I did not want to be part of the Twitch Cheering Experiment. I am a small streamer and rely heavily on my stream alerts gimmicks to fund raise. The Cheering Experiment has massively reduced my income and the platform takes a larger cut and it doesn't even do anything cool when someone donates.

Twitch sent a stealthy email on the 20th and only gave us til the 24th to opt out but I only found out yesterday. I can safely say I don't want to be part of the experiment and would like to opt out immediately. There should be a button to opt out. I can't even get support to manually remove me.

Really don't like the short notice and not being able to opt out.

I would love to see a feature where viewers can Battle with Bits! basically it could be a bit brawl where multiple people go in and more than 1 get the emote or 1v1 bit battle. Basically battling with 1 bit and whoever stops or does not respond the other person received the Channel Specific Emote or Twitch Specific Emote.

A new challenger can then challenge the Bit Battle Winner in order to then gain that Channel Specific Emote. This would increase chances of Hype Trains and be fun to see viewers battling for that emote. I believe it would be cool to see it be something similar to a large Star infront of the users name until another challenger approaches.

There are games within certain niches (e.g. the RPG Maker horror community) with more restrictive licenses on earning money from broadcasts of them than many other games. I'd like the ability to disable and re-enable bits (either whenever the streamer feels or on a per-stream basis) to allow for streaming these games without running the risk of unintentionally breaking their content guidelines by receiving a donation that I have no control over.

YouTube's streaming service offers the ability to freely disable their Super Chats and Super Stickers monetisation, making accidentally breaking usage guidelines in this way much less likely. Currently the only similar alternative I have on Twitch is to set my Bits minimum donation as high as it can go (10000 Bits). This is fine for most streamers, including myself, but it is not a 100% secure system for handling this issue. A toggle would help streamers stream more games on Twitch while remaining in line with the wishes of their creators.

As far as I know there is no way to determine whether a channel has bits rewards emotes (unique and permanent emotes unlocked by spending 1K bits, 5K bits, 10K bits, etc. in that channel) unless the owner or someone with the emote uses it in chat. It apparently can't be looked up in the bits menu for the channel or anywhere else.

I'm not referring to cheer emotes, or to custom bit badges for certain levels that appear next to your username when in that channel, but to permanent emotes that can be used anywhere on Twitch, even if you don't subscribe to the channel in question. The emotes are tied to bits spent, not to subscriber status.

Is there a way to know whether a channel has bits rewards emotes without waiting for them to be used or asking the owner of the channel? It would be very useful for those of us who follow dozens of channels but aren't sure which of them have them and which don't have them. Thanks!

In "Bits Acceptable Use Policy / Now the Don’ts that constitute violations of this policy:" we can see that it is included in don*ts "graphic design services". I think this is totally wrong. Why I am thinking that? 1st you (Twitch) loosing a large amount of money because of that and there is nothing wrong with offering designer services in exchange for bits. You like it or not, bits are some kind of currency and streamers using it for all kind of things on their live streams. If you really want to push this "Now the Don’ts that constitute violations of this policy:" policy in a wide meaning you will have to ban half of a twitch streamers. In a nut shell bits only can be used to be gifted to streamer without asking anything in return from streamer and I agree with that because that mean "no return back when u make a gift in bits" ,,, but, someone gifted me some amount of bits and because I want to thank him on some way I would make some graphic design for his twitch,,, is that against Bits ToS? You see, there is nothing wrong with that. There is no exchange, there is only good will between us. Of course you can turn that around and say that this was some kind of payment. Well, maybe you dont know but everything is some kind of payment.
2nd. If you remove "graphic design services" you will get a lot of designers from other platforms which are made for that kind of services. What I am offering on my Twitch channel? Someone who need some graphic design can watch me working on that what he/she need (graphic design). This is excellent! Because he/she can make corrections till I working and whole job will take less time than if I doing it on some other site dedicated to graphic designers and selling their services. You see where I am going and why twitch is way better place to sell graphic designs than other sites on web?
In short ...
By removing "graphic design services" you will get a lot more transfers/use of bits, which is probably what you want from users to do. Designers and people who use designers services will not be scared of ban on twitch. You will get a ton of designers from other web pages who will like to offer their services on twitch because on twitch is way way easier to do graphic design stuff for wide variety of customers just because customers can interact with designer in a process of design which is base of good, quick and satisfied customer in a graphic designers world.
OK, I hope you got it on a right way.

Je ne savais pas où insérer cette idée mais je pensais qu'il serait judicieux d'ajouter un programme de fidélité permettant de récompenser les personnes qui soutiennent régulièrement.

Ainsi, si un téléspectateur à dépensé une certaine somme d'argent durant le mois, il pourrait se voir attribuer une récompense pour sa fidélité.

Par exemple différents seuils seraient mis en place pour gagner des récompenses :

Pour 50 € dépensés sur Twitch par mois, 400 bits seraient offerts

Pour 75 € dépensés sur Twitch par mois, 550 bits seraient offerts

Pour 100 € dépensés ou + sur Twitch par mois, 800 bits seraient offerts

Les récompense seraient envoyées à la fin du mois pour permettre de déterminer à quelle échelle vous êtes situés en fonction de vos contributions .

Il serait aussi intéressant de mettre en place une série de contributions consécutives ,

Par exemple, si une personne dépense 50 €

• 200 bits supplémentaires seraient ajoutés pour une série de 3 mois consécutifs
• 500 bits pour une durée de 6 mois
• 1000 bits pour une durée de 12 mois

Et aussi, concernant le programme de fidélité, ajouter une récompense pour la date d'anniversaire, qui serait plus avantageuse en fonction de la contribution à travers les chaînes tout au long de l'année (déterminé avec des niveaux pour avoir un ordre d'idée de la valeur de la récompense possible à obtenir)

• Offrir un abonnement de niveau 1, 2 ou 3 sur le streamer de votre choix

• Offrir entre 100 et 1000 bits

Ces idées permettraient donc de récompenser un minimum celles qui contribuent à rendre la vie meilleure d'un streamer, ainsi qu'à l'activité de l'entreprise Twitch.

I just purchased 1500 bits ($15 to streamer) for $19.95 -- a $4.95 markup. This made me think about the amount of bit donations vs. PayPal donations I've seen over the years, and the fees associated with PayPal are much more attractive.

Bits however are very interactive and entertaining. The novelty of getting a bit badge and having your cheer posted at the top of the chat is likely a reason why people choose to pay the premium. That being said, for every person that buys bits, the other person donates on PayPal because its cheaper. If Twitch wants to maximize bit revenue, they need to lower the margin from ~20% to as low as 5-6%. For comparison, PayPal charges 3.6%. I would happily pay double the premium for the novelty and enjoyment of bits over paypal if it wasn't so ridiculously marked up.

Many users like to work towards a badge goal when gifting subs and bits. Total subs gifted in a channel is already tracked each time someone gifts a sub, which allows the user to understand how close they are to the next sub badge (i.e. "PersonA has gifted a sub to PersonB. PersonA has gifted a total of 975 subs in the channel" -> now they know if they gift 25 more subs, they will get the 1K subs badge). I'm proposing something similar for bits, either publicly or locally so that the user can see their total bits contributed in a channel and continue to work towards their next badge.