Suggestions to improve Twitch mobile/home feed
From reading here, the new Home feed view certainly has evoked some negative feelings. I don't dislike the change, although there are certainly some things that don't work well about it and I wanted to offer some constructive suggestions:
The home feed should start muted, and provide the option to turn sound on. It is annoying when watching another stream, and dragging to PiP starts playing the stream from the home feed instead
Rather than hitting the heart button to see the list of followed channels, I suggest that swiping left to right bring the flyout in. I also suggest this also be available with the same left to right swipe when watching a channel.
There have been times after the new updates where the iOS app will just freeze - can't scroll chat, can't minimize the playing stream, can't tap to type a chat message. Only option is to kill the app and reopen.
Regarding the home feed itself, I would prefer there to be two different view - one for ONLY the channels I follows (the default) and one for suggested channels to discover. I don't like them intermingled in the same feed. Maybe provide that as part of the tabs within the home feed? "Live" <-> "Discover" <-> "Clips"