The launch follows other changes on Twitch in recent days, including new features to highlight a channel’s top fans, and notable update to Twitch’s community policies to crack down on hate speech, harassment, and sexual content. This setting is available upon Room creation, via a toggle switch. Moderator chats are always private but creators can choose to allow all viewers to preview their Subscriber chat Room, even if they can’t participate. But if the Room is set to be open to Everyone, the viewer can choose to opt into it if they want to participate. Moderators and Subscribers are set categories, so they’re automatically added to any Subscriber or Moderator Room. To start a Room, the creator clicks the new “Rooms” menu in the Stream Chat, followed by “Create a Room.” They then give the Room a name and assign chat permissions. More importantly, they allow the channel’s community to stay connected and chat even when the creator isn’t streaming.Īt launch, creators can only host 3 Rooms, Twitch says. That latter use case represents a topic that would make sense to hide from the publicly accessible main group chat.īut Rooms can also be used by groups who may have otherwise dominated the main Stream Chat with unrelated messages, memes, or private jokes, or for any other topic of the creators’ choosing, whether related to gaming or not. Starting now, channel owners have the option to create a “Room” for a specific group of users – like their channels’ subscribers, moderators, followers, or others with a shared interest, like spoilers, for example.

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