https://twitter.com/thundergod97/status/1038248476948213760 my twitter thread about this.

1. Option to always send an email (obviously not everyone wants this so it should be an OPTION. I use email notifications as a history of when people have gone live. I also get push notifications of emails from that email address on my phone, so I can tell when people have gone live.




2. Base it actually on ACTIVITY. If I have browser windows at home open to twitch that does not mean I am ACTIVE on twitch. You should be able to tell when I'm active because I'm chatting or I'm clicking around the site. If I'm using the app, send notifications there. If I'm using the site, send notifications there. If I'm not using anything....revert to email (but also see #1).

It just needs to be smarter. Since you implemented it the notifications have only either been going to my browser window at home, or my phone via the app. I'm not active in those 24 hours a day. I have received ZERO notifications in my email since you turned "smart" notifications on.

I would like to have an option that whenever you are live, and you change the category of what you are currently streaming, that new "go live" notifications (push, email, etc.) are sent out to followers. Even if it takes several minutes for these notifications to go out, it would be beneficial. There are times when a certain game (or category) is being streamed that followers might not have an interest in watching, but should you change to a game (or category) that they might be interested in watching while you are already live, having new notifications being sent out that you are live and are streaming "X" could be helpful.

Streamer schedules vary widely, and sometimes channels we enjoy watching tell us they're going live at inopportune times. We could be in an important meeting, or we could be trying to sleep. Sometimes, we're just not in the mood to receive notifications from Twitch on our phones. I'd like to see some further customization in channel notifications, so we can, both per channel and at-large, tell Twitch which days of the week, or which times of day to avoid sending us notifications, so we can maintain those periods when we need to focus on something else without sacrificing our ability to know when our favorite streamer is going live during the time we can watch.

I was hoping to see notifications for clips implemented for both broadcasters and editors, possibly moderators.

I know that viewers of all calibers like to create clips, but I think that it would allow me, as a moderator and an editor, to be able to optimize my job if there were notifications whenever clips were created and by whom, in conjunction with possible modified editors functions that happen in the future. Some people like to create clips, download them, and then delete the clips, and it feels like there is no recourse against those kinds of clippers, especially if we are unaware that such clips were ever made in the first place.

My idea would need to be an option that streamers can turn on and off; basically when you get the notification on your phone that a streamer went live one of the options is 'Keep Me Updated on This Stream'. What this option would do is periodically send a text update (via notifications, text being the format not the means of communication) of what is going on in the stream. The streamer would likely need a moderator of sorts to actually fill out the data and then the service itself sends the update at an interval chosen by the streamer (that way it doesn't get too annoying and people know what they're signing up for). While this could be very simple to setup on phones I'm not sure how practical it would be for desktops/laptops.

The purpose of this idea is for those who are busy whether at work or school still want to be up-to-date on what their favorite streamer is doing, especially if streams often connect to previous ones. Another reason that personally applies to me is you could tell when a stream ends (that would be the final notification from the stream after hitting this option). I watch a few streamers in a different time zone and therefore have school sometimes during their stream times. If they stream for more than about 2 hrs though I usually have time to make it to the end of their stream. Instead of having to guess if its still going or not when I'm finally available to watch simply knowing 'I've been notified that it's finished' or 'no notification, it's still going!' would be very handy!