We’ve heard feedback from the community that it can be difficult to understand when and why a Hype Train appears in a channel. To improve this experience, we are experimenting with a new feature that lets communities know when a Hype Train is near, and communicates how many support events, including subs, sub gifts or Bits usage, from unique users are required to kick it off. The “Hype Train is Near” notification appears in chat when the community is within one to three actions of kicking off a Hype Train, depending on the kickoff threshold set by the streamer. The notification also includes a timer that counts down the time remaining to kick off a Hype Train with that number of actions. If those actions are fulfilled, the notification transitions directly to the Hype Train experience. If not, the notification disappears until the next time a Hype train is near.

Have thoughts / questions? We’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions here. Thank you for your ongoing support and feedback!

We are experimenting with a new feature that adds chat animations to Hype Train level achievements. When Hype Trains are close to reaching the next level, unlockable emotes will begin to simmer up from the community highlight at the top of chat. Viewers who contributed toward the Hype Train will receive these emotes as level milestones are achieved. When a given level reaches 100%, emotes will rain down from the Hype Train animation at the top of chat to mark the moment and add to hype in the channel. Should viewers prefer a more muted experience, they can lower the intensity of these animations via the Hype Train balloon at the top of chat.

As we’ll be testing multiple versions of these animations, your feedback will help us improve the feature if we decide to launch more broadly. Have thoughts / questions? We’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions here.

Thank you for your ongoing support and feedback!

With the Hype Train being implemented and having such a positive effect on content creator's channels, I think it would be worthwhile to add more rewards. The conductor badges have been HUGE for showing who is genuinely supporting, as well as the emotes that get dispensed. A few ideas I have to give more incentives for donating bits and gifting subs are things such as; Names in chat have more unique traits for those who have been top supporters, such as all gold names, rainbow names, special fonts etc. The ability to add exciting alerts for when new levels have been "beaten" would also amplify the hype. Another idea is for an option the streamer would be able to adjust for those who place top 3 to receive "X" amount of channel points. The last idea as of now that I have would be to show the all time previous Hype Train record somewhere, allowing chat to know what they would have to beat, percentage wise, to be the best yet, followed by some sort of exciting alert if it is beaten.

Not really a "mod tool" but as a mod (and a viewer) we really need the option to hide the new hype train/notification at the top of chat. It takes up way to much of chat and its distracting. when you have 10k people chatting and your trying to mod and keep en eye on everything, this giant banner scrolling around taking up 1/3 of the already small chat window every time it "levels up" or whatever is pretty bad.

On a side note, the hype train hides polls. so if i make a poll for chat and there is a hype train going no one can see it to vote.