If you want to ask me how I can describe the year 2022 for Twitch, honestly I will say that it has been a challenging and semi self-destructing year as Twitch is experimenting with its own environment.

With this there are some new things we learned that Twitch has been working on and the most positive one is the usage of /shoutout as a social tool.

In an easy explanation, you as a streamer can tell your audience to make an official follow and have them checkout another colleague streamer by just typing /shoutout.

This is a native alternative with the popular !so that many streamers program on the chatbot to highlight another streamer joining in and can even some footage of the past stream if it happens to join after finishing its own or raiding.

Talking about raiding…

Twitch also announced the availability of more options in Raids reception, including marking a minimum and maximum viewer thresholds, account age thresholds and more user groups segmentation.

While this move is seen as “taking a step ahead on hate raiding”, conversation in social media is debating if this is yet another unstudied move and reactivity from TWitch rather than a friendly proactivity by Amazon’s streaming subsidiary.

All new features are already available.

A move that have the community with anime-style annoyed sweating

Twitch confirmed that some web browsers where having trouble to work with the platform was a full purposely move as now the expected web browsers to use the service are Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox.

While acknowledging it is an unfriendly move, Twitch justified it as a direct way to battlin bots and hate raids curated by bots.

Opera, the creator of the OperaGX browser, assured their users that the browser complies with all the Twitch requirements to function correctly, despite it not being officially listed as a “ok browser”.

I guess that this could not arrived in a hard time for Twitch as the platform has been accused on being COMPLETELy disconnected from streamers and user alike and having a business-first mindset and have been provoking a massive exodus of streamers to other platforms, mainly YouTube Gaming.