No way to know who you were watching when VOD is deleted
Currently, if you have a link to a deleted VOD, there's no way to find who uploaded it. This is very annoying. Say you have an old saved tab with a VOD you were watching. You open it, and it's deleted. You have to guess based on the saved title (if you have it) of the tab who you were watching.
A solution to this issue would be making deleted VOD pages contain the name of or redirect to the channel that uploaded them. Or alternatively just adding an optional (to not break existing links) param to the URL pattern for VODs containing the channel name. So links in the UI like
could become
Ideally there would be an accompanying "go to the channel" button in the UI if that param is present, but even just the URL change would give you the information you need so would be nice as a first step.
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babstican
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Made a userscript that adds the param on load of undeleted VODs to handle my situation:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/454272-twitch-add-channel-name-to-vod-urls