Instead of having disruptive and user experience unfriendly pre-roll and midroll ads automatically play for streamers, with their only alternative being still disrupting their own content by playing ads manually to turn off preroll ads for a period of time, allow streamers and content creators to fill in an amazon blacksmith list of recommended purchases for the viewers. Viewers are a lot more likely to take the list seriously vs a 10-15 second ad by a big corporation, and is more valuable to all parties involved. Twitch/amazon could even suggest items for the viewer to possibly add to the list to improve it, or, although slightly worse, include "paid ad content" within the list itself that people have to click to view and will actively be browsing. Move the video ads to the top right corner if you still want to play them, but please stop disrupting the streamers content with the ads and hurting stream discoverability with ads, it totally kills raids. A blacksmith list will do infinitely better than any premade video ad, while being infinitely less disruptive and negatively impactful to the user experience.

Secret labs twitch chairs paired with corsair or razers chroma/rgb suites and incorporated in,

I'm working on a VR extension for the index that doesnt suck, but im to busy this week getting my behindhacked right now, and for the last 3days.

Also, Can we as a community (most specifically (don't forget leaf lights or nano's or what have you - and a felix the cat / nyan cat twitch ticking tail rainbow clock would be the "cats meow" or a "Yuumi"....cause I looooooooovvveeee Yuumi" literally the most)

Collectivey...we need to revive Tron and reimagine it as an immersive VR experience MMO and I hope that catches somebodies attention, because if the world ends we haven't had that experience as gamers and twitchers...well, I'm and atheist but I'm pretty sure there's a special **** for us.

Back to unhacking EVERYTHING.

See you guys in a week.

I feel that a few of features that are new, or in testing, on Twitch had a dedicated place on the page to run instead obstructing streams , or flashing up in chat.

Having a small area (maybe the top 1/4 of the chat area on desktop) to host these features wouldn't be that intrusive, and could be used as a place to display small ads for non-subs, and maybe the area could be used for the streamer to host custom apps (like overlays) for subscribers.

I'm a huge fan of consistency, so having an area like that to test new features without disrupting the viewing experience (even if it does show ads most of the time) is a huge.

Turbo, although it supports streamers, does not offer many enticing incentives outside of an ad-free experience. A lot of people appear to get far more enjoyment out of subscribing to channels as it allows them to feel like they're a part of the community.

Prime was a nice solution, it used to have ad-free viewing, but it got ditched despite Prime costing more than Turbo. I believe that should be brought back.

Although I'm more of a fan of the idea of allowing people with multiple concurrent subscriptions offering an ad-free experience sitewide. This offers the chance to more directly support smaller creators, while at the same time not stunting their growth because nobody wants to watch ad breaks to check out streamers they've never watched (the current system). I picked the number 5 or more, because at that point Twitch is getting $12.50 a month, more than the cost of Turbo -- which itself costs more than other streaming platforms such as Hulu, Disney+, etc.

Ad timing (when in a broadcast an ad is shown, plus for how long or for how many ads) is a largely "invisible" skill in traditional media, but an important one for managing the flow of content delivery that almost no streamers have. Twitch broadcasters lack dedicated producers for this purpose, and the current algorithms that automatically deliver ads account for at most the time since the last ads a user watched. This leads to ad delivery that often interrupts streams very badly.
Twitch should develop more sophisticated algorithms that deliver ads at the least intrusive moments in streams. For example, someone playing rounds of a PVP game -> showing ads between rounds. Someone doing short/reset heavy speedruns -> show ads after 3 quick resets or 1 long one. A just chatting stream -> follow lulls in conversation.
Teach a sample of streamers the kind of producer skills that help them spot when an ad would be effective, follow up on the data of them showing those ads. Start sampling tags on the stream and the categories and information like compressed screenshots of the screen before and after an ad. Is there a prediction based on screenshots and streamer volume/speech that can tell you when chat is going to be very engaged? Use that as training data and start making a more sophisticated algorithm. That way you can avoid dropping an ad on top of what should be the highest engagement content, and put in the ads in the lulls and "victory fuzz" moments.

I've noticed when some ads play they take over the screen and the stream is moved to be above the chat until the ad ends. I think this should be reversed. Ads should take up that space above chat and then disappear; or, perhaps, they appear in the corner of the stream. If this were done, of course, ads would likely have be silent -- and I doubt any user would be against that.
Whatever the case, ads taking up the entirety of a livestream is just not acceptable and advertisers/Twitch need to figure out a better way to have ads without them being absolutely intrusive on the experience. Imagine you go to a live event and then for 10-30 seconds, your entire vision is blocked out: you can't see or hear anyone/anything except the ad. That's what it's tantamount to.