Twitch is redesigning its cell app for the primary time since 2019. The corporate’s CEO, Dan Clancy, wrote in an open letter on Wednesday that the discovery feed would be the app’s new touchdown web page. The replace, anticipated later this yr, will even make it simpler to share fast updates, together with importing quick video tales from the cell app.
“We’re redesigning the cell app (the primary main replace since 2019) to deliver you a extra fashionable, immersive viewing expertise by making the invention feed accessible to all Twitch customers as the brand new touchdown expertise within the app,” Clancy wrote. The invention feed, presently only available as an “experiment” within the cell app, reveals real-time updates mixing streams from individuals you observe with really useful content material.
Clancy says the cell app will even add new options that encourage fast updates to your followers, together with the power to create and add quick video tales out of your telephone. Different additions will embrace pinch-to-zoom in pictures (higher late than by no means?) and the power to share portrait movies to tales.
Twitch moderators with iPhones have one thing to look ahead to, because the cell app will embrace mod instruments for the primary time. Beforehand desktop-only, the cell instruments will probably be “versatile, simple to make use of, and transfer with you,” in accordance with Clancy. The corporate says the mod instruments will roll out to iOS later this yr; it hasn’t but addressed Android availability.
Trying past the cell app, different 2024 Twitch updates will embrace up to date neighborhood tips. Clancy says the brand new guidelines embrace “clearer, up to date hurt definitions, and extra extreme penalties for some varieties of harassment.” The platform additionally plans to roll out instruments to assist customers higher establish harassment, together with some that Clancy claims “would block extra harassment earlier than it reveals up in your chat.”
Lastly, Twitch’s clip editor (which reportedly helped enable child exploitation on the platform) will quickly make it simpler to share content material. Clancy says the characteristic will make it simpler for creators and viewers to share clips to social channels, together with an choice to export on to Instagram. As well as, the cell app’s large replace will add the clip editor when it arrives later this yr.
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