This is the worst app update Twitch has ever launched. Whoever designed this doesn't watch twitch on their mobile device. Please consult with users that actually use their mobile devices to watch twitch on a regular basis before making changes like this. This is the worst experience I have ever had on the mobile app. When I am watching a stream on full screen and go back into the twitch app I want to see other streams I am interesting in without stopping the current stream. Please revert these changes. This is embarrassing

First time leaving feedback on anything Twitch-related outside of TwitchRPG, but as a frequent and long-time user of the Twitch iOS app, I am compelled by the really awful UX decisions in the latest app update to request that you revert.

Fine if you want to give me new ways to discover streamers, but shift the priority back to letting me see, at a glance, what the streamers I already follow are doing.

The worst part for me is the followed categories and the removal of vod in the categories. If you miss a stream from a less followed game then bad luck for you you will never be seen.
It made the app completely unusable for me.
I have uninstalled

Totally agree!
When looking for a stream to watch, I want to see my followed channels, what they're streaming, their stream title, the thumbnail and how long they're already streaming. All of this information gives a crucial idea what's happening in the stream and if it will be interesting to me.
With the new changes, first of all the button to open the following list jumps after app start so I'm constantly opening stuff I don't want to.
Then, the list is not ordered consistently, only shows the streamer name and the category.
Especially for categories like "Just Chatting" the stream title is necessary information to get an idea what's going to happen in that stream.
The thumbnail gives an idea what a game that I don't know yet might be about (you can easily differentiate FPS, RTS, Racing, RPG games from a small screenshot).
The current runtime gives an estiamtion how long a stream might still continue and if (depending on topic/content) it's still worth joining an already longrunning stream.

Please make the app usable again!!!

Adding "infinite scroll" to the twitch app is nonsensical.
The reason Tiktok so successfully implemented infinite scroll is that it is centered around watching 1 minute videos and then moving on. Viewer retention doesn't matter on Tiktok.
Twitch is all about viewer retention. You don't join a stream with the intention of watching 1 minute and then moving on to another stream. The changes made do not align at all with the way that people engage with twitch. The changes do not align with any conceivable way that people could engage with twitch.
If you wanted to implement this infinite scroll somewhere within the app, the only place it could possibly be useful is when you are watching clips.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

I will be adding Twitch to this Wikipedia entry if the changes are not reverted within 1 month.

Somehow the update has also broken twitch drops. I started using the mobile app more when Twitch made changes to the drops system because progress would pause or get hung up when I watched on pc. Now I'm getting zero progress trying to use either.

My phone has reported a significant decrease in screen time since the update - so I guess I should be thanking you! This is a good way to alienate your paying customers. Subscription canceled and app uninstalled. More than happy to return if you revert the changes.

I really don't like the new layout.

Before I could easily see who was online, what they were playing, and a nice preview of what they were playing.
Now I can't see that, I know we have the list with live channels, but I can't see the preview or even the title of the stream.

Even Thor from PirateSoftware hates it.

This is even worse than the Sonos debacle. Twitch could do everyone a favour if they'd just revert the changes, read through all suggestions and make it a really good app in the next months, even with a little bit of "TikTok" in it.

But all Twitch actually cares about is artificially inflating their (viewer) numbers and removing good features (remember Moments?)

No one asked for this layout . Cringe

It’s a terrible viewing experience, I get brought to THE SAME streamer every time I hit home. You idiots didn’t really think this one through.
Also now when I click on a story, nothing happens.

Pure garbage.

The new feed is simply terrible.

Even though auto play is turned off, the streams start playing automatically and even though they are muted, they pause my music running.

Additionally instead of having a normal list you can scroll through which streamers you follow is live, you have to either click the "you follow button", which still mutes the music, but has no streaming preview or streaming title, or scroll through to maybe hundreds of streams, which is especially annoying since it's not only streamers who you follow on that feed but additional random "suggestions".

If I wanted to check upon new "random streamers", then in the old feed there was a list for it. Now it's not "my feed" anymore, but just a random suggestion of streams live.

Hope twitch actually changes this again or gives more option to adjust the behavior of the feed at least (e.g. No auto play, only show following streams and make suggested streams another tab, like Clips or simply give the option to revert to the old feed)

There are several issues with the new Mobile app UI. The biggest of which is being unable to at a glace see what all your followed streamers are doing. Hiding them in a list to the side, without a preview is unhelpful. I understand you can see a preview by scrolling through the discovery feed, however its order is not consistent nor does it show all your followed before scrolling to streamers you aren't following.

I do like the scrolling idea for finding new streams, but it should be an entirely separate and removed tab, or even a module in a more static home page similar to the recommended section of the previous UI. Another annoyance is I cannot browse while watching a stream. The background play feature does not work when a preview plays over the stream you're currently watching.

However on top of being unhelpful for being faithful to current streamers, the new app is rife with bugs. The discovery feed starts lagging and stops showing new streamers after only two or three scrolls, on top of often buffering for a long time before showing the preview you intended to quickly let us see the stream you want us to discover, meaning users are more likely to look at the static image before scrolling than waiting for the preview. There's also an issue where the app suddenly switches which stream you are watching. Sometimes even playing both streams at the same time before swapping. This is annoying after already making my choice.

If I were to make a compromise between old app UI and new, I would take the current discovery tab, and make it a new tab in the old twitch mobile UI, and make it purely discover new streamers only not followers plus new streamers. This compromise seems most reasonable, assuming there are people who do prefer the new app design over the old. However hanging out in half a dozen english twitch streams with 1k + people I have seen no one defend the new UI, only complain.

I'm getting the update much later than most and absolutely hate it. Often I would check my mobile app to see who is live and what I want to watch before pulling up a stream on my Xbox but I will no longer doing that. The mobile experience is horrendous and needs to be changed back. Dan if you're reading this please don't turn twitch into TikTok and revert the mobile app back to it's former self.

I usually think the anger over a redesign is overblown and just a "you have to get used to it" type of deal, but not with this update. I understand why a TikTok-style feed is desirable in nowadays media, but plainly removing the option to have a separate following page where I can see my followed channels WITH THEIR TITLES & THUMBNAILS ordered in a way I want has to be the worst decision ever made.

I go on twitch to primarily watch the things I know I want to watch (and not to doomscroll to maybe be lucky find something interesting) and this redesign removes my ability to quickly identify if there is currently something on that I would like to watch, making me quickly lose interest and go to competitors instead.

My first time opening the new app was like this: "I can't see my following list, am I missing something? Ah, there is a small button for my following list. Wait, it's just a small popup list of the streamers that I follow WITHOUT a stream title so I don't even know what they're doing (JUST THE CATEGORY/GAME IS NOT ENOUGH), all the while some random stream I never want to watch is autoplaying in the background? This is atrocious, I'm gonna go on Youtube instead."

Speaking of which, on Youtube I actually sometimes do just scroll through Youtube shorts or similar content, but they still leave me with the option to just quickly see if my favorite content creators uploaded a new video that I might like to watch. So yes, you can have both, I don't even see why this should be up for debate.

I actually uninstalled the Twitch-App (and that's me being someone who's been watching twitch almost daily since 2011!) and will now just use my mobile browser if I want to watch in bed or on the go, but I will probably just default to Youtube on my phone anyways, at least until a usuable separate following page comes back.

Terrible app update. Don’t want a TikTok experience. Uninstalled the app until it’s reverted.

When will Twitch listen to its user base?

I have to be honest, since twitch added the tiktok app style as a streamer i got recently more followers and viewers. But I know the problem that not many people like it aswell. So we should come down to a good compromise.

Many people dont like the tiktok style as the twitch mobile app offers with its newest updates. I think you should really bring up the old style, but implement also a short based side. So if you open the app, it will just be like the old one before the update. Then you can swipe to the right to see to most popular shorts in your field of interest.

This update is clearly NOT for existing users. Existing users know what they want to watch, and they watch a lot of Twitch, so this nonsense slows down those people's ability to do that. This update is for new people who've never used Twitch before. And it's sad that they'll toss the existing communities' needs for a theoretical audience of short attention span TikTok users. "It's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for 'em."

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