Dear Twitch,

We are now dealing with a new threat of bot accounts. These accounts sit lurking in channel, possibly logging info of either streamers or chatters. They may be using this info for giveaway sniping, or possible future bot attacks, including viewer bots, follower bots, and even spam bots. They sit there and do nothing, they follow us to other streams we host/raid. We ban them, not like they ever say anything, but to prevent them from spreading, we need a way to KICK THEM OFF THE CHANNEL.

Recently had a run in with "Opentwitchbot" whom acknowledges that they are running a bot in other's channels, but never requested permission to do so, instead, they want us to run THEIR command in our channels to make them leave, which isn't possible on our bots, because our bots are not design for that command, nor is it a Twitch command. I don't know what their command is doing, and I certainly don't trust it. When confronting them on the fact that their bot is breaking ToS, they reported me for reporting them. I requested and stated to them several times, their bot is not welcomed in my channel, and they refused to remove themselves until the end of my stream, waiting for me to host someone and latch on to them, thus spreading.

We've all been noticing another set of bots possibly working together, Faegwent ThisIsMyDevAccount and chatdb, they never speak, but they have hundreds if not thousands of followers, they never broadcast, etc etc, what are they doing sitting in our chat? sending info to these followers? that's against ToS. We the broadcasters need an option to kick them from the page, doesn't have to be permanent, they might have an option to hop back on, but I think we should have some sort of captcha security so they can PROVE they are human, and not a bot when rejoining the page!

Banning doesn't do enough if they can still read the chat and gather the info. Reporting seems to do nothing for the past 2 months of reporting them, from MULTIPLE witnesses/reporters. It's about time we have some control over the unwelcome bot accounts.

Help us help you lessen the load!

Sincerely,
A Hard Working Broadcaster, just trying to stop the spread of unwanted guests.

Before you implemented the new player you didn't need to refresh the page when a stream went live. Now you will not even notice when a stream goes live unless you refresh the page.

Example:
Current behavior:
1. Go to offline stream page (ex https://www.twitch.tv/reckful)
2. Reckful starts his stream
3. Nothing happens and the user has no idea that reckful has gone live even if he has had this tab open for hours

Wanted behavior:
1. Go to offline stream page (ex https://www.twitch.tv/reckful)
2. Reckful starts streaming
3. Stream starts playing instantly

I know that this worked previously with the old flash player, so is this feature gone because of limitations in the HTML5 player or was it just overlooked?

No two weeks of streaming are the same for me as a variety streamer.

Even those people who play the same game every day tend to switch up the focus point of their content.

The current 'day of the week and time' doesn't allow us to schedule any further than 7 days ahead. Instead, could we please just get a simple calendar function?

We could schedule streams much further in advance to bookmark game releases, sponsored content or even upcoming holidays/absences (giving our audience plenty more warning)

Then for those who ARE doing the same content each week, simply have a tick box that says 'Repeat going forwards' which can be undone at any time

Let me know what y'all think 👍

Channel points would benefit from having more options. Give streamers the ability to put a redemption on a cooldown per user and per redemption so we aren't getting spammed with 10 hydration checks in one minute etc.

Allowing moderator access to channel points could be cool too. Have a redemption that we can type a command and have it work automatically. Examples:
"Time myself out for 1 minute!" /timout [user] 60
"Emote only chat!" /emoteonly

Even better would be a double command with a box for a time interval, so:
"VIP for a day!" /vip [user] | duration 24:00:00 | /unvip [user]

I think as a matter of principal, a streamer should be able to reset everyone's channel points down to 0 if they choose. It's their channel and they should have the ability to reset everything back to square one. I have a personal experience to why I really require a reset button for this.

I enabled channel points way back when the feature was first introduced with the intent of adding custom redemptions down the line. Well last month I added them and I'm in the predicament where I can't set values for them fairly. I have people who have 100k+ points stocked up. If I want to make the redemptions numbers something reachable to new viewers in a reasonable amount of time, people who have points stockpiled can redeem these in mass amounts. And I can't just put a really high "waste points button" redemption on there because there's no reason for anyone to redeem it. So I know some would redeem it but others wouldn't and it's not fair that those who drain their points with good intentions, but the issue isn't solved.

Any time someone overhauls their channel point redemptions, allowing the streamer to reset everyone's points could make the whole process easier. Please give streamers the ability to have some more control over their channel points in their channel

Hello, I follow a lot of people on Twitch, a lot of people have not started streaming yet, will probably do it soon or will not stream at all.

I find it impossible that the channel follow limit is 2000 follow.

Please increase the number to at least 10000 channel follows, so that I can follow more than 2000 channels & users.

Even on Youtube there is no channel following limit!

Please increase this, I have to delete users from my channel list all the time, which annoys me a lot.

I also find it very dubious for a streaming platform that there is such a limit at all.

At the moment I can't see which channel I'm following because it's no longer displayed in the browser since Twitch redesigned it.

2000 channels to follow are just too few, please fixt this problem.

1. Being able to convert channel points into bits to use for that specific channel where you collected the channel points. Twitch can set an amount that would be beneficial to them and the Broadcaster.




2. Being able to use the channel points to subscribe to the channel. I mean we are there watching and supporting the broadcaster but it would bring in more viewers and watch time if the channel points actually mean something and is useful.

Example where channel points don't matter at all is at Maximilian_Dood's channel who is one of my favorite broadcasters. I have accrued so many points and using them there is pointless. I want to be able to actually support him in a way because I actually enjoy the content and I believe Channel Points if revised can be beneficial for both Twitch and the Broadcaster.

Hello!

I am developing an integration with the channel points redemption pubsub that allows viewers to interact with the streamer’s game. For example, they can set the character on fire, make them invisible, etc.

The issue I am running into is that there appears to be a hard cap of 25 custom rewards available per channel. This limits the number of unique interactions that can be redeemed via the interface. A possible workaround is to group multiple rewards together and perform levenshtein distance on user input. However, it would be desirable to set a unique cost, description, and image to make it clear what each individual redemption is.

Is it possible to increase this limit at this time? And if not, are there any plans to do this in the future?

Thanks!