Give better Whisper security controls, or give us the option to just turn them off.
Whispers are now completely broken thanks to required phone verification!
Twitch now requires phone verification to send a whisper to anyone, regardless of previous whisper history, or anything else logical.
Since phone verification is never going to happen for me, I can never reply to any whisper I receive now.
And I cannot turn whispers off.
So, people keep whispering me to get help with things, and I have no way to tell them I can't even reply to them.
If Twitch is not going to allow some sort of other account verification, or security settings, then Twitch should give us the option to just turn whispers OFF completely to stop the horrible user experience.
The only option now is to "Block whispers from strangers" which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Here's the description for "Block from strangers" -> "Block whispers from strangers unless you whisper them first. A stranger is anyone who is NOT: someone you follow, someone you subscribe to, one of your mods, or one of your editors."
Even with this setting on, I still get whispers from people who then get angry I haven't replied. And I have no way to contact them to say I can't even reply.
Horrible, horrible UX.