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corbygray528
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I don't know how actively the twitch mobile app developers are watching this thread, but since I can't find a bug report area anywhere in the app...
I experienced today my mobile app switching from one channel to another on its own, while I was in chat only mode... Just abruptly I was in a totally different chat. Had I not been looking at it at the moment it would be VERY easy for me to start typing in it and send a message thinking I was in the one I actually joined. I assume it's related to the same bug that causes the streams to randomly change, but I'm worried to allow my twitch app to update anyway because I'm afraid you'll remove the old layout from tablet view, which is currently the only way it's tolerable.
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I'm just going to run through their patch notes so that they have my voice on this.
What we’re working on now:
- Adding more metadata to the following drawer, like stream titles and thumbnails
---Excellent! This is a great improvement to what you currently have and will be helpful.- Making it easier to access your followed content in the feed. We may experiment with a following feed or adding filters to your feed
--- Sounds good, though I question the need for it to be a "feed" at all.
- Letting you open your following drawer without leaving the current stream you’re watching
--- Good, seems like a good thing to address and repair
- Delivering vertical video in the feed
--- ...Who is asking for this? What vertical video? I've never seen a portrait oriented stream on twitch. This seems, forgive my lack of tact with this, stupid. If you are going to continue forcing the feed onto us, could you allow us to use the feed in landscape mode so that the streams in the feed actually use the screen space of our phones?
- Bringing “continue watching” back to the mobile app"
---This would be amazing and a huge help. I've currently given up on watching not-live content on the phone because it's so awful to navigate.
I'm part appreciative of the things you're looking to fix now, and partly still completely blindsided by what these changes show Twitch management thinks Twitch the platform is. Vertical video, vertical scrolling feeds, AUTO scrolling feeds, followed channels shoved in a corner out of sight, non followed channels shoved in your face...none of this describes what Twitch as a platform has been. The content these features exist for is not content that made twitch what it is. I'm not needing a feed to flip between multi-hour streams. If the content these features are aimed for is what twitch is trying to become, I worry Twitch management has a myopic view of the content platform landscape and are trying to forcefully implement features from a platform they aren't. Pushing Twitch in an asinine direction solely for the sake of change.
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Genuinely one of the worst changes I've seen recently. Why on earth are you forcing a portrait oriented layout for an app that features landscape oriented content? Why is it not possible to see a "continue watching" section anymore? Why is the following list in a completely random order? Why can't we see stream titles for followed channels until we start watching them? This entire "feed" layout was perfectly fine how it was, existing in its own tab on the old interface. Actively removing features to push a design that makes content harder to access seems like a bad idea. Heck, I'd even just take you putting in a separate "following" tab to the app that shows the old home interface (followed channels with thumbnails and titles, featured clips from people you follow, and continue watching section)
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The newest update gets most of the way there, but PLEASE do something about clips. They're unwatchable. Forced into a portrait layout with a zoomed/cropped image filling the screen? That's a terrible way to handle clips on a platform full of landscape oriented content. Also, put the featured clips section back into the following page for clips featured from the creators we follow. I don't want to scroll through dozens of clips from people I don't know and don't care to watch to eventually stumble across the clips of the people I do watch. I have nothing against there being a feed to scroll through clips, but that being the only way to see your followed channels recently featured clips aside from going to each channel individually is crazy.