Mixer's anniversary site theme doesn't use space well. I'm personally on a 21" display with VSR upscaling my resolution to 1920x1080.

1. The top and bottom bars on the site create annoying letterboxing that doesn't need to be there on the sides. reducing the viewing area.

solution 1- Add a "cinematic mode" this would be just the chat and the stream using as much real estate as possible. with a togglable OVERLAYED Mixplay option. [Reference image "cinematic.png"]

Solution 2- lower the stream bar with the follow and name under the stream (we know who we're watching) and have the top bar pop down if you hover on the top side of the site.

2. Mixplay- Mixplay is really cool and really brings mixer ahead. It's a space hog though. making more letterboxing and using a LOT of space below the stream.

This solution is actually inspired by a bug on the site and inspired me to make this post. Interestingly enough this "bug" is actually exactly what i've wanted from Mixplay since the beginning (Screenshot taken from PXAbstraction's channel since i've been unsuccessful on re-creating it

Solution- Overlap the Mixplay buttons on top of the viewing window and maybe have the buttons opacity drop to about 10% when the cursor isn't on the viewing window (the hide/show button would still apply).

Moreover, the buttons could have a feathered blue or grey mask behind them to make them easier to make out over the stream. This would fade completely when the cursor is off the window. ["Mixplay 1" and "Mixplay 2".png]

Thanks for reading,
Best regards
RV

In the past few months, I've noticed that Featured slots are more often than not taken by companies than actual streamers. Realm Royale, for example, took up a featured slot every day for weeks. Mix that semi-permanent slot with other events/games and it can take up almost the entire featured carousel. These observations come not too long after the changes to the featured algorithm that were supposed to greatly improve the chances of a streamer being featured. Having these featured slots taken up, and for such a long time, hurt the exposure and possibilities for streamers trying to grow.

If possible, two different tabs or featured carousels would be great - especially as Mixer grows and becomes more popular in the industry. One for streamers that works how it should currently and another for "Industry Events" or a snappier title.

I believe this could help both everyone involved, streamers who would have more opportunities to grow and companies who would have their own section that would allow for more events/streams to be shown.

Mixer really needs some kind of native donation tool like how Youtube has Super chats and twitch has bits.

3rd party donation sites require viewers to leave the stream, which means they might miss something. They're also not as secure, people can chargeback paypal donations and put financial strain on the streamer. This is why many streamers aren't comfortable taking them.

Plus, it encourages donations by allowing mixer to give small benefits to people who donate. Like how superchats let you pin a comment to the top of chat, or how bits give you a special chat badge.

Finally it can also help out mixer as a platform. Youtube takes a percentage of the super chat, and Twitch sells bits at a small markup for them both to make a profit. Mixer could do the same with competitive prices and take in some revenue, OR mixer could also take the high road by not taking a percentage and this would make the community alot happier and set mixer ahead of the competition.

Mixer should create a scheduling feature for the about section of a channel.
streamers enter their time zone and the times they stream, like "21:00 - 00:00 CEST Monday - Fridays" and then this scheduling feature automatically converts these times to the viewers time zone. so they know when to watch. because for example German time doesnt mean anything to you when you are in america!
This could have a big impact on building a viewerbase, because on my channel ( https://mixer.com/SilasTV ) i am from germany and i tell them the times im on, most people dont know what that is in their time, i dont know either, so they forget about me and never watch my channel ever again

Have an option to eliminate the dashboard overlay entirely from the screen while streaming from Xbox One and integrate full use of the "Broadcast Dashboard" from the mixer website or a computer app instead.

Also, in the "Broadcast Dashboard" on your website is not a very effective at managing a stream.

It is convenient to to change the initial settings and text, but that is about it.

The dashboard should change to a window that displays the chat and the information that the "broadcast overlay" shows on the Xbox screen. Viewers, mic status, webcam status, and any other diagnostics that a streamer would like to have.

That way you can game normally, without anything cluttering the screen, and then run the rest of it from your laptop or desktop sitting near by.

This seems like a major oversight.... given the inter-connectivity of devices these days.

Mixer has finally added more filters to help us view channels we wish to watch, but there is no such thing as too little filters or filter options. We currently have Filters for Partner, FTL, Interactive (the different types of interactive), ratings(audience), language, and co-streams.

Here are previously suggested filters not added from my last feedback and more!

1.Exclude:
Let's talk about the ability to exclude games or game types, steam has this functionality and it's amazing. When you do NOT want them recommending games of genres you don't want to play, you can exclude them. I think this would be an amazing feature to add to Mixer, it can allow viewers to find what they are looking for, remove types of streams by genre, games, and more.

2.Genre Filters:
Being a gamer most my life has come with a lot of issues when it came to finding the genres I was into, even just to watch. If you look at Mixer, Twitch and Youtube, there is no real filters for genres to help me find the games I'm really into. So Mixer would be at a huge advantage to allow genre filtering. If Mixer creates their own game list with detailed info like genres, consoles, ratings, and maybe tags, this can allow for more filters in the future. I mostly love watching RPGs/JRPGS (a rarity on Mixer) and even with mature filters with game search, it can take a long time to weed out all the games I'm not into. **** ever tried searching by game, imagine typing in any rpgs or jrpgs you enjoy.. takes forever... Filtering by Genre would levitate this greatly! Imagine being able to filter down to only show RPGs or Simulation channels currently live. :D

3.Game List:
Mixer still uses 3rd party APIs for game lists databse, sure if someone has it good why make your own, well filtering really comes to mind on this, sure it is a lot of work to create, update, then maintain such a list, but I do get tired of having to report to PlayerMe to get the game to show on Mixer... Can't we just have our own and have ppl able to request it kind of like PlayerMe does? Except add genres, ratings, tags, and console info to help future filter features. Imagine an auto rating update if you try to stream an 18+ game, you will be forced to 18+ (I don't like seeing streamers turn 18+ games on teen for viewers, those games were not meant for under 18+, so this option could help enforce a rating above teen based on the game. Also ppl forget too)

4.Saving filter searches:
Whether this is done in the account settings or have options to save specific preferences to save slots. This would be a great addition. I find it would be easiest to add this as a pop up in filters to save preferred searches, or save previous searched settings. So if you last searched English streamers on 18+, your future filters would apply this. **** I'd love it to remember my filters and keep them on when I load into Mixer, would save me opening the tab every time I join just to filter out things I wasn't into. (Also frustrating to filter things out, jump in a channel only to realize.. NOPE and have to re-filter and scroll down again...)

5.Console Filters:
Welp might as well, but I kind of covered this a bit above. Allow streamers to add a channel setting for consoles they stream on. Then filters can run off that database. Example I stream from PC, but I also use Elgato to stream most Sony consoles & SNES. This may not even need to be dependent on a game list at all, just allow streamers and maybe a /console PC, PS4, SNES option for editors or mods if streamer desires it. We already alter our ratings and titles nightly, what's consoles if desired, most put them in their title as of now, so this wouldn't hurt to not have :D

So summary:
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~Ability to exclude games/genres filters
~Ability to save filter preferences & even persist on reloads or returns on login later
~Ability to Filter by Genres & Consoles (adding a console option for streamers to fill in on channel edit)
~Mixer to create their own game list that viewers & streamers can help add too (upon approval of course, more work load I know, but a nice future to think about)

If I left any filter ideas out, feel free to comment, and all staff that read this one day, please read comments on other filter ideas. Thank you for your time.

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