Twitch: Live Streaming

I’m older so I could have gotten in on streaming from its roots. I should have. The game is a foot but it’s different. I was forced to put limits on my chat box day one. I had viewers that first day we were chatting having fun and it felt good. Then I was harassed during this interaction by individuals who were not interested in me playing games. All they wanted was a quick buck. I’ve seen my fair share of Ponzi schemes ,However the interruptions ran off my few viewers dashing my progress with possible followers my first day. Now when I see a flicker of a new viewer vanish as fast as they clicked - It’s because they can’t chat. It’s a hallow moment knowing that the 6 total viewers you have were only there to harass your channel. Worse is there is a group of people that just pop in random channels and will only follow you if they can talk to you get a feel for your personality ect. They don’t want to go through hoops to even have to talk to you. Blocking non subscribers doesn’t stop them. They just do the hoops then dump your subscribtion soon as they spew verbal vomit all over your channel. It’s just a shame that monetization draws the attention of vultures. Also I’ll figure it out “I are smart” ,but the algorithm it’s a trick to navigate.

Don’t get me wrong, I would chose this app over all the other imitations out there, especially for streaming something I like in the background when doing something or nothing. But what I really get frustrated about with the app, is the new “feed” feature being designated as the first thing you see when opening the app. To which that just closes out the stream I already wanted to watch when it’s pop up banner comes across my screen. I was wondering if, in the next update installment, you allow the users of the mobile app version, to switch around the different settings when opening the app. So that their are less-no frustrations when choosing if you want to watch the feed of any streamer you follow, or allow the same settings as how they were before the “Feed” setting was added. Since it is a mildly annoying thing to have to open up the app and see a feed you don’t want to, at that moment, see and have to switch to something like following or browse, etc. to find the stream you want. Since feed, might not have what you are interested to watch at that moment in time. But it will automatically cancel out the stream you do want to watch when tapping the banner pop up and it opens the app, because it doesn’t know how to handle both at once popping up. Sorry for the rant, it just gets annoying to me when this situation happens since the new update happened. Thanks for hearing me and I hope you, and the company employees/employers have a great week.

Earlier this month, the watch streaks feature has stopped working properly in the app. Streaks don’t display or get registered when watching in-app, requiring users to watch streams, clips and VODs on the desktop site to update them. (For this reason, I’ve lost streaks for most of the streamers I watch, if no eligible clips to recover a streak are on a channel or I didn’t visit the site to recover the streaks within the 24-hour window.) Streak notifications informing users of missed streams also don’t appear in-app (except in sparse cases), resulting in users risking losing streaks that reset without notice, especially because of the in-app streak registry glitch. Other issues with the app have cropped up that haven’t been resolved. Since February, the iOS/iPadOS app has had glitches with player controls and chat refreshes. When resetting WiFi or cell service while watching a stream, chat gets stuck in a buffer that prevents typing in messages, even while the chat stream updates. Player controls and stream descriptions also fail to generate when tapped at times, especially when tiled with another app or after tapping the channel points, bits and emotes tabs. Those three tabs also get stuck when trying to close them, requiring multiple tries to get those menus closed. I’ve filed support tickets regarding these issues, but they don’t seem to be getting received by support staff. I just get automated emails giving tips that don’t address or fix the problem.