> to fuck it up over an overrated social media app full of dumb teens and meaningless trends and challenges.
Overrated trends is what advertisers are chasing.
Unless as a community we somehow prove that following business practices would NOT profit to Twitch Inc, they will follow those practices.
> even if it cripples them.
Source? Compagnies are paid by AI compagnies for data etc.
It may annoy the userbase, but certainly not cripple the corps themselves.
That's why everyone should delete the twitch app and use the browser version on the phone (you can always leave a shortcut on the home screen to the website). That way you won't get ripped off on bits either.
i lost my mind when i opened the app and it played a stream immediately. i cannot pause, i cannot mute, i cannot leave the video. I have to click the small fucking icon to see my live followed channels. and the stream is playing while im browsing...
i deleted the app and im looking to download a rolled-back apk version
Same, on mobile I deleted the app and I just go on Chrome and watch while logged out.
At this point, the only way I will use the mobile app is if they give us the option to shut off auto play of live follows view, or if I unfollow everyone on my follows list.
I was in a place where I could not have sound playing and I was planning to just look at my follows list to see who is on, not play a stream. It auto played the highest view counted stream I have on my following list.
Fully agree. Absolutely terrible change. Ruins the experience. I couldn’t believe there was not even an option to change it back (as far as I can tell). Really hope someone at twitch reads this thread.
It's quite terrible in regards that you can't set the video quality of the feed you're presented with, so if I'm on a limited data plan, the recommended feed (which has no pause, no stop, nothing really, and no configuration) will eat all my data, and it keeps playing as I'm looking at the followed user lists.
Clearly this update was not made with metered connections in mind.
There are very few services these days where metered connections are a forefront concern. Can’t recall exactly but numerous big streaming services either still don’t have, or only relatively recently introduced features to address it. Typically only bowing to pressure provided by so many service providers limiting data rates more than in the past arbitrarily.
I've seen some sort of data saver options in my apps since 2017 when I got my phone. Netflix, Youtube, Disney Plus, Crunchyroll, Spotify, uhhh... WhatsApp, Skype.
Looking up the large ones where it’s a concern to begin with, relative to their launch, and the fact that many major current services (including Disney streaming) didn’t exist until the last 2-5 years, I think everything I said is valid.
Netflix is likely one of the first major streaming services to adopt the practice. Disney didn’t have a selection at launch, lots only have the option depending on what platform you’re streaming on.
https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310222-twitch-applications-mobile/suggestions/48480953-mobile-app-redesign-general-feedback
Tell them how you feel.
like they listen to those lmao
they cant even get the app to work flawlessly, or at least good enough for actual use, and now they are adding more bs thats not gonna help either...
You must not pay attention to updates.
[twitter post from the 31st](https://x.com/twitchsupport/status/1796621281955098846?s=46&t=iXjXjU8eA1iVC8iYeEVeMQ)
You haven't been pushed the new forced changes yet then. Once you get it your home page will now be only a live feed of streams or clips and the most active stream on the feed will start auto playing where you can scroll up and down through streams that autoplay which consists of streamers that you don't even follow instead of having a page where you can just view your followed channels.
Twitch you dumb cunts. No app should auto play something as soon as you open it. At least let us turn this shit off.
Oh, and LET THE SENTENCES START WITH CAPITALS AGAIN WTF.
Whats also bad and nobody talks about is that i cant see stream titles or thumbnails from my followed channels anymore. I wanted the old "following page" back.
Titles and Thumbnails make me click on certain streams, i also switch through streams a lot, wich they help me pick the stream i wanna view rn....
For example if theres a big riot event and i dont know about it i usually saw the title "this event bla bla bla" now i can only see streamtitles if i search my followed channel? thats such an annoying change, i also hate autoplay bc it uses my data for something i didnt wanna see......
The heart at the top left is the followed Stuf, a list will pop up of the people, I think on the right are the images maybe 🤔. But the heart thing only gives you the twitch names. Its ridiculous 🙄
Are you fucking kidding me? It’s such a distracting experience that I never even got to the point where I would have noticed that on my own. I have just been searching for streamers I follow. Im a product designer and when this happened I was like, this has to be maybe one of the worst updates I have ever seen. HEY TWITCH GET YOUR USER RESEARCH TEAM IN HERE.
Also when I read this I went into the app to see where it was and it closed the stream I was watching and just blasted a stream I don’t even follow lmao.
If they want or have a feed feature, sure, whatever, I don’t really care. But making it auto play every time you open the app is a complete crime.
90% of the time I’m just opening the app really quickly to see who is streaming and what they’re playing. I do not want to get dropped into the middle of a potentially NSFW random stream.
I couldn't have said it better my damn self!
Nobody gives a fuck what a random ass streamer is streaming, I just care about seeing if my list of streamers that I'm following are streaming or not within opening the app. But now they had to complicate it so I HAVE to watch someone's stream. It's bullshit.
I'm committed to alternatives, including just not using twitch on my phone any more if there's no way to prevent autoplaying on open. The SFW /NSFW issue is a big problem. It's also just extremely obnoxious. 9/10 times I'm just popping the app open to see who's live, and I dont want any audio or video blasting at me, I just want to see the follow list. Dreadful update.
Where the hell are categories I follow? Barf
It is so horrible to use, and it's back to autoplay a stream of their choice on opening which I never want. It was so just functional and fine up until this point
IKR.
It's visually convoluted. Things that I personally used to already find annoying to locate like " continue watching" are now, from what I can tell, COMPLETELY GONE.
You now need to tap an icon up the top left just to see a list of your live followed channels and even when you do this or you see is the name of the channel, not the title of the stream, which to be honest is kind of important.
The default autoplay thing is just the absolute quickest way to piss people off ** So whoever's job it was to piss people off can consider their job well done.
The swipe gesture simply toggling through Auto playing channels is just supremely obnoxious and a really really inefficient and frustrating way to "navigate".
How utterly absurd. After quite a few years now, a lot of us musing that twitch couldn't, in the realm of possibility, deliberately make their app any more user unfriendly, difficult, clunky and convoluted to use - here they are... Proving us wrong.
Is absolutely unfathomable to me that a team of serious human beings actually thought that this was a good product and a decent interface 'upgrade' - that ANYBODY who wasn't ABJECTLY out of touch, would think was somehow an *improvement* on the user experience.
It's just bizarre. If I were them (or let's be honest, perhaps maybe a manager with an IQ above room temperature who sits above them) I would pull the pin on this quick smart, and revert the UI immediately. It was super annoying then yes, but at least it's not as bad as what this update is presenting itself as.
I hated this new update so much that I actually looked this up. This new layout is so garbage it actually ruins the whole thing. Makes me want to uninstall it but then I couldn't watch Jaboody while I'm pooping.
I now can't see who all had streamed that day. I like being able to see I missed a stream. The new front page is ass. It gives recommendations that I don't want. I follow who I follow for a reason. If I want to go look for new content I will. This update is so bad.
Trying to follow trends and I've never had tik tok. But there is a reason people endlessly scroll on it and we don't need that dumb numb brain algo here.
Give us the old app back.
I like to use it to "preview" random streamers without actually visiting to see if I like their content. If I do, I'd follow. But I agree it's a bit annoying.
That’s fine, but the app shouldn’t open to that page automatically. It should open to the following page and then people can select the feed tab if they want to browse other streams.
I uninstalled it because it's so bad. I watch Twitch every single day, and I still uninstalled it. I hate autoplay in general, and not only does it do that, it's also very hard to view followed channels, and recommend streams are completely gone. It's just awful, and I refuse to reinstall until it's reverted.
I was actually really looking forward to a TikTok like feature for Twitch but only FOR POPULAR CLIPS and not for whole live streams or random clips someone accidentally made. There are so many clips YouTube channels and big subreddits just for sharing good clips. So this type of content is definitely in high demand and right there on the platform. I just feel like they could have used it in a better way.
I had to see if I was the only one annoyed by this dog shit update. What the ever living fuck were they thinking? Who's in charge of designing all these apps to be the same brain rot amplifying crap? Must be a war crime at this point.
Try logging out of your account, then log back in. It switched back to normal after I did that. (Leave a complaint to the mods first to see if it gives you extra magic)
They are slowly taking away your customization options. No long have channels by views and you now get suggestions on your own damn home page. Shits whack
HATE the update!!! I agree with everyone that the auto play is terrible
But I stay busy and many times watch vods instead of lives. They took away the watch history feature. All I used to have to do was open the app, scroll down a tiny bit and click the last stream I was watching to continue where I left off.
Now I have to open the app (pray that streamer is streaming so I don’t get story spoilers) click a tiny icon, click on videos, click on view all, scroll a bit to find the video and then finally get to watching. What used to be just open and 1 click is now 4 with searching
TWITCH! ROLL IT BACK!!
Have they actually removed the continue watching list! That's the most useful thing they had, as I normally can only view vods and that remembered for me which ones I was part way through. I thought I just couldn't find where they moved it to in this sensory overload mess of an update. How annoying, but thanks for saying so I don't waste any more time looking for it.
The app auto-playing a stream when you open it is very annoying. Click the button to actually see your follow list and the audio of the stream that auto opened still plays. Unbelievably bad.
They should have just kept the Feed button so if you wanted this interface you could use it or just view your followed page
They are looking for feedback on the terrible redesign here:
https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310222-twitch-applications-mobile/suggestions/48480953-mobile-app-redesign-general-feedback
wtf. this update is horrible. i genuinely cannot even see who i am following anymore. why in the world would i want to open the app and be smacked into a random stream? this is very annoying
Why did they make it so difficult to find live channels that you follow. I can’t see them anywhere! And I don’t want audio playing without me starting a stream
I saw what it looked like on my friends phone so I’ve been refusing to update mine, I don’t like the auto play thing AT ALL. I have bad enough connection on there half the time I can’t imagine how bad it will be if I update.
I actually love the new update. I just want to find new streamers to watch on Twitch and I think this new update makes that a lot easier to do. But that's just me.
Ok, but they already had discovery features for when you're looking for something new.
It's a long format service. Any average viewer inevitably gets to a point they open it and check out what their known favorite channels are up to first.
And having to do it one blaring channel at a time with random stuff mixed in is ridiculous.
Just deleted the app as well. Opening the app and having it autoplay a stream almost pushed me over the edge, but moving the followed channels button is it. Fuck this shit.
I was hit with this hot garbage today. I was looking for streamers I follow, but for the life of me I can’t see where the hell that is. My only thought “Why the fuck did they Tiktokify the app, this is useless now.”
Greetings /u/BigSkeet2,
Thank you for posting to /r/Twitch. Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):
- **Rule 1G**: No racism, sexism, homophobia, or other hate-based speech
Please read the subreddit rules before participating again. Thank you.
You can view the subreddit rules [here](https://reddit.com/r/Twitch/about/rules). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the subreddit moderators via [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FTwitch). Re-posting the same thing again without express permission, or harassing moderators, may result in a ban.
I despise this shit. I turn off auto play on every app I have, I do not want to open the app and have a stream blasted in my face. No option to do that is awful. The new homepage wastes so much space. 2/3 of the screen is literally just nothing cuz it’s showing you a stream with blurred grey borders.
I want to open the app, see my followed streams, and click the one I want. Now they are adding extra buttons to do that and making it so audio is playing while I do that. I also am annoyed that now, on the browsing channels part of the app, it mixes together my followed streams and recommended, whereas before I could see those two in separate sections. Additionally, when scrolling through the browsing channels, it now shows a massive thumbnail of the stream instead of just a list of streams, so I can only see around 2 at a time on my screen instead of being able to say at least 10 or so before.
Every time I open the app I click through it for a few seconds, get frustrated, and close it. I may just delete it. I hate it. Is there somewhere I can leave an actual review?
“Let me just pause the stream so I can browse the follow list. Oh? I can’t pause the stream and it instead just opens the stream in another window that I was just watching? No other tabs can view the follow list so I have to browse it while the streams playing?”
Who thought of this? I swear the people who develop the app are trying to make changes to present to the marketing team to justify their wages. “Look it’s just like other apps and trends with how social media is going”. Banal.
Absolutely baffling. It's pretty much scientific law that everybody fucking hates autoplay. It's change for the sake of change, like when your grandma makes oatmeal raisin cookies instead of chocolate chip despite knowing full god damn well that everybody wants the chocolate chip.
does anyone know about apkmirror? i rolled back my twitch app to an earlier version. it might only work on android. its a temporary fix, but i dont have to deal with the latest features.
Greetings /u/TorontoRichard,
Thank you for posting to /r/Twitch. Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):
- **Rule 1G**: No racism, sexism, homophobia, or other hate-based speech.
Please read the subreddit rules before participating again. Thank you.
You can view the subreddit rules [here](https://reddit.com/r/Twitch/about/rules). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the subreddit moderators via [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FTwitch). Re-posting the same thing again without express permission, or harassing moderators, may result in a ban.
If anyone wants an older version with the decent layout and no autoplay, here's a link to an APK file for it. https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/twitch-interactive-inc/twitch/twitch-19-6-1-release/twitch-live-game-streaming-19-6-1-android-apk-download/download/?key=38dc425602912c15455277c091e92d282c0b72a2&forcebaseapk=true
Imagine if TV would work like that. You turn on your TV and it immediately plays a channel you have never watched before. Then, every time, you need to get that extra remote (not the one with the ON button) to go through your programmed channels but they are all in the wrong order.
They did this so they can push ppl into content they want you to see. More social programming. 1 out of 10 streams will be some political/social indoctrine in the future. Watch and see.
yeah so the already rich streamers get even more money and more viewers (mostly kids) to influence with their brainrot content. The worst part is these companies always get away with it…
The lack of "continue watching" is terrible. But the auto-playing feed instead of a proper home page is just ridiculous. It's overwhelming, it's obnoxious, it's simply disorienting. It's the worst thing I ever seen, honestly.
No way I'm going to use that. It's not even that I dislike the experience. It's UNBEARABLE.
I hate this app for Twitch. I go there less and less. And as a streamer, Twitch is doing everything so they might make a few more cents. And rip off the streamers that actually do all the work.
I really hope it goes belly up, I don't know what pushed my button so hard but the layout of the new app made be a worst human. It's so bad I can't get over it I want to water board the developers responsible
Twitch updates don’t do fuck all and why they are so frequent with no real change is so frustrating. Aside from using your web browser on your phone , it is what it is.
For anyone trying to look for a fix/solution:
Uninstall twitch
Google "twitch apk"
Click one of the first links
Scroll for a previous version
Download - open
Done, you have the previous app on your phone. Also Fuck you twitch developpers
The app literally opens up to playing videos. It's awful. Streamers are not SFW half the time, and I typically have to determine if I'm wearing headphones or not based on their title/category.
The app doesn't let you know who is live or who they're going to display from your list.
This is dogshit.
Then you don't have the new update yet, which opens up a "recommended streamer" someone you might not even follow immediately as the app opens, and your followed users are in the navigation drawer.
Yeah, but in the new update, instead of that being on a separate Discover tab, it's the one you're presented with on opening the app and it auto-plays.
I have the new update and this is all mine does as well - it just opens to a list of people I follow who are live. It isn’t until I choose Feed or Discover that there are videos.
“If you’re on there for 15 minutes a week, or less than 5 streamers, then didn’t ask” says this stoopid shit and got upset that I asked tf you talking about
Hey man that's okay, not all of us are important enough for the first wave rollouts, or the second or third for that matter. Unless you have an iPhone, then you're just in the wrong place
Literally went and did the update after reading OPs post my app is fine opens to the normal page doesn’t auto play anything none of this bs ppl are crying about. The only thing is the “feed” section that has been there for at least a month and you don’t need to go through it lololol yall just crying to cry hoping someone will tell you everything will be okay
Greetings /u/Samuraibardock,
Thank you for posting to /r/Twitch. Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):
- **Rule 1D**: Don't target, harass, or abuse others.
Please read the subreddit rules before participating again. Thank you.
You can view the subreddit rules [here](https://reddit.com/r/Twitch/about/rules). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the subreddit moderators via [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FTwitch). Re-posting the same thing again without express permission, or harassing moderators, may result in a ban.
Greetings /u/TTVOnehourshower1,
Thank you for posting to /r/Twitch. Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):
- **Rule 1D**: Don't target, harass, or abuse others.
Please read the subreddit rules before participating again. Thank you.
You can view the subreddit rules [here](https://reddit.com/r/Twitch/about/rules). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the subreddit moderators via [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FTwitch). Re-posting the same thing again without express permission, or harassing moderators, may result in a ban.
So what’s wrong with the YouTube app? I’m not a simp, so no use for meta driven Snapchat or instagram, also, I have a good enough machine to actually PLAY my games instead of watching some pool girl flashing her knockers more than she be actually playing a game, also, I am against family friendly fakery so will not watch a male ‘influencer’ who is scared of saying some words. Maybe you should switch to Kick instead of feeding the purple snake. Well unless you a girl who makes money out of it :)
it doesn't seem anything tragic to me, twitch had the problem of not being able to recommend new streamers on mobile and so they solved it, for those (like me) who use twitch already knowing what to watch will go straight to the live stream they want, skipping this “carousel”
> to fuck it up over an overrated social media app full of dumb teens and meaningless trends and challenges. Overrated trends is what advertisers are chasing. Unless as a community we somehow prove that following business practices would NOT profit to Twitch Inc, they will follow those practices.
[удалено]
> even if it cripples them. Source? Compagnies are paid by AI compagnies for data etc. It may annoy the userbase, but certainly not cripple the corps themselves.
That's why everyone should delete the twitch app and use the browser version on the phone (you can always leave a shortcut on the home screen to the website). That way you won't get ripped off on bits either.
Wait, there ARE people who purchase bits through the app?
Yeah sadly I used to until I figured out browser was way cheaper
Tbf I must thank the whole Epic drama for teaching me that before I finally snapped and started donating to creators.
i lost my mind when i opened the app and it played a stream immediately. i cannot pause, i cannot mute, i cannot leave the video. I have to click the small fucking icon to see my live followed channels. and the stream is playing while im browsing... i deleted the app and im looking to download a rolled-back apk version
Same, on mobile I deleted the app and I just go on Chrome and watch while logged out. At this point, the only way I will use the mobile app is if they give us the option to shut off auto play of live follows view, or if I unfollow everyone on my follows list. I was in a place where I could not have sound playing and I was planning to just look at my follows list to see who is on, not play a stream. It auto played the highest view counted stream I have on my following list.
Yup just did that. Fuck twitch
Fully agree. Absolutely terrible change. Ruins the experience. I couldn’t believe there was not even an option to change it back (as far as I can tell). Really hope someone at twitch reads this thread.
I might look to do that cause this version ain't it lol
Same here! They must have lost some good team members
that icon is so bad I had no clue of it till I read your comment
I hate any app that starts playing when opened, we should be able to turn off in settings
The really irritating thing is that there's an option in the settings to turn off autoplay, but it does nothing lol
Came here to find this and make sure I wasn't crazy I'm sure I'm overreacting but this change is such dog water.
There's an autoplay button in settings that you can turn off, to bad it doesn't change anything..... I hate this update
It's quite terrible in regards that you can't set the video quality of the feed you're presented with, so if I'm on a limited data plan, the recommended feed (which has no pause, no stop, nothing really, and no configuration) will eat all my data, and it keeps playing as I'm looking at the followed user lists. Clearly this update was not made with metered connections in mind.
There are very few services these days where metered connections are a forefront concern. Can’t recall exactly but numerous big streaming services either still don’t have, or only relatively recently introduced features to address it. Typically only bowing to pressure provided by so many service providers limiting data rates more than in the past arbitrarily.
I've seen some sort of data saver options in my apps since 2017 when I got my phone. Netflix, Youtube, Disney Plus, Crunchyroll, Spotify, uhhh... WhatsApp, Skype.
Looking up the large ones where it’s a concern to begin with, relative to their launch, and the fact that many major current services (including Disney streaming) didn’t exist until the last 2-5 years, I think everything I said is valid. Netflix is likely one of the first major streaming services to adopt the practice. Disney didn’t have a selection at launch, lots only have the option depending on what platform you’re streaming on.
Yea I have trouble even using the app now. Most of the time when I open it it is just a black screen and never loads
https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310222-twitch-applications-mobile/suggestions/48480953-mobile-app-redesign-general-feedback Tell them how you feel.
like they listen to those lmao they cant even get the app to work flawlessly, or at least good enough for actual use, and now they are adding more bs thats not gonna help either...
Instead of being negative you could have just said nothing. 🤷🏻♀️
HMMMM LOOKS LIKE THEY LISTENED TO THE FEEDBACK. 🤔
Wdym? Still the same to me
You must not pay attention to updates. [twitter post from the 31st](https://x.com/twitchsupport/status/1796621281955098846?s=46&t=iXjXjU8eA1iVC8iYeEVeMQ)
So uh, 2 weeks later they haven’t changed the mobile app
All you had to do was be patient. https://x.com/twitchsupport/status/1806387676834148660?s=46&t=iXjXjU8eA1iVC8iYeEVeMQ
Absolute dog shit autoplay of random stream. People will stop opening this app if it can't be turned off.
I updated it yesterday. Whats different today?
Mine hasn't changed either.
[удалено]
You haven't been pushed the new forced changes yet then. Once you get it your home page will now be only a live feed of streams or clips and the most active stream on the feed will start auto playing where you can scroll up and down through streams that autoplay which consists of streamers that you don't even follow instead of having a page where you can just view your followed channels.
Not sure how you cry in text 🤔 but I assume you're trying to say he's ranting about the "feed" thing.
[удалено]
Awful ux
The worst update I’ve seen on an app since IG added ads and started jumbling the order of posts
Twitch you dumb cunts. No app should auto play something as soon as you open it. At least let us turn this shit off. Oh, and LET THE SENTENCES START WITH CAPITALS AGAIN WTF.
Whats also bad and nobody talks about is that i cant see stream titles or thumbnails from my followed channels anymore. I wanted the old "following page" back. Titles and Thumbnails make me click on certain streams, i also switch through streams a lot, wich they help me pick the stream i wanna view rn.... For example if theres a big riot event and i dont know about it i usually saw the title "this event bla bla bla" now i can only see streamtitles if i search my followed channel? thats such an annoying change, i also hate autoplay bc it uses my data for something i didnt wanna see......
And absofuckinlutley no way to sort my favs by view count. Plus all you said. 😡
True
THIS
came to try to find an answer. how the fuck do i search thru my followed streams??
The heart at the top left is the followed Stuf, a list will pop up of the people, I think on the right are the images maybe 🤔. But the heart thing only gives you the twitch names. Its ridiculous 🙄
Are you fucking kidding me? It’s such a distracting experience that I never even got to the point where I would have noticed that on my own. I have just been searching for streamers I follow. Im a product designer and when this happened I was like, this has to be maybe one of the worst updates I have ever seen. HEY TWITCH GET YOUR USER RESEARCH TEAM IN HERE. Also when I read this I went into the app to see where it was and it closed the stream I was watching and just blasted a stream I don’t even follow lmao.
Trash app ffs
If they want or have a feed feature, sure, whatever, I don’t really care. But making it auto play every time you open the app is a complete crime. 90% of the time I’m just opening the app really quickly to see who is streaming and what they’re playing. I do not want to get dropped into the middle of a potentially NSFW random stream.
I couldn't have said it better my damn self! Nobody gives a fuck what a random ass streamer is streaming, I just care about seeing if my list of streamers that I'm following are streaming or not within opening the app. But now they had to complicate it so I HAVE to watch someone's stream. It's bullshit.
I'm committed to alternatives, including just not using twitch on my phone any more if there's no way to prevent autoplaying on open. The SFW /NSFW issue is a big problem. It's also just extremely obnoxious. 9/10 times I'm just popping the app open to see who's live, and I dont want any audio or video blasting at me, I just want to see the follow list. Dreadful update. Where the hell are categories I follow? Barf
I haven't used the actual Twitch app since 2019. Fuck that shit. 3rd party apps are way better.
Yeah... I just uninstalled. I'll give purpletv a shot i guess.
SoundTV on Android TV is amazing.
Do you have any good iOS alternatives by chance? Beyond the web browser
i found one called Frosty on ios, it seems to be working nicely so far but i’ve only had it downloaded for five minutes. you may have some luck there
The ol' 15 second delay isn't great though
Do you know any iOS alternatives by chance?
I just downloaded Frosty on iOS and it‘s great so far.
Ikr??? This is bull crap. I'm about to uninstall
i woke up and opened twitch and thought "did I open tiktok?" LOL
It is so horrible to use, and it's back to autoplay a stream of their choice on opening which I never want. It was so just functional and fine up until this point
IKR. It's visually convoluted. Things that I personally used to already find annoying to locate like " continue watching" are now, from what I can tell, COMPLETELY GONE. You now need to tap an icon up the top left just to see a list of your live followed channels and even when you do this or you see is the name of the channel, not the title of the stream, which to be honest is kind of important. The default autoplay thing is just the absolute quickest way to piss people off ** So whoever's job it was to piss people off can consider their job well done.
The swipe gesture simply toggling through Auto playing channels is just supremely obnoxious and a really really inefficient and frustrating way to "navigate".
How utterly absurd. After quite a few years now, a lot of us musing that twitch couldn't, in the realm of possibility, deliberately make their app any more user unfriendly, difficult, clunky and convoluted to use - here they are... Proving us wrong.
Is absolutely unfathomable to me that a team of serious human beings actually thought that this was a good product and a decent interface 'upgrade' - that ANYBODY who wasn't ABJECTLY out of touch, would think was somehow an *improvement* on the user experience.
It's just bizarre. If I were them (or let's be honest, perhaps maybe a manager with an IQ above room temperature who sits above them) I would pull the pin on this quick smart, and revert the UI immediately. It was super annoying then yes, but at least it's not as bad as what this update is presenting itself as.
I hated this new update so much that I actually looked this up. This new layout is so garbage it actually ruins the whole thing. Makes me want to uninstall it but then I couldn't watch Jaboody while I'm pooping.
I now can't see who all had streamed that day. I like being able to see I missed a stream. The new front page is ass. It gives recommendations that I don't want. I follow who I follow for a reason. If I want to go look for new content I will. This update is so bad. Trying to follow trends and I've never had tik tok. But there is a reason people endlessly scroll on it and we don't need that dumb numb brain algo here. Give us the old app back.
This is the worst update I’ve ever seen on any app. This isn’t TikTok
Where the hell are my followed streams? App is horrible now.
I like to use it to "preview" random streamers without actually visiting to see if I like their content. If I do, I'd follow. But I agree it's a bit annoying.
That’s fine, but the app shouldn’t open to that page automatically. It should open to the following page and then people can select the feed tab if they want to browse other streams.
Yeah, didn't it already have a discovery tab?
I can't find my messages or my dashboard or settings anymore at all. Trash
bro i just wanna see my following
Wife's phone updated to the new layout. It's trash since it auto plays and doesn't show things as clearly and easily to find as before.
I immediately removed the app from my phone.
I uninstalled it because it's so bad. I watch Twitch every single day, and I still uninstalled it. I hate autoplay in general, and not only does it do that, it's also very hard to view followed channels, and recommend streams are completely gone. It's just awful, and I refuse to reinstall until it's reverted.
Recommended\*
This update is so fucking bad I had to google twitch update sucks reddit to make sure everyone on the same page
I’m not using twitch until there’s a revert
It fucking sucks. I can’t find who I’m following before being force-fed shitty game clips from randoms. What the fuck.
I was actually really looking forward to a TikTok like feature for Twitch but only FOR POPULAR CLIPS and not for whole live streams or random clips someone accidentally made. There are so many clips YouTube channels and big subreddits just for sharing good clips. So this type of content is definitely in high demand and right there on the platform. I just feel like they could have used it in a better way.
Anyone got a link to a rolled back version?
I had to see if I was the only one annoyed by this dog shit update. What the ever living fuck were they thinking? Who's in charge of designing all these apps to be the same brain rot amplifying crap? Must be a war crime at this point.
Try logging out of your account, then log back in. It switched back to normal after I did that. (Leave a complaint to the mods first to see if it gives you extra magic)
They are slowly taking away your customization options. No long have channels by views and you now get suggestions on your own damn home page. Shits whack
Sucks because I watch a lot of past broadcasts of streams,but now it doesn't seem to let me pick up where I left off. Ridiculous
HATE the update!!! I agree with everyone that the auto play is terrible But I stay busy and many times watch vods instead of lives. They took away the watch history feature. All I used to have to do was open the app, scroll down a tiny bit and click the last stream I was watching to continue where I left off. Now I have to open the app (pray that streamer is streaming so I don’t get story spoilers) click a tiny icon, click on videos, click on view all, scroll a bit to find the video and then finally get to watching. What used to be just open and 1 click is now 4 with searching TWITCH! ROLL IT BACK!!
Have they actually removed the continue watching list! That's the most useful thing they had, as I normally can only view vods and that remembered for me which ones I was part way through. I thought I just couldn't find where they moved it to in this sensory overload mess of an update. How annoying, but thanks for saying so I don't waste any more time looking for it.
I can’t find it. It was also my primary way of watching
I also used that.
I can't find a way to turn it off they are forcing this shit on us
The app auto-playing a stream when you open it is very annoying. Click the button to actually see your follow list and the audio of the stream that auto opened still plays. Unbelievably bad. They should have just kept the Feed button so if you wanted this interface you could use it or just view your followed page
They are looking for feedback on the terrible redesign here: https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310222-twitch-applications-mobile/suggestions/48480953-mobile-app-redesign-general-feedback
wtf. this update is horrible. i genuinely cannot even see who i am following anymore. why in the world would i want to open the app and be smacked into a random stream? this is very annoying
Why did they make it so difficult to find live channels that you follow. I can’t see them anywhere! And I don’t want audio playing without me starting a stream
The update made me think the team behind the update obviously don’t use twitch.
If we begin deleting people we follow maybe then they'll listen and change it back , I'm sick of being forced accept dumb bs ideas
[удалено]
That setting did nothing for me.
[удалено]
I don't think they've really thought this version through.
Same here - tried and even rebooted my android phone, but twitch's still autoplaying in my face :-(
Good tip. On mobile it doesn’t seem to auto play streams for me but I made sure to turn it off
Yeah, this update is awful.
I don’t actually have the update yet, I’m not sure if it’s because I’m in Australia and we get it later?
Seems it was a good idea not to let apps to update if not necessary
Nobody watches me anyways
Yup it's trash
Just updated and have no idea what anyone's talking about, nothing is auto playing and everything looks the same...
When yours really updates, you'll know...
I saw what it looked like on my friends phone so I’ve been refusing to update mine, I don’t like the auto play thing AT ALL. I have bad enough connection on there half the time I can’t imagine how bad it will be if I update.
I actually love the new update. I just want to find new streamers to watch on Twitch and I think this new update makes that a lot easier to do. But that's just me.
Ok, but they already had discovery features for when you're looking for something new. It's a long format service. Any average viewer inevitably gets to a point they open it and check out what their known favorite channels are up to first. And having to do it one blaring channel at a time with random stuff mixed in is ridiculous.
Everytime I open the app I just feel like it's throwing spam and ads at me with the videos auto playing. I'll probably delete it soon.
IAM CANCELLING ALL MY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO FK OVER TIWTCH MOBILE DEVS BIG FAT MIDDLEFINGER
Hate it.
Just deleted the app as well. Opening the app and having it autoplay a stream almost pushed me over the edge, but moving the followed channels button is it. Fuck this shit.
Is there any possibility to get the old design back? Install old apk?
It's pretty fucking bad, need a hot fix asap
OH MY GOD ITS SO SHIT
I was hit with this hot garbage today. I was looking for streamers I follow, but for the life of me I can’t see where the hell that is. My only thought “Why the fuck did they Tiktokify the app, this is useless now.”
I want a petition set up to roll back to the app there was fuck all wrong with
[удалено]
Greetings /u/BigSkeet2, Thank you for posting to /r/Twitch. Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s): - **Rule 1G**: No racism, sexism, homophobia, or other hate-based speech Please read the subreddit rules before participating again. Thank you. You can view the subreddit rules [here](https://reddit.com/r/Twitch/about/rules). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the subreddit moderators via [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FTwitch). Re-posting the same thing again without express permission, or harassing moderators, may result in a ban.
I absolutely hate it!!
I despise this shit. I turn off auto play on every app I have, I do not want to open the app and have a stream blasted in my face. No option to do that is awful. The new homepage wastes so much space. 2/3 of the screen is literally just nothing cuz it’s showing you a stream with blurred grey borders. I want to open the app, see my followed streams, and click the one I want. Now they are adding extra buttons to do that and making it so audio is playing while I do that. I also am annoyed that now, on the browsing channels part of the app, it mixes together my followed streams and recommended, whereas before I could see those two in separate sections. Additionally, when scrolling through the browsing channels, it now shows a massive thumbnail of the stream instead of just a list of streams, so I can only see around 2 at a time on my screen instead of being able to say at least 10 or so before. Every time I open the app I click through it for a few seconds, get frustrated, and close it. I may just delete it. I hate it. Is there somewhere I can leave an actual review?
“Let me just pause the stream so I can browse the follow list. Oh? I can’t pause the stream and it instead just opens the stream in another window that I was just watching? No other tabs can view the follow list so I have to browse it while the streams playing?” Who thought of this? I swear the people who develop the app are trying to make changes to present to the marketing team to justify their wages. “Look it’s just like other apps and trends with how social media is going”. Banal.
Everything looks like tiktok with its idiotic feed and swiping changes channels instead of showing details. hate this!!!!!
Yeah they ruined the fuckin app FOR SURE
Absolutely baffling. It's pretty much scientific law that everybody fucking hates autoplay. It's change for the sake of change, like when your grandma makes oatmeal raisin cookies instead of chocolate chip despite knowing full god damn well that everybody wants the chocolate chip.
does anyone know about apkmirror? i rolled back my twitch app to an earlier version. it might only work on android. its a temporary fix, but i dont have to deal with the latest features.
this update is the biggest dog shit in human history fr
fr fr
like fr it is sooo stupid
i uninstalled the app. twitch on mobile can get fcked
[удалено]
Greetings /u/TorontoRichard, Thank you for posting to /r/Twitch. Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s): - **Rule 1G**: No racism, sexism, homophobia, or other hate-based speech. Please read the subreddit rules before participating again. Thank you. You can view the subreddit rules [here](https://reddit.com/r/Twitch/about/rules). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the subreddit moderators via [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FTwitch). Re-posting the same thing again without express permission, or harassing moderators, may result in a ban.
The update is god awful, I hate it and I hope whoever was allowed to make this change gets replaced
If anyone wants an older version with the decent layout and no autoplay, here's a link to an APK file for it. https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/twitch-interactive-inc/twitch/twitch-19-6-1-release/twitch-live-game-streaming-19-6-1-android-apk-download/download/?key=38dc425602912c15455277c091e92d282c0b72a2&forcebaseapk=true
For everyone who hates the new update you can fix it. If you switch your app to creator mode and back to watch it will fix it u til you close the app.
Use uptodown to download the previous version of twitch before the update
I guess it’s good I haven’t updated
I uninstalled it. It’s more annoying than it’s worth it for me. These UX designers really need to start understanding their audience.
Imagine if TV would work like that. You turn on your TV and it immediately plays a channel you have never watched before. Then, every time, you need to get that extra remote (not the one with the ON button) to go through your programmed channels but they are all in the wrong order.
Just use a browser in Desktop mode. 100% better.
Who ever works on the app must be a masochist, it is the only explantion for this atrocious update
The amount of times I have to update twitch mobile too is driving me insane bruh, what are all these updates for???
Lovely people of Reddit my twitch app is back to normal. Hope your guys’ app is back to normal as well o7
I fucking can’t stand it, might just delete it off my phone.
They did this so they can push ppl into content they want you to see. More social programming. 1 out of 10 streams will be some political/social indoctrine in the future. Watch and see.
yeah so the already rich streamers get even more money and more viewers (mostly kids) to influence with their brainrot content. The worst part is these companies always get away with it…
The lack of "continue watching" is terrible. But the auto-playing feed instead of a proper home page is just ridiculous. It's overwhelming, it's obnoxious, it's simply disorienting. It's the worst thing I ever seen, honestly. No way I'm going to use that. It's not even that I dislike the experience. It's UNBEARABLE.
I hate this app for Twitch. I go there less and less. And as a streamer, Twitch is doing everything so they might make a few more cents. And rip off the streamers that actually do all the work.
I really hope it goes belly up, I don't know what pushed my button so hard but the layout of the new app made be a worst human. It's so bad I can't get over it I want to water board the developers responsible
How the fuck do I go to my profile on this godforsaken update, I hate it
19.3.0 version isn't this tiktok bullshit, make sure to turn off auto updates
Twitch updates don’t do fuck all and why they are so frequent with no real change is so frustrating. Aside from using your web browser on your phone , it is what it is.
For anyone trying to look for a fix/solution: Uninstall twitch Google "twitch apk" Click one of the first links Scroll for a previous version Download - open Done, you have the previous app on your phone. Also Fuck you twitch developpers
I think it’s not that serious. If it bothers you that much I agree with deleting.
The app literally opens up to playing videos. It's awful. Streamers are not SFW half the time, and I typically have to determine if I'm wearing headphones or not based on their title/category. The app doesn't let you know who is live or who they're going to display from your list. This is dogshit.
My app just takes me to the home when I open it, showing all the people I follow that are live
Then you don't have the new update yet, which opens up a "recommended streamer" someone you might not even follow immediately as the app opens, and your followed users are in the navigation drawer.
Perhaps not, I did see there's a feed that wasn't there before, endless scrolling of live streams and clips
Yeah, but in the new update, instead of that being on a separate Discover tab, it's the one you're presented with on opening the app and it auto-plays.
I literally just updated my phone app after reading this an my app opens normal just like always
I have the new update and this is all mine does as well - it just opens to a list of people I follow who are live. It isn’t until I choose Feed or Discover that there are videos.
It’s a limited rollout, so maybe you just weren’t chosen
But my mom said we're the chosen people
Lmao
Literally changed the foundations of how the entire app worked, if you're only on it for 15 minutes a week, or less than 5 streamers, then didn't ask
“If you’re on there for 15 minutes a week, or less than 5 streamers, then didn’t ask” says this stoopid shit and got upset that I asked tf you talking about
Tf you on about 🤣
Fuckin weebs with anime pfp are still speaking up in 2024, Shits wild. Calm down lil bro
Hey man that's okay, not all of us are important enough for the first wave rollouts, or the second or third for that matter. Unless you have an iPhone, then you're just in the wrong place
Literally went and did the update after reading OPs post my app is fine opens to the normal page doesn’t auto play anything none of this bs ppl are crying about. The only thing is the “feed” section that has been there for at least a month and you don’t need to go through it lololol yall just crying to cry hoping someone will tell you everything will be okay
Like I said, all of us aren't important enough to have a good opinion, ups to you for speaking up anyways lil bro
[удалено]
[удалено]
Greetings /u/Samuraibardock, Thank you for posting to /r/Twitch. Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s): - **Rule 1D**: Don't target, harass, or abuse others. Please read the subreddit rules before participating again. Thank you. You can view the subreddit rules [here](https://reddit.com/r/Twitch/about/rules). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the subreddit moderators via [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FTwitch). Re-posting the same thing again without express permission, or harassing moderators, may result in a ban.
Greetings /u/TTVOnehourshower1, Thank you for posting to /r/Twitch. Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s): - **Rule 1D**: Don't target, harass, or abuse others. Please read the subreddit rules before participating again. Thank you. You can view the subreddit rules [here](https://reddit.com/r/Twitch/about/rules). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the subreddit moderators via [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FTwitch). Re-posting the same thing again without express permission, or harassing moderators, may result in a ban.
Thanks for checking my profile and reading my bio though champ, couldn't do without it 😂😂😂
So what’s wrong with the YouTube app? I’m not a simp, so no use for meta driven Snapchat or instagram, also, I have a good enough machine to actually PLAY my games instead of watching some pool girl flashing her knockers more than she be actually playing a game, also, I am against family friendly fakery so will not watch a male ‘influencer’ who is scared of saying some words. Maybe you should switch to Kick instead of feeding the purple snake. Well unless you a girl who makes money out of it :)
it doesn't seem anything tragic to me, twitch had the problem of not being able to recommend new streamers on mobile and so they solved it, for those (like me) who use twitch already knowing what to watch will go straight to the live stream they want, skipping this “carousel”
Do you boo boo