Twitch is removing the host feature and streamers are furious Unsplash: Caspar Camille RubinTwitch has announced that they will be removing the ability for streamers to host another channel and creators are furious. Throughout the years, many creators have looked at Twitch\u2018s host mode feature as a crucial part of discovery on the platform. Streamers are able to use their channel to host a friend\u2019s stream while offline, while also providing viewers with a constant stream of content without having to manually find another creator. On September 6, Twitch updated its website to reveal that they will be removing the feature \u2014 and streamers aren\u2019t exactly happy. Twitch removes host mode Under the Frequently Asked Questions section of its website, Twitch revealed that Host Mode will be removed on October 3, 2022. After the removal of host mode on that date, streamers\u2019 list of channels they used to automatically host will be changed to \u201cSuggested Channels\u201d in the dashboard. They added an explanation as to why they\u2019re removing the feature as well. \u201cWe made the decision to deprecate this feature because the experience it delivers to viewers doesn\u2019t match their expectations when they come to Twitch,\u201d it reads. \u201cViewers want to interact with a streamer when they\u2019re live and host mode blocks this from happening. Preventing viewers from interacting with the streamer they\u2019re watching also limits a streamer\u2019s growth potential because they\u2019re not able to build meaningful connections with those new viewers.\u201d Streamers slam Twitch for host mode removal Shortly after the removal announcement, it began making its way around Twitter. Twitch streamers took to their accounts to slam the website for removing the feature. Popular XSET member JaredFPS commented: \u201cTwitch is getting rid of Hosts. Just can\u2019t understand what\u2019s going on over there.\u201d Twitch partner xxBrandy slammed the platform for its lack of discoverability: \u201cTwitch is removing hosts? Why? The discoverability is already so difficult on this platform and now another avenue of helping others to get more attention is being removed. I don\u2019t understand this move or how @Twitch thinks this will be more beneficial to its users\u2026\u201d Other streamers on the platform, like iMoparHD, have mentioned that he doesn\u2019t know anyone that actually watches people when they\u2019re just being hosted, and claimed that it would be a bigger deal if Twitch removed raids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch is removing the host feature and streamers are furious Unsplash: Caspar Camille RubinTwitch has announced that they will be removing the ability for streamers to host another channel and creators are furious. Throughout the years, many creators have looked at Twitch\u2018s host mode feature as a crucial part of discovery on the platform. Streamers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}