We have an official game channel on Twitch -- we have tons of streamers that play the game, but (of course) most are variety streamers.

We'd love to autohost some of these folks playing our game, but it'd be awkward if we autohost them and they randomly play :any game that's not our game:. After all, it's the official game Twitch channel!

This would be useful to any themed streamers or gamers that only play x or y game. There may be variety streamers that play MOBAS but a LoL Twitch channel would autohost their friends only when they're playing that particular game.

Game name is already in the meta data, seems like it'd be minimal effort to implement!

Auto Hosts NEED to be on the "Live" in order for them to work as intended.

Basically auto hosts won't have any effect on viewer count as they are now after the changes. I had a group of underrated streamers on mine that could have really felt the impact of the dozen or so hard lurkers that always have my channel page open. This just makes it even harder to support small streamers, and HURTS discoverability. On the flip-side of this I had a few REALLY big streamers/ YouTubers that had me on their auto host list and literally every stream I would get people to come in and tell me they found me from an auto host from one of them. Not to mention if I host someone at the end of my stream and then 20 minutes later they end their stream all of those viewers that are left on my page go literally nowhere.

I don't care what your research showed. I have streamed for thousands of hours and KNOW how these changes have affected people since the changes to auto host. None of it is good.

There are times when I don't want to load in to a new stream after the one I was watching is over.

Some examples are when I am alt-tabbed and playing a game.

For me personally, while playing a game I will always experience a spike in bandwidth usage while the new hosted stream loads in.
Not all streams will use the same bitrate either, which is a concern, however I've not had issues with that problem so far.

Another example is when I am away from the computer, viewing twitch as it were actual TV.

Then inevitably having my ears blasted off by a hosted streamer with much higher audio settings.

I overall enjoy hosting as a feature, but there are times when it's not appropriate to have.
At least not now while stream-to-stream settings across twitch are not standardized in any way.

I have noticed that the recent changes made to auto hosting has appeared to have removed auto hosting stream team members, this isn't a good look, as many of us liked being able to have other team members featured on our channels when we're not live, and depending on how many members are on the selected team, allowing us to have somebody auto hosted with virtually no gaps, which really went far with helping smaller streamers on the team get some degree of spotlight, and even a slight bump up their directory if hosted by a streamer who still had a handful of lingering lurkers who have gone to sleep hours ago.

If this isn't brought back, then being transparent on why it was removed would be nice.

Why do you punish large streamers with over 10k viewers that they can't raid? If it's a concern of overloading the viewer hosted, they can opt out if they don't want raids. If it's to avoid bots, maybe add a bot filter to weed out the bots so they get removed from the raid. If it's because the system can't handle that large of a raid, then perhaps upgrade the site's ability to handle it. In any case there are valid solutions that don't involve forcing a large streamer to tell their viewers who want to support the next stream that they have to leave to get under the limit allowed. I've witnessed this happen myself with my own eyes. It's not cool to have to be dismissive of part of your viewer base and limit the support given to the next person you move the streamer over to.

I'm not sure if I'm putting this in the right spot but I would love the ability to select people on the twitch team that I don't want auto-hosted. For example you're on a team and 1 member of that team is causing issues for other members and claiming they're cheating at a game without providing proof but the owner of the team has not yet chosen to get rid of them. I'd live the option to have team auto-host on but block that person from being auto-hosted. Currently you either auto-host anyone on the team or no one that is not in your personal auto-host list.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST TO COMPLETELY ROLLBACK THE CHANGES TO AUTOHOST. IT IS ITS OWN SUGGESTION THAT I WAS ALREADY GOING TO POST.

The Directory is where people go to find specific content. If they are looking in the Hosts tab, then they should have ALL hosted content show up there.

You've heard from the community that we are not okay with having autohosts only appear on the channel carousel. We've told you about how it's the primary method creators have to support one another when not streaming or ending a stream, especially when others we're supporting are across the world and in different time zones. We've told you about how using autohost in the Directory is the way we as veteran users of the platform share and discover other creators.

Let's be frank about this: There is no point in autohosting anyone or even having a Hosts tab in the Directory the way things are now. Nobody is being supported through autohost anymore, and it's already harming us creators not having autohosts in the Directory at all. We can change this by having autohosted content show on the Hosts tab, which is exactly what it is for - hosted content. And the majority of that content is autohosted.

This doesn't undo the benefit of removing autohosts from the Live tab. Where people were getting confused before because hosts were being mixed in with live channels in the Overview tab, there's no miscommunication to be made when someone is looking in the Hosts tab for hosted content, and including autohosted content does nothing but expand the diversity availably in the Hosts section of the Directory.

It only makes sense to have the Hosts tab show ALL hosted content, autohost included. Without this, neither the Hosts tab nor autohost are worth dirt, and autohost has been a keystone in creators supporting creators on this platform.