Twitch will give all users access to a recommendation feed

It will initially appear as a tab, but Twitch’s ultimate goal — to make the feed the landing page of its app.

Since last year, Twitch has been testing a recommendation feed for streamers and clips on mobile devices, hoping to give users a new way to find new streamers and therefore spend more time on the platform. Now the site has announced that the feature will be available to all users later this month. The feed will first appear as a new tab in the mobile app and will allow viewers to switch between a scrolling feed for live streams and another — for clips. As the names suggest, Live Broadcasts will show users the broadcasts of people they already follow and the current broadcasts of people they don’t follow, based on their viewing history. At the same time, the Clips feed will be filled with short snippets from live broadcasts.

At the same time, the Clips feed will be filled with short snippets from live broadcasts.

Users will be able to join current broadcasts from the live feed by clicking on the streamers’ avatar to go straight into movie theater mode. Twitch will also show when a streamer is live in the Clips feed so viewers can follow them from there as well. Just in case, Twitch clarified in its announcement that the discovery feed will only aggregate streams and clips from the service and that creators won’t be able to upload them directly. In other words, getting into the feed — is a game of chance, although clips that make it into the feed will be prioritized over clips that don’t make it into the feed.

Any clips that make it into the feed will be prioritized over clips that don’t make it into the feed.

The discovery feed launched this month is not the final option, however. Perhaps next month some users will start seeing the feed as their home page, which is what Twitch intended in the first place. In early March, CEO Dan Clancy said the service was undertaking the first major redesign of its mobile app in years and that the discovery feed would be its new landing page.

At the beginning of March, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced that the service was undertaking the first major redesign of its mobile app in years and that the discovery feed would become its new landing page.