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The 7/31/24 update is just unpleasant. It's clearly inspired by the format used by Tiktok and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Twitch isn't a short form video website and the main UI format for the app shouldn't be tailored as such.
It is actively worse for me and I imagine the majority of people that use the app daily. The new "main" page at the very least should simply be a separate tab at most (personally I don't think it's good to have at all).
The follow list is very unfriendly and not sorted in any way that's actually pleasant. If I'm correct I believe it's sorted from most to least view time? I can see why you'd *think* that is a useful way to list the channels but it's very much not. It is actively less informative of the content the streams are currently showing. There's no preview, no stream title, and only gives the game they're playing (which is great, except for when that's wrong/not accurate due to any number of reasons).
The "live/clip" page should not be the main page for this app. I do not want to "scroll" through random channels, if anything, I'd want to scroll through my follow list. And even then the previous way was far more user friendly, informative, and over all enjoyable. At a glance/mild swipe up or down who was live, what was being played, and required little time to decipher more if I needed to read to figure out what game it actually way/ what the topic of conversation was planned (i.e streamers like Hasan who tend to list the days planned topics).
I do not and will not ever care or want to scroll through "clips" especially of random people I don't watch. If I want that kind of content, I'll go to tiktok, I want my twitch app to be my twitch app. After all, it's why I've been using it for years over just watching on twitch through a mobile browser which is now how I will likely be consuming my twitch content.
I will add this update isn't all bad. The browse tab is nicer and I prefer it over the previous version (though admittedly I don't/haven't used it very often). The Activity tab is almost much more enjoyable and an upgrade to the app. The profile tab is also a lovely addition/change. And I have no comment on the "go live" feature as I am not a content creator.
So, as a tl/dr: The update's main feature (the home tab) is offensive enough that I will be consuming twitch via my mobile browser until it's either reverted or changed despite the other tabs being genuinely better than before.
I will conclude with a suggestion so that I'm not just adding a complaint/critique but a constructive one.
If you must have the tiktok style scroll through content feature, I highly recommend you move it from home to the "browse tab" and place it as an option next to Categories and Live channels where it should have been placed to begin with and bring back the old Home page with my default following list sorted in the fashion that it was before.