I just noticed the recent changes to people setting raids after a stream how the requirement is now pushed to minimum of 5 viewers and over. I have to say this in REALLY bad, because this hurts smaller streamers who might not have that many viewers watching their channel, only to see their own raids turn into hosts instead. This essentially cripples streamers ability to be noticed when they raid someone after finishing a stream, it was already bad enough when you crippled it so that people can't raid/host channels from 1 viewer, which is fine I guess, but to change the requirement to 5 viewers is bad overall.

I want to recognise the people who raid into me even if their viewership isn't that big, I don't want to see someone just show up as a host to my streams when they set a raid. it just makes their raids seem less significant. This is something that needs to be reverted to how it was before.

I keep seeing stupid changes like these being made on Twitch that make no sense at all without any careful consideration of what it ends up doing to streamers as a result. Case in point like how you were gonna force mid-roll ads on streams, and immediately people pointed out how bad that is.

Currently the Raid Channel button on the Creator Dashboard only lists live channels that the streamer is following. This is just helping to make the large channels larger and gain more viewers/followers, while smaller channels with not as many followers get left behind. There should be an option for small streamers (say, about 50 or less concurrent viewers) to "opt in" for discovery so they have a chance to be listed as a "suggested streamer" when a streamer clicks that Raid Channel button.

Just going to note this here, too: About 90% of the streamers I follow and whose content I frequently watch are streamers who I discovered via a raid from another streamer. The few others are mostly just IRL friends, a very small minority. Having at least a decent chance at being raided by a streamer with a lot of viewers would help immensely with providing discoverability for small streamers.

We’re experimenting with a new way to show creators insights about their chat performance. Users with access to the experiment will see a new “When did I get the most reactions in chat?” panel on their Stream Summary page. Creators can quickly identify spikes and dips in engagement and watch the correlating time stamp of the VOD to understand what may have caused those fluctuations. We hope this tool helps creators better understand behaviors that engage their community and spot opportunities to drive more magic in chat.

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Deciding what categories to stream in can be challenging, especially for smaller creators trying to reach new viewers. We’re experimenting with a new panel on Stream Summary to show categories with a favorable viewer to channel ratio that may increase your chance of being discovered. Creators randomly selected to be in the experiment will see this panel on their Stream Summary page in the Creator Dashboard.

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Can we have the the labels back for what each button is in the Quick Actions? The large icon are honestly childish and worthless. I have never been able to identify the actions by the logos and honestly reading a 2-3 word title on each button is way faster than hovering over each button to figure out what they do. Yet another update that makes things less user friendly aka more cumbersome.

If for whatever reason folks what the stupid large icons instead of a descriptive title and there at least be an option to choose between the 2?

Long story short can we revert back to the old icons for the quick actions, the ones with a title underneath them?

Here's an idea: maybe don't make your "Introducing Creator Chat Highlights" ad brick the whole dang page? That would be great, thanks. It's been the better part of a week and every time I try to check my Stream Manager page that stupid ad is blocking the whole page from being used. Yes, I did all the entry-level attempts to fix the issue; no, none of them worked; and no, no one from Twitch seems to be bothered with answering the people who drive the platform and want to create content.

Oh, and a 70/30 split for the creators while we're at it. It's long overdue and more than fair, considering Amazon owns you.