Hey guys, I had my 3rd boost on Twitch. Our community completed the goal and the boost started not too long after, but it lasted a lot longer this time which is awesome! Now, I've been doing some research on how people will see the channel. My community tried looking for me in "The channels we think you'll like" section and I wasn't there. I was only visible when community members either logged out or used incognito mode. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not. I think most people are logged in, if they have an account, when they watch twitch so I wouldn't show up in that section for them because that "area" on Twitch is based off of who you already watch. Just a heads up =) Thanks for everything!

Presently, you can stop redemptions either because of a cooldown or because of a redemption limit. I think an option can be provided that's a middle of the road solution to let the community still redeem points in spurts without overwhelming a streamer.

And that option would be "Redemption limit within timespan" That is, you can set a timespan, and also set a redemption limit, and that would allow you to control how many redemptions take place over the course of a stream!

For example, say you set a redemption to 5 redeems within 5 minutes, that means that, if within a 5 minute span, people redeem a reward 5 times, there will be 5 minutes until redemptions can start again.

It should be a rolling count too. So if, in the previous example, 3 redemptions happened back-to-back, and then 3 minutes later, 2 more redemptions happen, it should then hit its limit, but not for the full 5 minutes! That's because after 2 more minutes, the first 3 redemptions would expire, and now there will be 3 redemptions remaining in the rolling timespan for more redemptions to take place!

I am a big fan of channel points, but I believe the interface makes it difficult for my viewers to understand all of the options that are available to them. A big contributing factor is the way that the rewards list is laid out - the rewards buttons are very samey, and a lot of the button is dedicated to empty space. I believe that by allowing streamers to to customize the rewards panel further, by applying background images and reformatting buttons to display as a vertical list, it will be easier for users to find the rewards they want.

I've done a mock-up of potential layouts, demonstrating how these features could be applied on the user-facing side: https://imgur.com/a/HWCLiB6

Allow streamers to customize the background of the reward buttons, not just the icon, and make the icon optional. Right now the reward redemption buttons look very plain and too similar to one-another because they're just solid-colored shapes with tons of blank space. I would love to use an image to cover the entire body of the reward button, not just a small icon in the center. Not only would this allow the rewards to be more visually distinct from one-another, but it could be used to make cool visuals by combining the background and icon (i.e., a reward called "Choose what OW hero I play" could have an Overwatch icon with a blurred screenshot of Hanamura as the background).