there has to be some way to intercept the signal just before twitch receives it in order to show the viewers. it really puts console streamers at a bigger disadvantage than the pc streamer. As its easier to keep attention with overlays and on screen events. all console streamers dream of having a capture card and a baller pc with god tier specs. some of us pick up the knock off laptop, some of us have hard times in life, some just go the extra mile and do both. just some thing cause the current way to do it causes to much lag and stutter.

It would be good to have a per user and a global cooldown option for the channel points.
For example for a reward to "Stay Hydrated" or "Dab", viewers who have saved up a lot of points can spam them in a short time which ruins the idea of the rewards purpose or becomes annoying.

Right now the only setting is to limit the number of times it is redeemed per stream for all viewers. Which is only helpful for something that you would only want redeemed 2 or 3 times and not something you intended to be redeemed many times but not all at once.

I recently had a GB Tetris stream get muted because the copyright bot's song IDing listed "Ikon Ringtones" as the owner of the song.

I can say with full confidence that "Ikon Ringtones" does NOT own Hirokazu Tanaka's 8-bit rendition of a Russian folk song. And that's been the problem for years - bad actors clowning around with copyright claims for video game music they don't own. Not only do establishments like "Ikon Ringtones" get away with it for using video game music as ringtone options, insignificant nobody DJs have also been known to do it when they sample music from a video game and then streamers get muted for nothing more than playing a video game.

It's high time Twitch allows us to appeal muted streams based on the supposed claimant clearly not owning the rights to the music, and puts more manual effort into identifying these bad actors and disqualifying them from further copyright claims without definitive proof that they are the owner of the copyrighted work.

I was just thinking about an idea that would probably help people who are new to streaming on Twitch to have a tab list of New and upcoming streamers who have like 100 followers or less to see an entire list of new streamers who haven't had that many followers to be easily seen to give chance for them to be noticed by channels who have slightly bigger followership and viewership. This would give new streamers a chance of being noticed and checked out, and also gives opportunity for bigger channels to drop them a raid too, because part of being a community is supporting each other on the platform, and sometimes we just want to help out these smaller channels and give them a little boost.

Having connections, and friends to come watch your streams is nice and all, but in the grand scheme of things doesn't really do much for growth on the platform. It would also make new streamers less discouraged by their growth on the platform not feeling like it's going anywhere, and being stuck with low viewer counts. So make a list of 100 New streamers or something like that.

Whether you stream on PC, console, or mobile platforms there is only 2 components, 1 overlay, and 3 panels. I understand that this was probably the most anyone wanted to attempt when you guys 1st started. However, now you are probably the top kid in the streaming game, and this feature could use an update in amount of available slots. If these were always showing then I could see the need for a limit, but most only become visible once hovered over or located in the panel section below. So with this being said you could add more slots for us to use because I just signed up for Overlay expert and I would love to see my overlay in action on all my games I play. But, sadly this can't happen because I use extensions like the D2 official that go active the moment I fired up the game, and pushes the overlay into the inactive state. If these are overlays, shouldn't they be active whenever WE need them to be, and not at the whim of one of our auto-active overlays? I am a new streamer, by that I mean I have been streaming a long time but now I am so close to affiliate that I would love to use features that will give me an edge in regards to this milestone (as well as others). I am a studying game designer, so I know a thing or 2 about coding, and I think this is very achievable since most of the extensions are hidden until selected. Why hasn't this been addressed already? I think you would have jumped at the chance to improve this feature for your streamers since this is what this service is for, right? If not, then is there a reason why this can't happen, or hasn't happened already?