another social media. But I would like to add video on my Twitch Stories, even wanted my first story to be special but when I went to upload, there wasn't an option for videos, or to add music to photos. This make the stories less appealing. Also it would be a blast to have them on desktop version. Please don't take stories away, I've been waiting for so long to have a community feature in Twitch.
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Neroocean commented
I would like a way to block them from appearing, I will never use them and don't want them to taking up space in the app.
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jack_o_banter commented
Stories have been out for 24 hours and I'm already annoyed by them. Get them outta here!
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MoonlightBunnies commented
Please remove this or add this to the bottom, I am only watching live videos not stories on mobile.