With recent changes to the Twitch channel interface on desktop browser, not only is chat hidden by default when opening the channel, but users can be stuck having chat hidden with no way to get it back easily.

If the user changes their window dimensions in such a way as to prompt Twitch to hide chat, they cannot bring it back without first stretching the window to be wide enough that Twitch deigns to display the "Expand" control at the edge of the page to unhide chat.

With recent changes, this control may not be accessible on windows displayed on Portrait-oriented monitors (e.g. 1200x1920, where a monitor is rotated vertically in Portrait orientation). This happens to me on Firefox with monitors in portrait --- I can only get chat back by first moving the window to a Landscape-oriented display and maximizing the window there, before moving it back.

The last few sets of interface changes have started adding a lot of frustrating behaviour for desktop users, but this one is particularly problematic as you can't undo the loss of chat in some scenarios.

I'm a streamer on this platform, and have been for quite a few years. I would like to talk about some issues that I have with the new code of conduct of community guidelines if you would give me the chance, and that would be the dress code here on twitch.

Twitch is a platform for all who wish to voice their opinions, play games, or provide any sort of entertainment, and I'm all for supporting that. However, there is an on-going problem that I am noticing every day, and it's getting worse. I am a female streamer on twitch. I work hard to get viewers, I advertise myself, and I always try to be as engaging as possible. However what really bothers me is this dress code, or rather, the lack of enforcing of this dress code.

There are other female streamers on this platform, and that is a great thing to have for diversity of all streamers, but what is not okay is the fact that twitch is becoming more of an "adult" streaming site. What do I mean by this? Quite simply here. In the just chatting sections, everyday, I find other female streamers who are skyrocketing to partnership, and all of their streams revolve around sexually suggestive attire, and selling lewd snap chats for subscriptions on twitch. And it's working too well.

This kind of content is not the reason why I stream on twitch, and quite frankly it should not be allowed. Females streamers who do this are actively abusing the system by selling their bodies essentially for views, subscriptions, followers, and more. You state in your code of conduct rules that there is no under boob showing allowed, yet I see many streamers doing this, and have reported videos of violators many of times, to see nothing done about it. You state there are no ****** cams, yet there are videos of female streamers spreading their legs and putting them behind their heads to give a full on view of that region, and yet nothing has been done about it, after being reported multiple times on multiple incidents, of multiple days.

There are many new up-and-coming female streamers who are doing this, who are easily getting partnered through staying heavily grey, or borderline breaking the code of conduct rules, especially the new community guidelines that twitch has recently updated. Cleavage should be covered up. There shouldn't be windows to your chest. There shouldn't be cameras pointed at certain regions of your body that are used for ****** purposes. There has been female streamers who are actively taking their breasts out on stream for followers, and only take a 3 day suspension, but continue to grow and unlock affiliate and partnership.

What I also don't get is how body painting streamers are allowed to stream topless, and it's considered "art" but they paint sexually suggestive attire on their bodies, and yet STILL people are getting banned for drawing 2D female anatomy pictures, and being suspended without drawing nipples on these 2D Characters.

I hope you understand this, and the reason why I bring this up, is because AS a female streamer, It hurts us who do not do this. It makes us all look bad. In fact, a lot of the community now EXPECTS us to follow these examples. Every time I advertise my twitch now and state that I am female, the first question I always get is if I have an onlyfans, or do I sell my pictures on snap chat, or if I'm a "***** streamer", or the classic "feet pics/bath water".

All these derogatory remarks and harassment via my chat all because of stuff like this. It's to the point where it's driving me away from wanting to stream on twitch. What's worse, is that these streamers that I am actively reporting, are showing up in my recommendation feeds. It's a constant reminder that lewd streaming is overcoming the platform and is expected of us females in order for us to grow, and that's not the mindset I wish to take part in on twitch.

I would like this to be addressed. I hope you read this and can help supply this information, or at least have this topic discussed and revisited, as I feel it would do much better to this platform.

~Sincerly, A concerned female streamer.

Many streamers like myself are having their streams muted for songs that are embedded in games. Furthermore, since CW strikes are at the forefront of the majority of streamers, automatically muting streams for licensed music (the guild have acquired said licenses) creates more "paperwork" than necessary.

While I do agree with banning CW music without proper licensing, muting audio and then having to justify constantly for EVERY stream is unnecessary. BMI and others have API callbacks available to moderate for said CW music.

For music not from these companies, but under a license, a system should be in place where the digital license should be uploaded prior to streaming so the system can reasonably moderate for non-licensed music use. Furthermore, Twitch should have a system that differentiates music embedded in games (i.e. acquire information from game developers) and those being streamed by Spotify or other streaming services.

I suggest adding a new chat mode that allows only users with "permission to talk" to send messages to a chat; call it a "VIP-Only Chat" session, for example /viponly.

This would allow creating limited chats that not every single subscriber is allowed to join in on, which could be very useful if there are too many participants in the chat to carry out a discussion with readable interaction between chatters.

But also allow moderators to also give one user or a few users permission to speak that would allow others to speak that does not have the limitations of the /vip command where only a small number of VIPs are allowed by the system, and only the broadcaster can add/remove.

Being able to grant permission to speak individually would allow channels to have large events including chat in the event but structure and organize the chat sessions more, if they like, in order to cut out 99% of the unrelated messages, random chatter etc, and make it more feasible to showcase interesting discussions.

Moderators should then have access to a command which can grant or remove permission to speak. For example, /voice username /unvoice username
/unvoice all

Possibly with an optional time limit and reason to be sent to the user:

For example /voice username 10m Ok, username, you have the floor.

I would suggest that /voice command also allow such user to speak in Subscriber-Only or Follower-only chat regardless of other user status.

Channels holding such an event might have the people who will talk in chat arranged ahead of time with a prior agreement to the rules, or it might be audience members who joined an external queue chosen in order or randomly, or people that made a request through an outside system or authorized chatbot to be reviewed by moderators before granting permission to chat, etc.

. Commenting Anti Abuse

-channel owner MAC Blocking controls
: platforms should allow channel owners to have controls, where thy can see username to MAC address allowing them to block/unblock accounts-MAC Pairs.

-Protected Chat
Channel who opt-in to have their chat protected,will have the controls to approve/revoke the user-MAC Pair globally and the platform would remember the decisions, so channel owners wouldn’t have to approved after each stream.

-Highlight Known Banned Accounts
Accounts who have been allowed back from a previous Platform ban or who have been channel banned from another channel should be highlighted in the chat for a certain time (Probation). Also their account to MAC should be highlighted in MAC banning controls.

-Mod Bots MAC Banning Controls
Bots should get access to MAC banning controls so thy could auto ban offending accounts once bots are stable enough to do so.

-Platform MAC Banning
When a users MAC has a certain amount of Channel Bans then the platform will investigate and if warranted (racism,sexism,homophobia) not general rudeness the platform would ban the user-MAC or user-device ID pair for certain amount of time. after a certain amount of repeat offensives then a permanent platform ban would be made.

-Channel Owner Anti Abuse

-Voice Analyzers auto-reporting
Platforms would use voice Analyzers to auto report Certain keywords that are (racist,sexist,homophobic) and if not a false positive (after it is investigated by humans). then the content would be removed. And the user will be warned a certain amount of times then MAC/Device ID banned a certain amount of times,then Permanent Platform banned.

-Manual Reporting
Same as the Voice Analyzers auto-reporting
But by users manually reporting the channel.

Have a slow mode for subscribers.

There is a possibility for partners to activate a setting in which all subs are immune to slow mode.

My idea is that there are two different slow modes, one for all users (the one that already exists) and one for subs. My idea is that both are controlled either by chat commands or from mod view.

This would be useful if you would like to give the Subscribers who are supporting you another benefit, also, as they're paying (or supporting with Prime) they probably are less likely to spam or disobey rules.

Thanks for your time!

Recently there was a change in the permaban system so when you permaban a person he can't see chat anymore. I understand that this is added to prevent harassment and stalking, but I think it's not fair, what does his typing something bad in chat has with his reading the chat? If he violated rules by typing something inappropriate, I just ban him from typing, that's only fair, but I don't want to ban him from reading. It's not only unfair but also encourages people to create alternative accounts to be able to read chat again while they could stay on their original account if they could still read chat even without typing anything.

It wouldn't be a problem if streamers had the ability to timeout viewers for any amount of time, like instead of permabanning someone you just timeout him for 10 years or so (it would be great meme material also), but you can't timeout viewer for more than 2 weeks, and there's a huge gap between 2 week suspension from typing in chat and permabanning the person. Imagine if there was no options between 2 weeks in prison and a life sentence in real life.

So, my suggestion is - you should either allow the streamer to choose if he wants to ban the user from viewing chat when permabanning him, or allow the streamer to timeout viewers for any amount of time, or just revive old /ban in form of /timeout forever.