“This is pretty big news” - Streaming community reacts to Twitch’s plans of removing Host Mode
Twitch has announced that it plans to remove one of its oldest features called Host Mode.
The announcement was made earlier today on the platform's help and support page, which explained how to use the feature.
The article's FAQ section revealed that Host Mode will be discontinued on October 3, 2022. It also stated that the command (/host) for activating it will no longer be available.
The update was shared on the r/LivestreamFail subreddit, and the conversation thread gained a lot of traction. Redditor u/finecherrypie's comment, in particular, was upvoted by hundreds of community members. It read:
In a section of its FAQ page, Twitch provided a reason behind its decision to discontinue Host Mode.
Twitch stated that it introduced the feature in 2014 to make it easier for offline streamers to provide their audience with an alternative stream. However, since its inception, content providers have voiced a desire to share their audiences with other broadcasters.
The platform's statement read:
The decision to remove Host Mode came because the experience it delivered failed to match expectations:
The platform also offered a comparison between Host Mode and channel Raiding. When a streamer raids another channel, all concurrent viewers are redirected to the target channel.
However, when one uses the Host Mode feature, the command directly embeds the target channel's livestream or video on the streamer's channel:
The platform suggested that channel raiding has a better use case as compared to the Host Mode feature:
The news was shared on different social media platforms like Reddit and Twitter. Some Redditors pointed out that Twitch has recently removed more features than it has added:
One Redditor expressed dissatisfaction with the
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