Can you please explain your reasoning for the choice to make raiders not count as true viewership and how you suggest smaller facets of streaming like small art categories such as the miniature painting streams, who make up a large portion of streams but do not draw massive viewership because of the niche market, yet we struggle to meet your hidden criteria for partnership. What does it actually take to get partnership and how can you help those of us in smaller communities to reach partnership? Also, when the select few of us in smaller communities reach the 75 concurrent viewership, can you please be more transparent on what needs to be done to earn partnership after the fact?

The new /raid feature is great for channel networking as hosting has always been, but both can be problematic for many viewers. It would be convenient for the User Settings page to be updated with a set of opt out settings for both raids and hosts. If a user opts out of raids, they will be considered to automatically click "Leave" at the end of any raid countdown timer. If they opt out of hosts, hosted channels will not load unless the viewer intentionally presses the "Play" button.

Raids and Hosting present problems for:

1) Temporarily AFK viewers during the stream's end
2) Viewers multitasking during the stream's end (especially playing a game). A raid porting someone from one channel to another can suddenly change audio or bitrate settings, or even alt-tab viewers out of some games.
3) Viewers with data limits who only budget data to watch one channel can be surprised when forced to join other channels and continue to consume data

Thanks!

What if @twitch communities could “Air Drop” Bits, Gift Subs, Donations etc. during a raid?

A Streamer starts a raid & a timer begins & the viewers from the channel raiding “Fill the Air Drop” (A Crate/Giftbox etc.) & AFTER the raid begins but BEFORE the support drops, Twitch sends an alert to the top of the chat of channel being raided indicating ”Air Drop Incoming!” w/ a countdown timer & pic/gif of the Crate/Giftbox w/ a parachute attached to it & when the countdown hits 0, ALL that support drops into the chat of the (small 🥺) channel being raided.

You could even add effects going off in the chat (The raiders channels' personal channel emotes, Fireworks etc..) & when the support finally drops it would show who supported, what kind of support they gave (bits, gifted subs, donations etc..) and how much support directly in the chat of the channel that is being raided.

Just imagine a small streamer alone with no one or just a couple of people watching. You’ve seen how excited smaller streamers get when they are raided. Now imagine an explosion & flurry of support that drops in their chat as they are being raided!? So many tears will come from this idea but they will be tears of joy!

There will be so many amazing reactions you see from raids with "Air Drops" and the communities that were generous enough to support would be able to see it all in real time! Twitch would be happy, small streamers would be happy, and communities/viewers would be engaging/interactive and entertained. It's a win/win with 0 downsides.

Let’s help millions of smaller streamers. (Cause even though this idea would DEFINITELY help everyone, I came up with it with smaller streamers in mind!) #bladesideas

I also tweeted this out. @InventorBLADES on twitter. Let me know your thoughts on here or there and vote and share, share, share! 🗳

P.S. I should mention as with all my ideas, this should absolutely be optional for the streamer and have these choices available in settings:

“Allow air drops during raids”
“Do not allow air drops during raids”
“Prompt me to either air drop or not during the start of each raid”

-InventorBLADES

Give us a way to set a list of streams we do or do not wish to receive raids from.

Currently the only options for limiting raids are

Allow all raids,
Only allow raids from friends, teammates, and followed channels,
& Block all raids.

Occasionally raids from particular communities my prove disruptive for the receiving community, and we may not wish to take the step of banning the streamer outright. Being able to specify specific streams we do or do not wish to receive raids from would allow us a greater deal of control without resorting to the heavier step of bans.

The DJ community regularly creates multi-DJ events ("Raid Trains") where DJs take turns doing a set for a predetermined amount of time and then raid the next channel on the schedule. These events can last anywhere from a few hours up to several days. Twitch needs a feature where a user could "follow" the raid train and allow them to pop in at any time. Currently, you'd have to know which channel in the raid train is broadcasting at the given hour, search for them and then join. In a 4-day raid train with 90 DJs, this can be a lot to ask of the viewer.

I have recently seen a new mass raid bot appear in the wild in multiple channels within days of each other, with 2 variations of either many hundreds of users or just 1. The only current way to 'solve' the issue is set raids to Network (friends, followed etc) or None (block), this does not give enough control though.

Issues:
* Twitch posts a non-deleteable raid message
* No control over mininum number of viewers in a raid

As a moderator I have no way to help the broadcaster in a situation in which a raid bot appears.

Solutions:
* Implementing a minimum number of viewers in a raid, and have this configurable via chat commands.
* Provide the UI and IRC with the ability to delete the raid notifications. This would also solve when usernames contain phrases/words a broadcaster determines inappropriate. I've checked with my own moderation bot, and although an Id is provided with the raid user notice, if you attempt to call /delete {msg-id} the system returns a notice with a msg-id of 'baddeletemessage_error'

As a small streamer, one great way to network and meet new people is via raiding. However, much of the time, raids are too small for some streamers and there is no notification of the raid in chat or via alert. This really devalues small streamers and gives us the impression that we are not worth recognition on Twitch. Small raids are still raids.

You might be asking, "well people who aren't live can just press the raid button, and it can be spammy." To this I'd say, if there was some recognition that an individual was live (ex. 1 minute grace-period after stream ends), then Twitch will automatically allow the raid to go through if the streamer presses the "raid now" button during the grace period after ending stream. A small streamer wanting to raid shouldn't have to use the host mechanic for there to be some form of notification.

Back at the end of September 2018, Twitch REMOVED the ability for a broadcaster to press "RAID NOW" from chat when the broadcaster wasn't the one who started the Raid, this was complained about, as there were a number such as myself who use Bots to start off the Raids,

Twitch "Fixed" this with the new Raid & Hosts panel that was launched shortly after in the Dashboard....

Now the Dashboard is changing, and there is no longer a Raid & Hosts Panel only a Raid Option (Nothing to indicate an in progress Raid), this is now a Problem AGAIN

Twitch....

Please Allow Broadcasters to Complete their Raids from Chat again OR retain a way for us to use the old dashboard OR implement a Raid Now button within the new dashboard when a raid has been started because we need a way to actually run that Raid!

Edit: Even better, give us a command in chat we can use to complete the Raid

We all use autohost, raiding and manual hosting sometimes. Its labor intensive & tireing though. One has to devote time to find a stream to drop viewers into. On top of inconvinience of that process... there is corruption going on in certain communities. People are retaining viewers by hosting their group of friends only, so these viewers are never exposed to anything new.

My idea is to automate the process of raiding, to disperse thousends of viewers watching huge streamer, by sending them to zero-viewer channels from same game cathegory.. or to the ones having simmilar cathegories history. By doing this, afk viewers have chance to explore, discover, get positively surprised plus get heard and network for the first time, because huge streamers dont read chat. When streamers like Lirik go offline, his audience is left off with silent device theyve been viewing the stream on. Why not, for the first time in streaming platforms history, providing smart solution for the discoverability problem. You cannot lump majority of streamers into featured streams section, and hope viewers will check that on their own. You cannot hope viewers will waste time painstakingly scrolling down the enormous list of streams in diffrent cathegories having heavy thumbnails to load, slow server response time loading small chunks of few thumbnails at a time, so the list loading process with up to 10 second loading delays beween these chunks takes in fact forever.. eventually making viewers give up on search. Almost nobody scrolls down the full list of streams currently avilable in a game cathegory, instead people hold dear to their small list of subbed streams and watch them only. Dont get me wrong, viewers would have a choice to opt out from the feature in their account settings, in case some of them would prefer dead silence instead of fluid entertainment delivery like that. Credit me, once you finnaly develop and impement this system ;)

P.S. The algorithm could be designet similarly to what youve done with AI emote based tagging of clips "Using chat emotes as signals for content themes" on Oct 5 2017 - By Ariel Sagalovsky... to establish what was the longest active or most exciting game cathegory of finnishing streamer that day, to better determin where to send people next.