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70/30 should be the standard cut to complete with the likes of YouTube and Facebook when it comes to revenue shares. Twitch can still operate fine on a 70/30 cut, as evident by both Facebook and YouTube. I'd still be comfortable with the $100 payout threshold. However having a slider control to choose a payout threshold would probably be nice, with base minimum of $30-$50 for those who want a lower payout threshold less than $100.

I would much prefer 70-80% split over the 50% split. The amount of hours I put in to streaming, should be just as rewarding for me as it is for Twitch. We all should have a say in what our splits are, instead of being presented with a predetermined split amount. Also to make it even worth the ad revenue from playing ads on stream, increase the CPM rate to at least $5-$10 for ads, the $3.50 USD CPM rate is far too low, if compared to YouTube's Cost per 1000 impressions (CPM) = $0.0035 x 1000 = $3.50 it's somewhat similar, but should Twitch be competitive to what YouTube offers and offer more for CPM rates for Live content, you'll be doing pretty good deal for everyone, because you're not just doing pre-recorded content, it's real-time content, and it's not like VODs stick around for long on Twitch either way, because they get deleted after 45 days, and have the option of exporting them after 24 hours. If you're running 8-15 or 24+ hour streams and you run 30 second or 2 minute ad every hour, you should be rewarded more as such, especially when you got Pre-Roll Ads that can be set to run at set intervals of your choosing.

I certainly don't mind the minimum payout from Twitch being $100, because it feels like it actually means you've worked hard for it. It would be weird to me to get payouts every $10 or $20 a month.

It's stupid that Twitch had to go and disable Auto-Hosts for set individuals AND Teams. It needs to be brought back and enabled again. I'm sick of not being able to have Auto-Host work for teams to autohost other people in the team on my channel. This was such a decent feature, it was never broken, it just worked, but then you go and disable it like it was broken.

Autohost benefits a lot of people, especially if they're in a team, it helps people within teams find new people to watch and grants a lot of exposure to people they may not of seen before. -- Now yes granted when you are part of a team you are automatically followed to everyone within the team (but not always), if there's many people part of the team you are in. It helps everyone within the team find new people to raid to and watch.

Viewer Count should be the same number of people in chat, because thats what it should be, even if someone isn't chatting, they should be included, unless of course they are a bot account then they can be excluded if they're verified through Twitch ie; Streamlabs, StreamElements, Nightbot, etc...

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.

With the option of being able to set Disconnect Protection from the Streamer Dashboard settings, it would be nice if streamers could upload their own custom temporary video when they accidentally fall offline unexpectedly while streaming.

Keep it a short looping 12s 720p or 1080p temporary video for when streamer gets disconnected.

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.