Is in agreement.

Think I might petition feel free to beat me too it.

Great job Twitch…you sucked the joy out of Twitch for me and now I hardly care to go on. I’m not interested in the HOT Tub, sex fueled channels you suggest and I’m not a gamer. I care to discover content based on my peers, my friends, on my own. Deleting the friends list was a bad move for people who do not stream and it’s even more bogus for you to suggest you follow people who don’t stream. What is that supposed to do? Guess I’ll go back to Mixcloud and that’s a shame as a big gift and bit supporter. Does Twitch even read these comments? Probably not, might as well just write this on a wall.

Furthermore-- forcing to follow to keep track of which friends you had doesn't really do anything. The reason we (human twitch users) follow is to watch streamers, support friends, or support up and coming that will be actually posting content in hopes they continue to show in our feed over the recommended garbage after a quick browse of what has become available -- that's true and you can quote me. However, following friends might mean never seeing them pop up again. Unless you can view what your following is watching and join them or choose to only message those of whom you follow then its counter intuitive to any user interface I can conceive. :3 Honestly, twitch has been losing respect rampantly by trying to cater to anyone who might fight loudly whilst forgetting that anyone who has access to the internet can view the content-- softcore hottubdance time.. and asmr that would be limited to a hub.. you know like two years ago. It's sad but I'm not a prude I am a gamer a mom and sometimes iffy e-girl but none-the-less this is dumb revert k.. and maybe make people put in there id's for 18+ content might as well at this point amazon owns you better keep it safe.

I already posted but will add to this, The feature helps people feel trust in your company hands down. I can't see a reason for this move without some sort of firm explanation. I spend time and money on twitch and what I have put in feels robbed when you decide to change feature in a way that decreases abilities restricts interaction, subjugation of free will to choose who or who cannot be available etc. , When options are taken away its damaging. Anyone can message you if you allow it or no-one can with this change, but before you could review and choose and restrict on your own, say only people you have deemed worthy or safe vr's the plethora of bots, scammers, and holds harassment's accountable to be easily weeded out and removed. I think your choice as a company was rash and should have included the community in some sort of democratic vote or reached out to the freelance coders that have a love of twitch to lend a voluntary hand if there was a lack of resources to maintain security-- just a hunch because friends is a great feature :3. ok ty bye

I concur immensely with this not only do I look to the people I have friended to discover things of similar tastes and interests I would NEVER be suggested or recommended I also enjoy the comradery after joining a friend. Honestly the Join a friend feature was why me, and many people I know who are creators and viewers, choose twitch over other platforms when view-botters are pulling in the recommendation algo. It's the only real way I feel comfortable and trust discovering new creators. Knowing I might enjoy and support the streamers with ad watching as well, while the feeling of doing it with a friend group is immensely integral, in my opinion, to the success of Twitch with the human interface preferring us over ad time.

Bring back friends list

Users that I message are not necessarily streamers; forcing us to follow each other so that we are no longer "strangers" before we can message each others is like forcing a square peg in a round hole - you can make it work, but it seems forced. Allowing strangers to message you is another concern that doesn't address personal concerns about safety and privacy. All in all, not the best rationale to remove the friends list and the alternatives are not ideal.

I agree with you PyroLionheart. It is the same with me. Many of the Streamers I follow today happened because friends I made on Twitch were online at the time, I saw who they were watching on my friend list and went to check them out. That lead to more Streamers I followed.

Totally agree and if was not for friends list I would not have discovered new streamers or different content!

I agree with this, please bring the friend list back.

I like to know when my friends are online so I can chat with them. We don't chat in our channels since most of my friends are not streamers, so we relied on our friend list to know when we were online so we could chat in whispers. So I prefer my follow list to ONLY be people that are actually streamers.

The idea of getting rid of the friend list and forcing us to now have our friends listed among the streamers we follow is a terrible idea! Why in the world would any of us want to have to an even larger follow list that is a mix of those that stream along with those that are just friends, especially if most of those friends are NOT streamers!?

Also since you got rid of the presence feature, now I always appear as offline when I'm not. I'm considered offline only because I don't stream! That was another terrible idea!

This was a very vital feature for something so community oriented. I can't find what my friends are watching and my friends don't see when I am streaming!

Of course it was underused by a decent % of viewers. Whowever this is a slap in the face and very annoying for those of us streaming and building our channels.

PLEASE bring it back!!

Since Twitch has decided to make stupid changes lately (like removing the Friends List), I will seriously make some changes too. Like Unfollowing TWITCH! what's the point? I have to browse what THEY recommend? NOPE....Twitch ur losing someone who supported many streamers. Twitch has now become what TWTICH recommends, their big streamers only. Buh-bye

The idiots actually removed friends? What a stupid thing to do.

please bring friends back. :(

Bring back friends, I've begged for it not to be removed and now I'm begging for them to bring it back.

All we have is the argument to "save resources"... well to me this is going to make me give Twitch less of my resources (money). Perhaps the issue is related to stalking, if so provide granular control to friends (for example, Instagram has a "restrict" feature).

170 people already went through the effort to like my previous 'idea' asking for it not to be removed. These people, like me, are extremely passionate about this feature. I don't even know if the friends list as been removed yet but I'm trying to find who's online (streaming/watching) and I can't see my list (on PC, on mobile it was removed like a week ago).

Should I mass unfollow people? Potentially cutting off people from future rediscovery- giving them/Twitch money as I pay for emotes and to avoid ads. Potentially losing ties I wouldn't have even thought of. Cutting Twitch's ability to recommend channels to me by reducing the data they have on me. How do I get back to enjoying Twitch outside of the few tabs I have open to lurk people?

This feature is super important to me and I'm devastated (not exaggerating here) that it's been removed.

Please will some Twitch exec or website developer (in a managerial role) restart this.

Seriously. Not all my friends stream and I dont know how many new streamers I've found because my friends were watching them. This is a silly thing to get rid of.

I vote one million times!

Why is Twitch removing the Friends option? They talk about Community but realistically, that's how many find new content!!!! You want us to follow people who don't stream? What will happen and IS happening, rather than following hundreds of people, they will start to unfollow and just follow when they want to listen. This will hurt Follow Only Streams that prevent unwanted chatter. I heard it prevents stalking? How's that when all you have to do is follow who you want to stalk and then unfollow. Isn't that what banning is for?😒🙄🤔

Removing friends / online friends list is such a bad move. I find so many new communities and streamers based on this feature. The reasoning for it seems weak. Twitch says they want you to be engaged with the streamer, however if you break the tribe that gathers around the streamer, the community that supports that streamer weakens. From an outside perspective it seems like an attempt to drive attention to only the top streamers, I think this will open a market for competitors to build a more community focused platform and twitch will suffer.
Good luck Amazon hope you catch on to how people actually use this platform you bought for the underlying tech.