Twitch Adds "IRL" (Vlogs) Category and Updated Community Guidelines

[Steel]

[quote]Today, Twitch is about much more than sharing live gameplay. While still steeped in gaming culture, Twitch has become a social video platform for all kinds of passionate people and communities, both gaming and non-gaming alike. Based on your feedback, we’re launching two new features that will help you share even more of your life, and we’re updating our guidelines to match the way the community uses the platform today.

Launching today is an all-new content category called IRL designed specifically to allow you to talk to your community and share your thoughts, opinions, feelings, and everyday life. Like a vlog, you can now interact with your audience in a one-to-many style, live or recorded, even when not playing a game. This includes sharing experiences and events with viewers live or with pre-recorded videos. Anything and everything you’re interested in can potentially become a topic of a stream. For more details, check our FAQ.

In order to accommodate the above features and to help support those of you who have a desire to share non-gaming content, we are simplifying and updating our guidelines to welcome all creators.

Since the genesis of Twitch, we have enforced a set of Community Guidelines, formerly known as the Rules of Conduct, that restrict the kinds of content we allow on the platform. Initially that meant we allowed only gaming content. Then, based on feedback from the community, we started experimenting with Music , then Creative, followed by Social Eating, and other categories. Today we have thriving communities in a variety of both gaming and non-gaming content categories.

As our platform evolved to reflect your passions, we have thus decided to revamp our guidelines, while keeping the spirit with which they were launched. Starting now, we are removing all restrictions on non-endemic content. All creators are encouraged to share video on Twitch, gaming and non-gaming alike, just be sure categorize your content appropriately.[/quote]
[url=https://blog.twitch.tv/announcing-irl-mobile-broadcasting-and-updated-community-guidelines-6833dcac8012#.3fam9yjl6]From their blog[/url]

[Féz]

I mean, not really minding this as it's just incorporating the Justin.tv part more and more back into Twitch.

I think it's cool and I don't have any issues with it. For those who say "But I don't want this in Twitch". Well, you don't really need to click on said category if you don't want to watch anything like this.

[Videvik]

makes me wonder why they got rid of justin.tv in the first place

[Joshii]

They banned games from Justin.tv so people would use Twitch only to turn Twitch back into Justin.tv :vs:

[Féz]

[QUOTE=NotMeh;51534639]makes me wonder why they got rid of justin.tv in the first place[/QUOTE]

Had to bring an userbase to their new service to make it succeed. Even if said userbase had nothing to do with the new service.

[DJ999]

I think it was also people would stream movies and TV shows and stuff like that.

[Godzillan]

You know what let's just bring back Justin.tv so I can get my original account, having to use numbers in my name makes me awful mad.

[Mitsuma]

[QUOTE=Godzillan;51534717]You know what let's just bring back Justin.tv so I can get my original account, having to use numbers in my name makes me awful mad.[/QUOTE]

Why did you not reclaim your old justin.tv account to use it at twitch?
There was plenty of time and notifications to do that.