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Hey guys! We really appreciate the feedback that has been brought forth in this thread and just wanted to update you a little bit on what is going on.
This change was originally made to guard against raid bot attacks. While smaller raids are currently viewable in activity feed in the dashboard, we are working on a solution that treats raids equally while guarding against abuse tactics.
https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/1313975539682684929
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The idea and execution that Twitch thinks that it is alright to disable all Raids/Host showing up if they had less than 5 viewers going to raid is ludicrous. There are 4 million Twitch Streamers. All of which support Twitch and put more money in their pockets but, they (Twitch) only care for those who are Partnered. Out of that 4 million that's roughly 250,000 streamers.
For the rest of the 3.8 million streamers, they are neglected by Twitch. Just because they aren't bringing in thousands or millions into the business does not mean they don't matter. How incredibly disheartening is it when you take the active decision to raid another content creator similar to you and it doesn't even show up in the stream in the alert box. It discourages the streamers and viewers to support a platform that does not support it's large majority of traffic.
Twitch, I believe, have already implemented a function where you can turn off raid alerts and host alerts if you are being botted in any of these functions. Their excuse of "bots" isn't viable. Botting channels tend to happen to bigger streamers who inevitably have that function enabled so it doesn't affect them. Should it happen to a "smaller" streamer then they also have that function ready at hand to use. Twitch are just looking for excuses to not support the same people who support them and keep them in their business.
There is no real, exceptional and understandable reason to turn off raid and host alerts for streamers who bring under 5 viewers. ANY SUPPORT NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL IS STILL SUPPORT.