There are currently whispers that Twitch is planning to remove the rerun feature. I can provide a reasonable case why this feature should remain. I'm sure there are many communities who utilise this feature to come together and watch broadcasts outside of their time-zone, and have seen as much from twitter. I, and many others, view reruns for a different reason. We're a part of Reckful's community, many in our community only interact in chat during the reruns his Editors put on for us from time to time.

Not only do these reruns facilitate us to remember and celebrate the life of Byron, they also help us stay together as a grieving community and look out for one another. I can't tell you how many late night chats I've had, helping, sharing moments, and laughing with other chatters in Reckful's community during Reruns. I've even gotten to meet a few IRL.

I firmly believe getting rid of this feature kills our community, and forgets about one of the most important streamers the platform has had. Even as I write this, I'm watching and chatting in a Rerun of an old Hearthstone VOD.
Please keep Reruns alive!

Streamers love when viewers create clips, because it makes it easy to share small stream highlights without having to look through their entire VOD later. These clips are extremely valuable for streamer growth, and it'd be great to reward viewers for creating great clips!

Also it should be up to the streamer to choose which clips get rewarded, not just every clip.

Moments are halfway there, but those can only be created live by either the streamer or their mods, which only rewards viewers for being there rather than for creating clips.

In addition to this, there are some streamers who have a !clip command for viewers to create quick clips via a bot, but those clips are attributed to just the bot. If there was an additional parameter for the API to attached a user ID to it, so that it could be attributed to the user who used !clip, that'd be amazing! And it could show something like Clipped by [User] using [ClipBot].

Alternatively to that, a Quick Clip button built into Twitch that would do the same thing as a !clip command would be great, so that viewers can create a clip without having to leave the stream to set up the clip title and duration. Quick Clip could also make it easy for mobile viewers to make clips!

There are many people who'd be interested in this, as proven by this tweet: https://twitter.com/imzaytri/status/1495458845098872833

I request that the 100 collection limit be removed or raised.

A channel can have an infinite amount of videos uploaded / highlighted / clipped, but can only organise them into 100 playlists. Once you've played 100+ games, you're out of luck.

For variety streamers who play many different games and would like their content to be accessible and organised, this limit has forced alternative options (like off-site re-uploading / messy collection systems).

I would like to keep my community ON Twitch, and I would like ALL content that I've made remain in one place, organised, rather than providing various links to different sites.

Recently I lost at a minimum 58 clips from my channel due to the person who created them no longer being part of my community. This included my most popular clip of all time and many other amazing funny moments.

The reason I am mentioning that is to add context for the biggest flaw in the clip creation system. There is no way to recover these at all so these memories are just gone forever.

My susgestion is to change how this works. Take away people's ability to delete clips that they created for another channel either all together or after X time they cannot delete the clip. Nobody should have power or control over the creators content which this gives. This person had full control over my clips they created for me and therefore my content. I should not have to download every clip of mine just to keep them safe, they should be safe on Twitch. The content creator should have full ownership of any clips made of their channel.

There are some inherent severe bugs when it comes to Twitch collections that should get priority to be fixed. I think the reason very few streamers use this feature is because of how broken it is.

⠀1. The default internal links to collections shows an error.

"Sorry. Unless you’ve got a time machine, that content is unavailable." error page which then redirects you to the first video of the collection. Changing the structure of the URL makes this not so, which makes me think its an old oversight/workaround that can easily be repaired.

Examples how to replicate:
Shows error: https://www.twitch.tv/collections/OIpBrhiazhakWA?filter=collections
Does not show error: https://www.twitch.tv/cragsand/collection/OIpBrhiazhakWA

⠀2. If the first video in a collection is missing, unpublished or broken, none of the videos in the collection will play.

⠀3. Having more than 99 videos in one collection will not show the 100th video in the user interface, it caps off and is not clickable.

Progressing to the 100th or 101th video does work if you fast forward to the end of the VOD and allows the page to progress automatically. This is also an oversight in the user interface.

Example of a collection with 100 videos in it: https://www.twitch.tv/collections/nkGV9BqNYhaAow

Video showing the bug: https://i.imgur.com/gTtXGSL.mp4

⠀4. Twitch channels with over 100 collections can't save any more.

I haven't reached that level yet for any of the channels I help as an editor for, but will eventually. This also has a uservoice report here:

https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/923368-video-features/suggestions/43874217-remove-update-collection-limit

Thank you developers!
Best Regards
Crag

With larger international audiences, you're likely going to have some people relying on VODs due to time differences or work/life commitments.

I envision a VOD feature where you can see the VOD player and if you click a button you can see bubbles along the progress bar or a graphic which if you click on brings you to other users watching. I imagine you could have two columns or maybe an interspersed chat so that users can decide what they see.
The benefit is that people can enjoy watching VODs with others in sync. Sense of community.

Not sure if its a niche thing but hey, came to mind whilst watching a VOD.

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.

Problem: When you are watching the VOD and your internet gets disconnected (error #2000) the VOD player gives you a button "Click here to reload the player"
(note: the player has to finish playing the buffered content before throwing the error)

Expected result: after establishing internet connection user is pressing the button and continues watching the VOD in the same spot (or at least close to) where he lost connection
Actual result: after establishing internet connection user is pressing the button and VOD starts playing from the beginning.

This gets extremely annoying when you watch 10 hour VODs and have no clue at which point it got reset.

Currently, the Highlight feature is just the Clip feature without a length limit, which can lead to some lackluster highlights - especially in regards to highlights featuring multiple segments of a stream or even an entire stream. That said, I'd like to see some basic features added such as:

1.) The ability to add transitions / fades between segments.

2.) The ability to add effects such as fast-forwarding or slowmotion to portions of the highlight.

3.) The ability to manually mute audio from portions of the highlight in order to censor parts of the stream without having to cut it out entirely (such as a friend in a multiplayer game accidentally cursing during a Family Friendly stream)

I don’t know why this isn’t automatically enabled because I’m new to twitch but I just lost my first ever twitch stream vod because I didn’t know I had to MANUALLY enable it. I’m brand new to twitch and have no clue how it works so for me to have to search every settings to save replays instead of assuming it’s automatically saved which would make tons more sense but no it’s gone and I had no clue and I’m sure countless other new people have had this happen so here is a super easy fix

Just make it automatically save instead of ha big to enable that way there is so possible loss

Loosing 4 hours of content I wanted to use because I wasn’t informed how this works is very annoying. Unless I missed something this is a very bad system. I’d hate for more people to have to face this because it’s sad loosing your first stream and potentially good content