Revert new app changes
Please revert these new changes made to the app. I can’t use the app properly anymore. When I open twitch I want to see my follow list, who’s on and what they are streaming, not some random stream that starts playing.
Also where did the “continue watching” list go? I can’t see it anywhere. Do I actually have to go through profiles and search through vods and try to remember which specific vid I was watching?
Wow! These new changes are a nightmare, please revert to the original format before I delete the app.
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Inflatableshoes commented
They're horrible. I did try. But this is ridiculous.
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わかのじ commented
以前の形式のtwitchは大好きだったのに、新しいバージョンはアプリを開くたびにストレスが溜まるのであまり観なくなった。絶対に元に戻して欲しい。なぜいちいちフォローリストを開かなければならないのか、なぜ指定してもない配信がアプリを開いた途端に流れるのか、なぜアプリ内でやりたいこと全てが1ステップずつめんどくさくなったのか。とにかくめんどくさい。
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velh666 commented
The new layout is horrible… horrible, horrible, horrible. Please roll back the changes or fix it. If I open the app, I want to see my followed channels, not some random channel. Whoever decided that Twitch is supposed to clone TikTok needs to be fired immediately.
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TelemachusD commented
It's so actively bad I uninstalled and found an APK from before this redesign.
With auto play off (and I'm never turning that garbage on), the app by default opens to a dead page with no content. I click a tiny button to see far less information about my followed streams than was shown before. Never updating this again unless it's reverted.
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KrivUK commented
The redesign is awful. It has made finding things I like impossible. Revert to the old design please.
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givadotlikeaperiod commented
Why on earth would you remove continue watching, are we just supposed to remember where we left off and fast forward to that point, jot down time frames, it’s ludicrous
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ttayn commented
Brain rot twitch version.
I’m not on Tiktok, what a bad design.
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corbygray528 commented
I don't know how actively the twitch mobile app developers are watching this thread, but since I can't find a bug report area anywhere in the app...
I experienced today my mobile app switching from one channel to another on its own, while I was in chat only mode... Just abruptly I was in a totally different chat. Had I not been looking at it at the moment it would be VERY easy for me to start typing in it and send a message thinking I was in the one I actually joined. I assume it's related to the same bug that causes the streams to randomly change, but I'm worried to allow my twitch app to update anyway because I'm afraid you'll remove the old layout from tablet view, which is currently the only way it's tolerable.
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makeoneupplease2 commented
Rip, the deleting and re-installing trick no longer works on iPhone. End of an era
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poppy_pire commented
Please reverse this change, I really dislike it automatically starting a stream.
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phantimganon commented
GIVE ME BACK MY "CONTINUE WATCHING." JESUS.
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eetoh_ commented
New app sucks. Y’all got me watching lives on YT with how unfun Twitch app is now
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treofspades commented
It’s legitimately perplexing how this garbage still hasn’t been reverted and instead they’re just slowly trickling in adding back the dozens of pieces of useful functionality they unceremoniously deleted for no reason. Absolutely baffling and an indictment of the company that no one was publicly fired over this decision.
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Merc_Fett commented
This hasn’t grown on me and still sucks
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Bekkaa_Annee commented
I agree, the new changes make it more difficult to navigate to and watch streams from channels I already follow. I understand wanting to follow the trend set by Tiktok….. but if I wanted a Tiktok style feed I would be on the Tiktok app not the Twitch app!! I much preferred having a static landing page that provided more information, not less.
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0xWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW commented
I've heard Frosty is a decent app if you just want to watch the streamers you follow and chat using third party emotes
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iBlank commented
Zach Bussey tweeted a recent video of dan talking about new users vs core/hardcore users:
https://x.com/zachbussey/status/1829993399644274923
https://x.com/zachbussey/status/1829994383586050404
text version of vid1 omitting the ums and uhs:
"It's clear when we look at sentiment and other things, that for our casual and intermittent users, they actually- things tend to be more positive. They're browsing more, they're finding more, and also their sentiment towards the app is different. It's our kind of core and hardcore users that, which is the bread and butter of twitch, okay, they don't like it. I don't think it's just cause change is hard, okay, change is hard, okay. I do think we missed a number of things, okay. I think the mock that I've seen now it'll take a little while to test and get out, that changes the following as opposed to being a list like this into a screen with thumbnails. We have a mock that- i think that will satiate a lot of peoples concerns"
TLDR of vid 2: keep on attracting younger viewers that grow up on tiktok (8-12 even though they shouldn't be)
There might actually be hope. Just give users the choice of which page they want to see. The users who actually want to see the feed will default to that if they want, and the rest of us will default to a page of who we follow that we can sort, show a thumbnail or even preview, category, and title. NOT in feed format
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MONK_DUCK commented
Awful ui design and horrible social media feed, why make it so the youtube app is now better and more pleasant to use than twitch.
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casino_3201 commented
Cancelling my sub after this latest layout update. Will resub if ever reverted at least to the most previous version.
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GrondagTheBarbarian commented
I'm cancelling all my paid subs. Twitch's asinine refusal to even acknowledge the problems with the new design show that they aren't going to fix it.
I watch twitch on mobile - frequently on VOD - and at this point I find myself dreading the experience. I'm not paying for something that sucks this bad, especially when the company so clearly shows us they don't care.