It would be useful (and user friendly) to have a way for those who typically stream in multiple diverse categories to create tag profiles, so that when they switch categories it automatically updates (removes / adds) tags they've preselected for that category.

IE I stream games & Just Chatting / Crafters & Makers. For the Just Chatting / Crafters & Makers streams I typically use crafting, resin and a couple other related tags. But when I'm streaming games I don't. 90% of the time I remember to pull the craft related tags for gaming streams or add them for the crafting streams but it would be nice to not have to remember. Instead to be able to preselect it and safe it as a "Tag Profile" (or whatever) so it auto changes and updates for me in case I'm having a forgetful day. That way I'm not telling people I have drops enabled when I'm casting resin key chains...

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.

I would like an option that "Turns Off" the showing of how many Raiders have been brought in

I feel like putting a number of viewers to a Raid diminishes the Gesture.

Raiding someone with your community is an incredible gesture, with 10 or 10000 raiders. Having the option of turning off the display of how many Raiders are brought in would reinforce the strength of the gesture

Also, in some occasions ppl can be "embarrassed" to Raid if they feel their community aren't big enough

Perhaps we could have it set up where it shows the viewer in the streamer dashboard but not in the chat

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.

Suggestions are generated by accumulating hour watched and hour broadcast data for the previous week for each category, and removing outliers like large partners who throw off the distribution. We’ll continue to make changes and refine our suggestions over time as we learn more about how this helps creators grow. We look forward to hearing your feedback about how we can improve this feature! Learn more here: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/stream-summary#experiment

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.

When chat is moving fast, it can be hard to grab the right message quickly to perform a timeout/ban, especially in the case of 'hate raids' or other troll action.

I'd like to see a 'Recent Chatters' listing panel, just the usernames, along with purge/timeout/ban buttons. Preferably configurable both with number of names, how long they stay before they 'fall off', and how many columns, especially for use with tablets/phones to allow quick access to action without alt-tabbing.

Preferably a list that updates in-place rather than scrolls, to avoid trying to click/tap on a name, only to have it move at the last second.

So if a streamer sets up a recent-chatter list with a max of 10, it would list the next 10 individual usernames (not currently on the list somewhere) to send a chat message, and on the 11th would wrap back to the top and overwrite 1, 12 would overwrite 2, and so on.

It would also be handy to have the background of the most-recent name be highlighted in a different color, to at-a-glance locate on the list where the last new chatter was updated.

An optional 'are you sure X is the right person?' confirmation dialog would also be appreciated, with the option to not-show (preferably separate ones for purge/timeout/ban, as I wouldn't personally want one on quick purges, but definitely WOULD for bans).

So, this has been happening a lot in the past already, but now it's a bigger problem since you can't follow to the hosted channel.
I get left behind in raids. I don't see the raid notification on channels and when I realize there's already raid timer going on, refresh takes too much time and I'm left behind. If I stay on channel, it just goes offline and leaves me there (possibly watching the streamer since they don't always turn off their stream).
I asked about this on discord and at least one other person has had this same problem.
It's kinda problematic to begin with, but there's also that side of privacy when the streamer doesn't know the stream is still kinda on.

until now when a streamer raided a channel it would be hosted too, so if you arrived late or the raid failed for you(happens every time on mobile when watching/listening in the background) you could hit the join button on the hosted channel.
with hosted channels, this is now gone.
the hosting system is reduced to just suggested channels.

if a raid fails or if your arrive late to a stream there is now no way to even see who got raided and no way to join in unless you happen to remember the exact name of who got raided.

an easy fix for this is to be able to see the just raided stream in a channel's carousel, either as suggested channel or a separate "just raided" card, at least until that stream ends.