Twitch: Ninja is ready to return in style
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Just a week ago, the popular Ninja streamer announced that he needed a break from Twitch. Furthermore, this break would also have extended to other aspects of public life, leading the thirty-one-year-old American to also abandon other social networks such as Instagram and Twitter. However, this hiatus only lasted a week as the content creator is ready to make his comeback. The confirmation comes from Ninja himself through his social channels.
However, Ninja looks ready to be back on Twitch very soon. The content creator, in fact, has just announced on his Twitter profile that he is ready to return anywhere. In the short video accompanying the announcement, in fact, the streamer confirms his presence on any kind of social network or streaming platform, also leaving room for a possible landing on OnlyFans.
Took a little time off, but now I'm back… and I'll be live EVERYWHERE tomorrow at 12CST pic.twitter.com/k2nt1BVUuN
- Ninja (@Ninja) September 8 , 2022 | crm_srl-th_gamedivision_d_mh3_1 slot id: th_gamedivision_d_mh3 "); } Aside from the overtly ironic tones of this latest announcement, Ninja is ready to return to Twitch this evening. The first live, in fact, will be today, 10 September 2022, at 19:00 Italian. Finally, in the short video shared by the streamer, the key points in the career of the American who, in fact, does not seem willing to stop yet, are retraced. Indeed, the announcement promises a return in style on the Amazon platform but not only.
Twitch Is Removing Its ‘Host Mode’ Feature And Everyone’s Upset
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For some reason, which droves of streamers, viewers, and this journalist cannot figure out, Twitch is permanently removing its host mode feature on October 3. At that point, host mode, its accompanying chat command /host, and the channel settings feature Autohost will be lost to time, leaving streamers with only the raid option and its different functionality if they want to replace their stream with another when they go offline.
Twitch announced the change in a September 6 update to its “How to Use Host Mode” page, saying opaquely that it would remove the feature because “the experience it delivers to viewers doesn’t match their expectations when they come to Twitch.”
Streamers have used hosting to fill the screen with funny or interesting content or to spotlight friends during downtime, often leading viewers to something good after a stream ends. But according to Twitch, a feature that keeps fans entertained, allows streamers to live their lives offline, and brings attention to other creators, actually limits hosted channels’ “growth potential because they’re not able to build meaningful connections with [...] new viewers.”
This is at least partially true. Unlike Twitch’s raids feature, which lets streamers transfer all of their current viewers to another channel, host mode retains an offline streamer’s chat, and viewers can’t directly engage with the hosted channel unless they go over to it themselves.
But large streamers, small streamers, and their fans are frustrated with Twitch’s interpretation of Hosting—many point to the fact that Hosting helps them retain viewers, promote their channels on viewer pages, and bring attention to underloved channels (though no direct engagement).
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“Twitch is now removing Hosting,” Canadian streamer MrTLexify wrote on Twitter. “I said literally 2 years ago that Twitch was going to die and you are actively witnessing it happening rn.”
“Twitch seems to be making decisions that negatively effect small creators and they just don’t care,” another streamer also wrote on Twitter. On Reddit, the news was posted to r/LivestreamFail, where one user wrote that “instead of improving the site they’re gutting it.”
But while discussing the upset, former Twitch developer Chris Gamble wrote on Twitter that once raids were introduced, they “became the way people ended their streams, and Hosting was for endorsing channels for people who visited your channel while you’re offline.”
“Hosting was a great and important feature for its time,” he said, “but it hasn’t been relevant for years now. Please think of it fondly and remember the good times, but do not worry about its retirement. I promise you, you’ll barely notice it’s gone.” Will you?
