[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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stayne__ commented
Why do i need these useless stories, how do i delete them?
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jozath12 commented
The stories tab took over my sidebar. Now it only shows the Stories tab at the top and nothing else.
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uchihx commented
the fact this is forced upon us without an option to disable it is disgusting. It's 2024 and twitch is owned by one of the biggest companies in the world, user experience should be prioritized much higher.
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Susumu666 commented
As a viewer who follows a number of streams that now have stories enabled, can an enhancement be added where after a story is reviewed by a user to have the on screen notification of the same be suppressed?
Also a way to open stories in a new tab?At present (as I don't spend much time on the front page) I see story notifications in the upper left above followed streamers, and to view I need to leave the channel I am in watch, and then it returns me to the stream I was in. It feels a bit off to do it that way, and to not have that notification area ever clear out has me always thinking that there are new stories to view as well.
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ZachBussey @ TOS.gg commented
We should be able to dismiss or 'mark all as seen' on Desktop.
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Brezitrex commented
Not being able to hide these is terrible.
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Raeshaz commented
I don't want to see stories at all. Please add a way to disable them.
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rd_agri commented
Gracias por ser uno
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TickleTheCohh commented
Wasting everyone's time by taking up screen real estate with Stories that can't be hidden. DUMBEST waste of time I've seen in awhile.
For those that want to hide this garbage. IF you have Ublock Origin, just make a custom block for it with the eyedrop Element Picker, so you can block this garbage off our screens.
Literally, trying to drive your own audiences off your platform.
I ended up unfollowing any streamer that posted a story till I figured a way to hide/block their damned stories.
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KreativePixie commented
You have NOT listened to those of us that want a way to remove stories and now they are also accessible on PC. This is not acceptable. We have been unfollowing and leaving streamers that have been using stories since last year when you introduced it at twitch con and now you have changed the UI so that it moves your followed and subbed list below the stories to indicate that this is where you want the future of Twitch to go, and be like TikTok and IG. If THIS was the reason for the dollar increase to subs, then good luck you will lose a lot of people.
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skronak commented
let us hide stories,
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GroundhogOZ commented
Give us at least the option to hide this absolute trash-feature (in the app and on browser).
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Varileztra__ commented
GO AWAY. I don't want to watch fcking shorts. I don't watch tiktok, i don't engage with shorts on yt, AND I MOST CERTAINLY DONT WANT TO WATCH THEM ON THE WEBSITE I GO TO TO WATCH LIVESTREAMS.
L I V E S T R E A M S .
Ever since i just got the update, all i can see is this fcking thing ontop of my followinglist on the side and it's so incredibly ANNOYING.
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Rastem88 commented
The new change to the follow page in the desktop browser ui takes up to much space and slows down the user getting to the streamers they are here for. There is also no explanation of what the profile pictures are for. I thought it meant certain streamers were online until I dug deeper into the twitch blog, which most users will not bother with.
Sadly, whoever pushed this ui change does not understand that a user interface should be self explanatory and should not get in the way of the user's intended use of the website.
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ladulce311 commented
Es molesto ahora con las historias, estaba mucho mejor antes ¿Por qué hacer un nuevo tiktok? no era ni es necesario. ni siquiera esta una opción para ocultar las historias que estas ocupan la MAYOR parte de la pantalla de mi dispositivo móvil.
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Patters2 commented
Not more cluttered BS that we can't turn off *AGAIN*.
Twitch, not sure why you need to hear this but apparently you do, you're NOT going to be the next instagram, you're NOT going to be the next facebook, you're NOT going to be the next discord announcement channel, please stop putting energy into pointlessly redundant **** and just focus on what you do good already, video streaming and live chat. That's it, that's all we want from you. -
Meerkat101 commented
Where is the setting to disable/hide the stories?
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bunnyhero commented
please let me hide the stories button on the sidebar in the browser. i don't use stories, don't need stories, don't want stories.
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TarotCard2 commented
I don’t understand the need for this, Social media already exists. Like, All the streamers I follow use discord or bluesky or twitter to do Exactly what the stories does, its a useless addition that takes up space in an already cluttered and incomprehensible App update.
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MrSwoon commented
I just had to unfollow someone who posted a story, and only because that made stories take up too much of my screen real estate. If you're not going to let me hide stories, then I guess I have to stop following people who use them.