This would help people like me and others who use a mobile smart phone or tablet with touch screen help people who accidentally unfollow or follow. For example, "I unfollowed someone while watching them when I grabbed my phone, so now whenever I go back to look at my following section, he's not there." So, instead of having it so you automatically follow or unfollow, it will give a warning saying yes to follow or yes to unfollow and no to follow or no to unfollow. In my opinion, I think this is required with most of the things I have used that give warnings.

Charity streams and fundraisers in which viewers are induced to Subscribe to a channel, or send a lump-sum payment directly to a Broadcaster's PayPal, unnecessarily expose streamers to liability and viewers to fraud. This practice is for the most part largely unregulated on Twitch. If Twitch is not going to moderate this practice, then I implore them to create alternative, legitimate tools for Broadcasters who wish to raise money for charity.

My suggestion is to introduce a "Charity" button similar to the "Subscribe" button, with all money going directly to a designated registered charity. This could be a page hosted on Twitch similar to the Subscription page, or a direct link to an official DonorDrive page for the registered charity. Ideally, it would be possible for this process to hook into the Twitch API in some way, so that streaming tools could be written that track viewer contributions in the same way that they already do for Subscriptions.

There are many reasons why such a tool would be of benefit to Twitch, its community and charities. I feel that it would also quash potential fraud and further legitimize Twitch as a platform for charitable causes in gaming.

I posted this suggestion on the r/Twitch and you can read some of the existing feedback here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/4e12i4

My suggestion is to create an "Active Followers" statistic which tracks the number of followers who have re-visited a channel in the past 30 days that can be understood as a single number and discussed as the more important number, for example "The channel you are watching has 1000 followers, 200 of them active".

Currently: the bare count of a channel's followers provided is not as helpful as it could be.... does not help communicate to streamers and their viewers how well channel is doing with building and maintaining a community, as the bare Follower count includes people who followed but then never really come back.

Alternatively... Have the followers list include for each follower a "Date last watched" datapoint and show several activity statistics such as "Followers Active in the past 7 days, 14 days, 30 days, 60 days, etc" Or a "Follower activity chart" people can use to help understand the size of a channel's loyal following.

Think about when you are listening to your favorite music while watching your favorite streamer... Then they raid someone who is listening to music that clashes with yours. You either left their stream, or shut off your own music, right? With talks about cracking down on the usage of copyrighted music on Twitch. I would like to offer an idea that is similar to Discord and their integration with Spotify and their listening parties.

Let the streamer play music through Spotify, and allow viewers to join in and listen to the music that their favorite streamer is listening to. Those same viewers could also decide to listen to their own music, if they would like. I don't know all the logistics that would go into separating music from the stream for the broadcaster. Same could be done with Amazon Prime music, YouTube music, and the like.

Tell me what you think. I would love this to become a thing in the future. Let the discussion begin.

Twitch Lectures for Students

In light of recent COVID-19, colleges have had to move lectures to online only. We have had to deal with problematic systems like zoom, both teachers and students dislike the quality and lack of security. I request that there be feature that allows verified students in a stream with verified teachers.

This would essentially act be a similar feature to sub-only streams, only difference is that this would have to be a free feature where students are the only people who can access that teachers stream, granted they are in that class. This would likely require schools to share information with twitch as to which emails are verified student accounts.

We have discussed using other services such as discord, but we noticed that the quality and continuity of class discussions erode. It's the same reason why twitch streamers don't want 100+ people backseat gaming with mics on.

For twitch to implement a system like this would greatly aid in live lectures, as the picture quality is the best we've seen, and the ease of access would be best for students and teachers.

Some streamers do not interact often with their stream, and some others may not want to do so for any number of reasons. Often times, these streamers may be new to streaming as a whole, or it may just be not in their personality to do so. In addition, other streamers may be in certain phases of their game or activity where interacting with viewers may have negative consequences in their aforementioned game or activity. Even though Twitch values community interaction, I feel that it is important to accommodation the aforementioned kinds of streamers because they may go on to become more comfortable interacting with their viewers over time.