Moderating an online community is hard, often thankless work — and it's even harder when it happens in a silo. On Twitch, interconnected channels already informally share information on users they ...

Twitch introduced a new way for streamers to fight accounts that evade channel-level bans Tuesday. The automated tool is called "Suspicious User Detection" and can spot users trying to get around bans ...

Twitch streamers can finally block banned users from watching their streams, thanks to a recent update to the platform's anti-harassment features. Twitch first announced the feature in August. Though ...

Rahman is a writer, editor, and graphic designer. His passion lies in writing about video games. Writing has been Rahman's vocation ever since high school when he wrote for a school magazine. His ...

Twitch, the livestreaming service that largely caters to gamers, has exploded in popularity since being acquired by Amazon in 2014—but toxicity on the platform has also increased. This week, Twitch ...

Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with. In Twitch’s latest episode of Patch Notes, its ...