It seems Twitch is rolling out a method where Notifications are disabled automatically for streams you may not view often. This could easily be missed by a viewer who wants to enjoy that stream but maybe timezones are an issue, or just real life gets in the way.

People can already manually turn off notifications if they choose, automating this seems to be something that will only hurt producers.

Some people may not receive an email at all, and find they have had their notifications forced off. This is a bad bad direction to go in.

Please only allow manual disabling of notifications.

I would like to have an option that whenever you are live, and you change the category of what you are currently streaming, that new "go live" notifications (push, email, etc.) are sent out to followers. Even if it takes several minutes for these notifications to go out, it would be beneficial. There are times when a certain game (or category) is being streamed that followers might not have an interest in watching, but should you change to a game (or category) that they might be interested in watching while you are already live, having new notifications being sent out that you are live and are streaming "X" could be helpful.

https://twitter.com/thundergod97/status/1038248476948213760 my twitter thread about this.

1. Option to always send an email (obviously not everyone wants this so it should be an OPTION. I use email notifications as a history of when people have gone live. I also get push notifications of emails from that email address on my phone, so I can tell when people have gone live.

2. Base it actually on ACTIVITY. If I have browser windows at home open to twitch that does not mean I am ACTIVE on twitch. You should be able to tell when I'm active because I'm chatting or I'm clicking around the site. If I'm using the app, send notifications there. If I'm using the site, send notifications there. If I'm not using anything....revert to email (but also see #1).

It just needs to be smarter. Since you implemented it the notifications have only either been going to my browser window at home, or my phone via the app. I'm not active in those 24 hours a day. I have received ZERO notifications in my email since you turned "smart" notifications on.

Twitch will automatically disable notifications from a channel because I haven't watched them in a while. I would like to prevent Twitch from doing this, because it means I have to go into my settings and re-enable those notifications. I would like to not spend time re-enabling settings I didn't want disabled in the first place.

Here is the message I receive when Twitch takes this action:

You receive an email or mobile notification from Twitch whenever [streamer] goes live, but we noticed you haven’t viewed that stream in a while. To make sure you only get notifications relevant to the channels you watch, we will no longer be sending you updates about [streamer].

If you still want to receive updates from [streamer], you can set your own preferences at any time through your notifications settings.

Often, I want to follow a streamer only for certain games/categories they stream, such as following artists only for their Art and Just Chatting streams but not their gaming streams, or I might just not want to see anyone playing certain games, no matter how much I like that streamer otherwise (e.g. to avoid spoilers or just because I have no interest in it). Notifications for streams I have no interest in just distract and annoy me, and lead to me either unfollowing the streamers or ignoring them so much that Twitch stops sending them.

While I think that opting in to categories would be too harmful to streamers and discourage them from trying new things, I think it would be great if viewers could opt out of notifications for specific categories. I think the fairest and simplest way (UI-wise) would be to have it as a global setting, so that you could avoid notifications for categories you're never interested in seeing.

Why were host notifications in chat taken away? I thrived on the excitement from those notifications, and it was the best way for me to acknowledge another streamer's, and his/her community's, support for my shows. Now I have no easy way of knowing if somebody is hosting me, without having to hunt around for it. Also, a lot of broadcaster tools (e.g. StreamLabs, StreamElements) rely on these notifications to generate on-screen alerts, and because of this unannounced removal, they no longer function properly. Please bring this back! If people don't like these notifications, give them an option to turn them off, rather than a blanket shutdown for the entire streaming populace.

"Why are we updating your streamer preferences?

We want to make Twitch notifications as effective and efficient as we can for you to see the activity you care most about."

Okay, but I don't want you to do that. Let ME decide what's best for ME. Why would I want you to automatically adjust my settings? This is terrible. At the very least, users should be able to opt out. I can't fathom why this was ever even implemented. Removing or resetting options without a prompt is ALWAYS anti-user, and it's frustrating to keep changing them back. Maybe I want the notifications even if I personally am not watching the stream? Did no one consider that? It's ridiculous. If you just give us the option, it covers every use case instead of forcing what you think is best on us.

Streamer schedules vary widely, and sometimes channels we enjoy watching tell us they're going live at inopportune times. We could be in an important meeting, or we could be trying to sleep. Sometimes, we're just not in the mood to receive notifications from Twitch on our phones. I'd like to see some further customization in channel notifications, so we can, both per channel and at-large, tell Twitch which days of the week, or which times of day to avoid sending us notifications, so we can maintain those periods when we need to focus on something else without sacrificing our ability to know when our favorite streamer is going live during the time we can watch.