The password system in twitch has me put beyond disbelief. I have truly never experienced a more horrific security protocol; it is almost comparable to the password game, which was created as a joke. I would like to suggest some changes.

1. scrap the existing system, unfixable.
2. make a three character minimum; this is all that is necessary for actual security increase. People who take their privacy seriously will act accordingly.
3. Allow special characters. It is genuinely baffling that as a company you made the conscious decision to decrease the amount of usable characters in a password.
4. Get rid of whatever AI is used to detect "strong passwords." It has been proven that these restrictions decrease security due to human patterns.
5. On the password creation screen, provide a link to a page such as cisa.gov/news-events/news/choosing-and-protecting-passwords to give those who are under-informed an idea of how to make their password stronger if they so wish.