So there is already a request of Similar nature that got rejected. I believe it was because of the wording in their request. So I had this idea.

The TLDR of it is that there should be a setting that allows you to enable or disable watching a Stream on one or 2 Monitors. On one Monitor you watch the Game or Whatever is happening and on the other, you have the Facecam of the given Streamer. I believe this would make for a better watching experience overall. Since most Streamers have good Facecams anyways it's a shame that that high-quality isn't getting used that much, since most streamers have to make their webcam really tiny if they wanna make a gaming stream watchable without obstructing too much of what is happening.
That's also another benefit to that feature. As long as you have 2 Monitors there will never be a point in which the Streamer blocks important or interesting information in-game.

Another Idea I had was that you could run a program that searches for Movement/Faces in the dedicated Facecam area. If the program detects no movement/faces for a given amount of time because the Streamer is away the Viewer would automatically exit full-screen mode and have Chat Pop up. I believe that would make the chatting experience, especially for newer watchers a lot more interactive/easier to participate in.

I am unsure how exactly these features would be implemented and if it would cost a lot of resources/change of the infrastructure to bring this to life.

However, I would still like to hear your thoughts on those Ideas.

Basically the idea is top allow the streamer to upload one long video or several short videos that would be used as a placeholder when the streamer is having connection issues. That way the awkward silence for when their connection falters and the lame "Stream Having Issues" could be replaced with actual content to keep viewers around while they wait for the issues to stop.

Additionally, I'd propose so:
Partners would get a few more long videos for "Stream Issues" placeholder, as well as considerably more short videos.

Said videos must NOT be set as "Subscriber Only".

Their visibility within the list could be only Public or Unlisted (anyone with a link can see it, but won't show in the Videos list)

hello my name is nicolas i'm 15 years old i'm from brazil and i came to give a suggestion, i follow many streamers who play fps games and always had the problem of ghosting: the person who is on the opposing team can know where you are from your live, delay is a tool that makes it impossible to communicate well with the chat, so I came to give a suggestion: you could add, make a function with which the streamer could block a certain person from seeing your screen, because normally the person's nickname in the game is the same as in the twich.

Currently, the only option for transcoding regardless of a streamer's own setup, is to pray you're lucky.

This harms a ton of smaller streamers, viewers, and Twitch Profits alike. It forces streamers to prioritise lower quality, which wards off viewers in more economically sound positions in order to get the viewers required to get noticed by the clearly viewer driven promotion algorithm. This is highly self-contradicting, leading to the only chance for twitch to maximise profit being streamers downprioritising the users that would be the most likely to contribute large amounts.

Opensourcing already existing transcoding service together with something like OBS Studio would be a no-brainer in that regard, and also save the potential processing cost of transcoding serverside. It would increase network load, but that could be easily mitigated, especially if it gives more users incentive to contribute to streams.

On the event of a Stream restarting or even needing to switch OBS settings, it’d be nice to be able to let Twitch know that “this stream is part of the previous one that ended (within a certain amount of time) ago.” I think twitch has an automatic version of this, but in the oddball case of it marking two back to back streams as separate, it’d be nice to merge them.
Why? - During stream fails you don’t have to worry about starting a new “record” on your channel; Viewers of VODS won’t have to switch; Stream Schedule Page will not display multiple streams (unless a giant gap between them is present, of course); More power to the steamer in general!