Twitch is now (mostly) telling everyone which experiments it’s running
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#695Q4)
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch has a new experiments" support page where it will share details on many of the experimental features it's testing on its platform. The Twitch experiments page explains some of the ways the company tests new features and has a list of some of the tests it's currently running, what they change, and how long the experiment will last. The company says it will update that list monthly.
Many platforms run experiments with small groups of users, but it's not exactly common for them to have a public list that users can check to see if the button or screen they're seeing is new or if everyone's seeing it. Now, Twitch users will have somewhere to go if they see something that looks unfamiliar or if they just want to check in on some of the...