Appletv
The new update - March 3 2023 - has so many downgrades! There are some issues that I was hoping to be addressed, but instead we got more problems.
1) Not being able not see more than the top 25 Live Followed Channels is a big problem. There are a lot of new and growing streamers I follow, support and moderate that are getting zero visibility with this new update.
2) Not being able to chat from the tv, and instead being sent to a QR code that connects to the mobile app stops the ability of people participating directly from their tv. I multiscreen watch lots of streamers at the same time, and this stops me from contributing to the one on the tv now, which is unfair.
3) The chat has become harder to read. The font is smaller and not as legible. ALSO, most chatters names now show up as just white, which makes following the chat much harder than it was in the past.
4) When someone donates bits, it shows up half the time as the emote and half the time as the lettered bit emote name (no emote image), which is silly.
5) We still can’t follow a raid, which was taken away during the last update, which is counterproductive to growing twitch and other channels. I figured that would be changed in the update, but it’s still gone.
6) The lack of animated emotes in the chat bar should have been addressed after all this time as well, but the chat visibility and functionality on the appletv app has slipped even farther behind as opposed to ahead to reflect the growth twitch has been making.
I’m sure there are other glitches I just haven’t come upon yet, but I’m sure I’m not alone with these complaints and suggestions.
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zonazach commented
The biggest issue (actually a defect) of all that I don’t think was stated above is around the menu options when watching a stream. Currently, the menu (go to <streamer_name> profile, settings, show/hide chat, etc) does not disappear at all when watching a stream full screen. It attempts to disappear but reappears a millisecond later causing a flickering effect. The only way around this is to show chat which doesn’t lend itself well to users who don’t have large TVs. The issue does seem to fix itself (without having chat open) after an ad is shown.
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Starfawkes commented
You hit most of my complaints, here are two more
1)You can no longer swipe away the bottom bar and need to wait for it to time out.
2)The app seems to load the entire front page at once which is very slow, the app used to load things in batches so I could browse my live following list while other content was loaded. -
DJ_All_Love commented
You covered it all! I also wish they would show more than the top 5 streamers when you use the raid shortcut as a streamer. Not related to the app but it’s obvious all they care about is supporting the larger streamers.
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ReadySteadyCookie commented
The Android app is just as bad, across all 3 of my devices, so definitely not a fault on my end. Twitch developers, please fully test your programming and fix everything that's been broken. Most Twitch users I know aren't sat watching on their PCs, they're mobile or TV viewers.