While this might seems a good idea, typeset characters can be encoded to bypass this.

Literally nobody asked for this to be removed. This is yet another dumb decision to remove something that caused no inconvenience to anyone.

I'm quite glad this post blew up, and people are 100% with smaller streamers with so much positive feedback, and I hope Twitch does listen and actually roll this stupid decision back. They don't need to intervene with how many people are in raids/hosts notification feeds as that can all be done on the Streamer's side with their Alert Notifications by setting the minimum for their alerts, these features are already available in Streamlabs, Streamelements, Muxy, Nightbot, Moobot, and many others, it doesn't need to be enforced on Twitch's end.

For everyone else who sees this post, please do reshare it, and upvote it, because this severely impacts smaller streamers.

I'm not a fan of the current way Twitch has it setup for Mature Streams that are marked for +18 Mature, a click of a button shouldn't just automatically grant whoever to watch those types of streams, and so what I propose is a Age Verification system to verify those users are of age before being allowed to watch those streams by using a Digital ID Age Verification system. This would not only properly protect minors and prevent them from watching stuff they shouldn't, but also adult streamers as well.

A simple age verification check would make it so that people who are allowed to watch mature content are allowed, and those who aren't are kept out, clicking a button on a stream when warned about mature content doesn't seem like enough effort, and somewhat lazy. But it should be a one-time verification thing that ties with the users account after verifying their age. And no it's not private sensitive information that will be shown or available to streamers themselves, but only by Twitch itself and the ID system who can only see this information. The ID system would also have to make checks that they're verifying a real person and not a generated bot in order to fool the system with fake information.

There are third-party ID verification systems like Passbase which can automate ID verification and age verification process.

I highly recommend this, if we streamers can just import a list of names to ban from the channel, preferably in JSON format to make it easier when importing names from a list it would make a huge difference and effort to thwarting problem users who come in mass to troll raid.

The reason I recommend JSON format is so that when you import a list of names to be banned, you can also include the ban reasons alongside those names you're importing, and it's a very easy clean way of doing things. ie;

{
"username": "john_doe123",
"ban_reason": "Bot spam"

}

Here's a better fix to the issue that still persists. Temporary fix to add to Stylus or GreaseMonkey.

.channel-root + .persistent-player[style] {
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
max-width: calc(100% - 0px);
max-height: calc(100vh - 130px) !important;
overflow: hidden;
z-index: 1;
height: auto;
transition: transform 0.5s ease 0s;
transform-origin: center top;
transform: scale(1);
}

Just to iterate, I'm not a CSS wizard, I just took what I knew and applied it to that to overwrite the site's default using a browser extension. Maybe Twitch can apply this as a full proper fix? since the person who wrote the code before isn't good enough, and uses far too many `!important` elements to their CSS code which is really unnecessary, because it's like you're trying to compensate for something which overrides previously defined elements for objects on the page.

bump this idea up

They had this feature before, but it never worked because Twitter kept changing it's API and broke it.