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)

Dear Twitch team,

Could you please add settings to the video player in the Twitch mobile app or web for mobile devices allowing user to increase video speed (1.25, 1.5, 2 times) of past broadcasts (VODs) as it is possible on the web for desktops?

OR

Problem on the web for desktops is that it is not possible to jump few seconds forward and backward in the video using tablet or mobile device as these devices do not have arrow keys. Could you add there into the video player an icon allowing the jump forward/backward on a "mouse" click or finger swipe?

Thank you for considering these enhancements. I'm sure it will make many twitch users happier.

Regards,

Dr_Koule

So I would like to add two new divisions of the website.

Adding past broadcasts into a separate archive and revamping the video uploads functions into a third archive (clips, highlights and uploads). All now placed into separate discoverablity sections of the website.

So at the moment everything is jumbled on the platform and user channels.

From a channel perspective it would be as simple as adding these into separate tabs, eg the about and schedule tabs.
That way you can drive more static video content creators to the platform. A rejig and rebranding of the highlights and clips features could also do that trick.
I would imagine this would start as a second place to post YouTube gaming content like achievement guides, walk-through and game reviews.

The way this would impact the main search bar is that you can categorise what content they are looking for by the meta tags on the tabs and content types. Using a red dot for live streams, a clip board for past streams and a popcorn for videos.

I think that this would be very intuitive to most users.

I think the navigation of vods is pretty tedious. It would greatly benefit from a more user friendly interaction. The Android app has buttons to revert 10 seconds or skip 30 seconds. This is great, however these buttons aren't accessible enough due to being to small. As Fitts's UI design Law teaches us, the accessibility can be increased by increasing the size of the button. The way YouTube does it is splendid. The left half of the screen is used to navigate backwards and the right to navigate forwards. Then, by simply double tapping in the respective region the user can navigate without needing to find and click rather small buttons.

I think it would be amazing to have a snappy instant replay option whereby, with the touch of a button we could have a pop-up overlay which could be set to play back the last 5-15 seconds (or however much time deemed optimal by the community) of action with playback control.

Clips are a great feature and definitely have their place like when a streamer asks us to clip something or we just want to highlight and share something with chat, but they do take us away from live action by opening in a new tab.

Most of the time I am not interested in taking time messing around with setting up a clip to share, I just want to be able to see and review a quick replay of what just happened without being taken away from the action.