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A majority of ads on web and TV apps should now have normalized sound. We are still continuing the work on this and will update the status again when it is fully complete!
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SenyorM
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Twitch, please address this. I watch streams at work. When I suddenly get ads, which are dramatically louder than the stream content, I am driven to (a) mute the ads or (b) stop watching completely. Also, you're required to normalize ad volume by law: https://www.fcc.gov/media/policy/loud-commercials
I'm thinking this decision wasn't made by a designer, because designers understand the user experience. This decision was likely made by someone other than a designer, a manager perhaps, or someone in marketing, i.e. someone who doesn't use Twitch regularly and does not understand the user experience for the past decade plus. The viewer count is not important to me. The streamer name? I already know, I clicked on it. The Category? I already know. None of this needs to be at the top. Then there's an option to expand the top bar, BLOCKING THE STREAM, to see the tags. That's an insane idea, blocking the video, the thing people are here to see. Text-video-text doesn't work. Video-text works. Consolidate all that text below the video, just like it used to be.