Since affiliate follow-emotes have come live, I've noticed several streamers are unable to use the new features due to suspensions 3 or 5 or more years old. So much so that some streamers can't even recall being suspended, or the reason for suspension, while maintaining a spotless record since then while consistently streaming for years, maintaining long term subscriptions and teams.

Despite otherwise fulfilling all the requirements for "Instant Upload Eligibility Requirements", they remain locked out of these new features, taunted by a link reading "find out how to regain access", with no further support, as they already meet said requirements to regain accress, condemning them for a long ago sin. Maybe they were ignorant of how words could hurt someone, or maybe they forgot to shut down their stream after it ended, or maybe the even slept on stream, or violated ToS with an alcohol themed stream. In most cases, these aren't vile offenses, and when the streamer perseveres through their just punishment, we should acknowledge their progress and growth, and we shouldn't inhibit their growth by holding these old offenses over their heads. Are you the same person you were 3, or 5, or 7 years ago?

In some cases, these features weren't even on any development roadmap when they were suspended, and rules on Twitch have changed, in some cases, significantly, since then.

I recommend Twitch open a line of communication to these streamers, and not treat them like branded felons like they do now - to allow streamers who have been positive members of the community and who are committed to continuing to grow. Why should they be stopped for something that could be forgiven after such a long time? Having spoken to some of these streamers, their ban appeals are always ignored because they're asking for forgiveness on a very old ban (3 or more years ago). Would it not be in our collective best interest to grant it to them if they have proven themselves?

Must they make a new account instead? That seems ridiculous and unfair. Some streamers have grown communities over many years, even approaching partner levels of success - but unless they breach that elusive threshold, it appears that Twitch has no care for them and will not lift the penalties incurred by old suspensions. They will only consider so if they make partner.
If the streamer wants to maintain the community they have already into a successful partner application, they must do so without the support of new tools that other streamers can use, despite the inordinate length of time between the suspension, and now. The way these old suspensions are currently handled, is a slap in the face of some productive and lovely streamers who have otherwise done no harm, and have been condemned to being second class affiliates.

So I call on Twitch to right this wrong. People grow and are capable of not only change, but to better the world around them, not only from learning from their mistakes, but because they made the mistakes and have learned and respected the boundaries imposed by Twitch, and have been in good standing since their infraction, over a long period.

Thank you.

Twitch has asked us to hold them accountable and we have been met with a wall of silence accompanied by shadow changes like the ones made to auto-hosts.

Twitch must communicate to creators with transparency about the plans and the data that leads to them. Without streamers there is no Twitch. We deserve to be able to ask questions and voice concerns about potential changes to the platform that we make possible.

These are the changes we would like to see:

1. Allow for comment periods in advance of finalizing rollouts of changes to existing features.

2. Provide open access to data from studies that lead to changes to the function and features of Twitch.

3. Communicate clear timelines for rollouts of new features and changes to existing features to allow streamers adequate time to prepare.

4. Provide a roadmap of expected changes to Twitch so that creators can understand the trajectory of the platform that many of us at least in part make a living on.

Moments is a new way to celebrate channel lore and reward viewers for being part of the hype, live. With the click of a button, you can now turn major moments on stream into a commemorative chat badge that viewers will receive if they were watching live. The more moments a viewer takes part in, the higher badge tiers they unlock. Plus, newcomers can get to know your stream by clicking into these badges and viewing the defining moments of your community.

We look forward to hearing your feedback and if you have any questions please refer to our help article (https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/moments) Please note that this is a beta and is only available to a select amount of creators currently.

At Twitch we always want to celebrate streaming milestones. To do that, we're experimenting with a feature that highlights a creator's Partner or Affiliate Anniversary!

To let you know when your anniversary is coming, we'll be sending creators notifications a few days beforehand. To help your audience know it’s your anniversary, we’ll be adding a party hat icon next to your name in the left sidebar to let your followers know about your special day. When viewers enter your channel during your anniversary, they’ll see the same party hat icon next to your name under the video player, as well as a private callout in chat prompting them to celebrate with a party hat emote. To make sure you don’t miss it, these features will be available for 24 hours both before and after your exact anniversary date. You don’t have to do anything to participate – if you're in the experiment group, just go live, and the features will automatically be available!

These features are part of a new experiment we’re running to better understand how we can help creators build visibility for events on their channel. Since it’s an experiment, keep in mind that not all of your viewers will see exactly the same features, and the experience will likely change before we fully launch it to all streamers. If you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to reach out. We'd love to hear them.

The longer a broadcaster streams, chances are that the founder badge loses its meaning. It's likely that your first subs aren't there as often now, so the chance of seeing that badge is less. This affects affiliates more since they can only have 10 founders. Think about an affiliate that has been streaming for a few years. What's the chance that their first 10 subs are still there and active in chat? It's very likely that only a couple of them are active, if any.

I propose that a new badge is created for active chatters, reviewed automatically every quarter by the system and handed out to your top 10 chatters, 25 for partners (to match founder's badge settings). This can supplement the founder's badge on a channel.

Give streamers/mods the possibility to create quizzes that involve viewers' participation; ideally for pre-shows, but not only.
Similar to bets, questions must appear in the chat, and everyone can participate.

How it works:

CREATION

The streamer/mod compiles preliminary information about the quiz:
- A descriptive title for the quiz
- A participation fee (in channel points).
- The maximum number of winners. Default is 3. At least 1. (see below for prize computation)
Then, the streamer/mod compiles a "list" of questions. Each question must have:
- A description (the question itself). Differently from bets, questions can be longer than 60 chars. The ideal is at least 200.
- A list of choices. Different from bets, choices can be more than 2. The ideal would be up to 4.
- A fixed time limit to answer. After the time has elapsed, it will no longer be possible to answer.
Due to its complexity, a quiz should be able to be created at any moment (not necessarily only during a live stream) and stored in the channel. Also, it can be modified/reviewed at a later time.

INITIALIZATION

The quiz can be "initialized" at any moment by the streamer/mod after the streamer goes live.
On the top of the chat, a new banner appears, with the descriptive title of the quiz.
This phase allows users to understand that a quiz is going to start; they can see the COST for the participation and a button to subscribe to the game.
Clicking on the button, the user pays the participation fee and acquires the ability to answer the upcoming questions.

THE FIRST QUESTION

At any moment, the streamer/mod can trigger the first question.
Then, the chat banner changes, showing the question and the available options. Also, a timer indicating the remaining time for the question is present. Unlike bets, players CAN'T see the number/percentage of users that choose an answer rather than another.
Users that have subscribed are now free to answer;
All other users in the chat can just see the question and the available options, without being able to interact with the banner.
Once one of the possible answers has been chosen, the player CAN'T change it.

THE NEXT QUESTIONS

Once the time for the question has elapsed, the correct answer is shown to everyone. Possibly, the head of a temporary classification can be shown (for example the first 3 players, based on their current/temporary score. See below for score computation)
The start of the next question must be triggered by the streamer/mod. There are no constraints on how much time can pass between two consecutive questions of a quiz. Also, bets or other chat interactions can be executed between questions belonging to the same quiz, like during a poll.
The player waits until the next question starts, and so on until the end of the game.

ENDING

After the last question is answered, the banner changes one last time, showing the names of the participants at the top of the leaderboard (for example the first 3 positions).
Winners receive a prize (in story points) depending on their score (position on the leaderboard).

SCORE COMPUTATION

How is the score computed?
- Wrong answers give 0 points.
- Right answers give a certain amount of points depending on two factors:
- How much time has passed from the start of the question. The shorter the time, the more points will be gained.
- Correct streak. Consecutive correct answers give the user a positive multiplier to the acquired score points.
The amount of gained points by each player defines the leaderboard. The player with the higher score is the absolute winner. Depending on the quiz configuration, a certain number of players can be considered winners (default is the first 3 players in the classification)

PRIZE COMPUTATION

The total sum of channel points collected from the participation cost will be distributed to the winners in different quantities, depending on their position on the leaderboard and the total number of winners.
An example of how the computation can work (just a simple proposal):
If the winning player is only 1, it takes the entire prize.
In case of 3 winners:
- the 3rd takes 16.66% (1 part over 6)
- the 2nd takes 33.33% (2 parts over 6)
- the 1st takes 50% (3 parts over 6)
The prize is shared proportionally among the winners based on their position.
This way every winner takes the double of the player under it in the leaderboard.

To better support artists and accredit their talents among the Twitch community, we’ve released two new features: Emote Attribution and the Artist Badge. Emote Attribution lets you credit the artists responsible for creating your emotes so they can feel the love wherever their emotes appear across Twitch. The Artist Badge lets you celebrate those who contributed artwork to your community with a special new chat badge.

You can get all the details on our Help page here: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/artist-badge-attribution

We’re excited to share both of these features with the community, but they’re just the first steps to better connect creators and artists on Twitch. Your feedback will help us refine these products and better serve artists and the community as a whole!

Allow creators to restrict viewing of their streams to logged in users only. As an option, this would help address hate raiders who get banned and continue to watch in incognito. Effectively preventing banned users from seeing the stream.

And, at the same time would give creators a simple tool to better control how their content is viewed. For example, if they were creating Mature content and wanted to add their own limitation on consumption.

Provide similar messaging to what is available on logged out Subscriber Streams which say "USER is streaming for 'registered users', Sign up now to join in: Watch the stream and participate in chat." Then a button to create an account.

Baiting Twitch users to pay money on behalf of their favorite streamers to boost discoverability is a bad idea and an unethical idea. It only unfairly furthers an existing advantage over other channels by exploiting community members’ good faith willingness to pay to support the streamer, and it does not make up for any deeper existing discoverability and usability failings. There is a consensus on social media that users understand this is a detriment to Twitch overall. If it doesn’t work as intended, they are wasting their money. But if it does work as intended, it greatly compromises the integrity of the platform.

This appears to be a feature designed based on the propensity for already paying users to pay more. It capitalizes upon the money-making potential of the already more successful minority of channels, with poor chances of making any meaningful growth impact whatsoever to other communities. If, as of now, anyone can earn channel points on an equal playing field, it only turns money into leverage for those willing/able or susceptible enough to spend it. The paid boost itself seems intended to take advantage of people with a willingness to pay extra for the mere theoretical possibility of supporting a streamer’s channel with more exposure.

Exposure alone is not valuable. Historically, it’s not worth channel points, and it’s not worth wagering real-world currency. Increasing impressions will often not make a difference across most KPIs. Presumably, it will not meaningfully increase unique viewers, based on how users traverse the site. And by extension, it certainly won’t lead to sustained increase in concurrent views, new follows, nor an eventual paid subscription. The vast majority of users who are exposed to a boosted stream, wherever or however they see it, are no more likely to click on it because it was “boosted.” Even if they know why it’s boosted, what is that supposed to mean from their perspective? This is assuming they are even made aware of it among other options presented to them. And that would be the best case scenario.

The more likely scenario is that the paid boosts result in no meaningful increase in impressions, and even more likely, no meaningful increase in clickthrough rates. What difference does boost make already? Apparently none, according to many streamers and viewers alike, but expecting users to pay is expected to make it work better in some way? Users who “test” this feature will have thrown away their money in the hope that maybe their money will make a difference. Some users will hope for the best, while most will probably avoid it, but relatively few users will recognize exactly how small the yield will be and why.

The value of their “support” cannot be meaningfully correlated to money spent, which makes encouraging them to spend their money difficult to justify. Or, alternatively, if hypothetically, the boost feature did consistently work as intended, ensuring that success could be bought or bid upon on the platform is entirely unethical and can irreversibly undermine the integrity of the platform. Just the notion of this “feature” alone is damaging, and a nearly unanimous and emphatic community reaction on social media has hopefully made that sentiment known. Twitch users have been voicing they don’t need this change and they don’t want it.

Making it possible for users to pay for what is normally a free feature is certainly not a convenience. It’s certainly not an improvement to it, nor a solution to its shortcomings. When users say they want the boost to be more effective, they are not asking for it to cost money out of their pocket. When users say they want the boost to be more effective, they are trying to tell Twitch that this “feature” is not working, and needs to be fixed; when Twitch’s idea of a “solution” is to make users pay, it is sending the message that users have to fix it.

Suggestion: cancel planned testing/launching this change as it favors paid inorganic growth over organic growth in ways that hurt the community as a whole. Explore iteration of existing channel points boost with user facing experience that demonstrates transparency and fair play, while investigating optimizations to underlying technical mechanisms that power it in order to make it more effective. User recommendations must be based on user engagement and presented with transparency to encourage trust and in order to be effective.

Editors should be able to delete clips from the link, not just the clip manager, just like the broadcaster can.

If you are an editor for a streamer who gets several thousand clips per stream, deleting old clips becomes a very painful experience scrolling in a list that only displays a small amount of clips at a time with no search option.

Deleting a clip that is several months old would take hours scrolling in one list making it unfeasible and the streamer themselves have to delete the clip from the link, because only they can do it easily.

I don't think implementing this would be very difficult and it would make deleting clips for editors SO much easier!

Best regards!