The new redesign has brought some improvements to the mobile app, especially around the clips section and the experience there. However there have been some noticeable regressions around accessing and browsing your followed channels that I think need some work to at least return to feature parity with the old app.

First and most important, there is no way to see your followed channels with thumbnails and titles anymore. You have to either scroll for way too long to find the channels you want to check or you have to manually tap each one and see what they're doing. There is no way to do it at a glance. This is problem because the way I and most people use Twitch is as a combination of creator and content. When multiple creators I enjoy are live I'll tap the one doing the more interesting content to me. If two World of Warcraft streamers are live I'll probably watch the one raiding vs the one just leveling, but currently I have no way of knowing which is which. Just the category is not nearly enough as it's too broad and frequently not correctly updated. Being able to see content thumbnail and title is critically important.

And please re-add the toggle that lets me sort the live followed channel list, by viewercount preferably or alphabetical or by follow date even, just in some way that things are always in the same place. The current "suggested" sorting feels random and never puts what I've opened the app for on top. I would rather have a static, consistent, order than some algorithm guessing at what I'm looking for.

Second, I understand the scrolling wall is meant to promote creators you wouldn't click on otherwise by presenting them front and center in a view that already has your attention. But this has presented a problem, it has become frustrating to browse the home feed because I'm just not interested in most of the content on it. I understand the algorithm can learn and improve but ultimately I want to see the streamers I follow first and foremost and having recommended streamers mixed into that makes me want to avoid scrolling it at all as it's become frustrating to find the content I am actually looking for and I've found myself closing the app quickly..

I think a reasonable middle ground is to add a "discover" view alongside "home" and "clips" that achieves this- a mix of followed channels and suggested ones that I can scroll through when I'm looking for something to watch without anything in mind. Change the current home to just be followed channels (preferably in a more compact format with titles and thumbnails) so I can quickly access the content I opened the app for without the frustration.

I think this would be a good replacement for the following slide out generally, having it in the current button is too space limited and I sometimes miss the button and am again frustrated the app is not doing what it feels like it should be. A button tab or a feed I can swipe to would be so so much easier to use.

Third, add a vods button at the bottom or SOMEWHERE. My favorite thing about the mobile app was how easy it made it to watch vods. I could easily catch up on streams I couldn't watch all of or ones I missed and it conveniently saved my spot and everything. It was easy to spend time on Twitch even when I couldn't find live content I wanted to watch because there was almost always VOD content I wanted to watch, to the point that I rarely visited YouTube. Now I find myself searching "<channel> vods" on YouTube because it's easier to do that than dig to them in the app. A simple button on the bottom maybe next to browse would bring me back so quickly.

Finally, a "dislike" button on content in feeds would be incredibly beneficial to curating them. It doesn't need to be a publicly viewable metric about how good or bad a stream is, just a way to guide the algorithm about what you want to see less often without completely blocking it with the "do not show me this content" option.

The new clips feed is a great improvement to a feature that felt like an afterthought before and I'm glad to see it getting some love but please restore the basic functionality that's been lost in the transition. It's extremely frustrating to not be able to easily use the app anymore and more often than not I just close it a few seconds after opening it now.