[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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Wataxxx
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Thanks for implementing this feature!
Let me give you feedback right away!We are able to use clips in stories, but we are seeing some glitches!
1,Clips are not displayed in the first place (android and iOS issue?).
2、All clips are not displayed.If these problems can be solved, I think users will use the story feature even more!
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BomberCanuck
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Great idea for a concept! The stories I usually upload on other social media apps are short videos announcing that I'm going live and what I'll be playing. It's probably been said already, but... can we add the ability to either record short videos or upload clips stored on our phones or drives?
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keelllzzz
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Hi, I am a moderator for a Twitch Partner who stream more than 30 minutes per/week or hour , and he did the update of the app, uninstalled it and reinstalled, but can't see or make stories. Can someone help me please? And thank you! :)
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XtianNinja
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I really appreciate this feature, but as a mainly desktop user I can't create a custom short in my video editing software and then upload it as a Story. The ability to upload to shorts using desktop would be great.
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T_major
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I like the feature and have been using it a lot, but they need to be viewable on Desktop! Being mobile only limits the reach they have and the value they have overall. Youtube and Tik Tok all let you view their mobile formatted content on desktop.
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オクトゲイシャ
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i feel stories shouldnt just be on mobile as on mobile ive been struggling to share clips
also a seprate notifaction for these would be nice (to turn on or off)
if you follow alot you will be easly overwhelmed ! -
kaiwenliao371
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Hi 👋
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miguelitom15
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Story:
Great feature, although I would like viewers to see your story even if they don't need to be followers, thus creating a faster way to grow on the platform. -
NoMenosControl
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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_Salade
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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
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you need to make a button to toggle all story notifications and have all story notifications off by default
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qiyra
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Another voice for uploaded videos!
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xdthunder97
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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
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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
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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
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Please add videos to stories
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Choconekomenta
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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
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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
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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
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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.