Twitch detoxes chat by splitting it into separate rooms

Twitch this week introduced Rooms, a feature that splits chat into separate sections, thus solving the problem of overcrowded chat. Until now, a streamer’s chat was a single channel, where everyone could pour in whatever bile they like and the only recourse moderators had was to ban or time out the unruly. It wasn’t exactly a French salon. As a result, several conversations could be happening at once, particularly in a popular streamer’s chat. The only recourse for viewers who