There are a few great cooldown options for Channel Points redemptions, however I think it'd be fantastic if we could possibly have an option for an "Only available after stream has been online for X minutes/hours" as a possible cooldown option too.

As an example I have a limited redemption to give my Doggo a treat, but if this gets redeemed right at the very VERY start of the stream, people that don't arrive at the very start miss out - and if I say 'thanks for the redemption, I'll do that later' it kinda feels rude to the redeemer, they may not be there later, and sort of defeats the purpose of having the message highlight and everything alongside it.

Seeing as the minute/hour cooldown options are there already, I feel like a cooldown on it being available from the start could be pretty good :)

(I'm reposting this because it was removed and added as a comment to another post that was asking for a completely different feature)

So I'm no expert in this sort of thing, so don't crucify me if there's any big problems with the idea but.

Would there be any scope in making channel points more valuable, so that you could spend them on actual things - perhaps even a twitch browser shop where you could buy various cosmetics to enhance your name or badges, emotes too, or directly support your favourite streamers by buying products they offer with channel points too.

I see this as having benefits for all parties, that's streamers, twitch and viewers too.

Streamers would have more concurrent viewers because people would be grinding channel points, twitch could take a cut from any items sold in the shop via channel points, and viewers would get cool items or cosmetics as a reward for their dedicated viewing.

As an avid user of twitch I get quite addicted to watching my channel points go up as I invest time into hanging out on my favourite streams.

I would have thought you'd have to limit predictions in some way as that can massive inflate people's points, or dump them, so there would be ways to abuse that if you wanted to. A reset, or a "fresh start" of channel points would also probably be needed if you wanted to participate in the system, you could just have it as a setting on a twitch user's profile such as "display all time channel points / v.2 channel points). I've specified that part because I'm sure a lot of people are proud of their current channel points and wouldn't want to see them wiped. Without the new era of channel points people, or day I say, bots that had already accumulated thousands of channel points over the years could dominate the shop with purchases.

For this to actually have a monetary value would it be possible to make channel points a crypto currency? You could grind a small amount by watching, but by predictions and spending your own money in the shop you could boost your points if you wanted too. I really don't know enough about crypto to speculate further about that, but just an idea. I'm sure twitch could have advertisements on the shop too.

Anyway, thanks for reading, all feedback is welcome.

A streamer I follow has this thing he does rarely where we establish "teams" behind different characters to show our support for them. Normally he has us change our user names to specific colors in order to show support, but a lot of the viewers dont like having to reset their color later so they dont participate.

Is there any way we could have a badge after the name, or if not possible than replacing a badge like the cheer badge, with some basic color badges, even if just circles or squares? I am thinking just a simple symbol like ♦, ♥, ☻, or ♪, and then just color it a solid color. If the colors can be chosen by the streamer it would allow a lot more interactivity with the chat than currently available.

Personally I think its a pain in the butt to edit my channel points. I would love to see something similar to the emote library but for channel points. A colour library, image library and a preview. For some creators scrolling through lengthy lists of their channel points can be difficult to make visually appealing. some creators (like myself) take pride in cohesive branding across all of my platforms. Meaning I have colour coded branding and have taken HOURS to edit my points.

Allowing creators to preview and save a colour library and image library to drag and drop onto their channel points would make this amazing feature EVEN better and more manageable.

Channel points are great, but I miss one thing. I think that adding a time limit for one stream participant will significantly diversify the possibilities of points. I am annoyed when one person overuses an option at a time (e.g. he buys a drink of water several times), but if I could limit the possibility to e.g. 2 times an hour, it would make it much easier for me and maybe it would increase my involvement on the stream. in the fact that people specially colluded to buy such activities massively, because it increases their involvement and is a great thing