Twitch Hide Followed Channel

Twitch: hide a channel from the followed channels column.
What is Twitch Hide Followed Channel?
Twitch Hide Followed Channel is a Chrome extension that allows you to hide channels you follow on Twitch from the followed channels column. You can still see the channels in other places, but they won't appear in the column. You can also add channels back or hide them from the extension's pop-up. Check out the demo and explore the interesting features on Github.

Extension stats

By: jmt
Users: 318 ▲ 6
Rating: 4.29 (7)
Version: 2.0.0.0 (Last updated: 2023-07-23)
Creation date: 2020-06-02
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • *://*/*
  • contextMenus
  • storage
  • tabs
  • https://*.twitch.tv/*
  • https://*.cactus.tools/*
Size: 147.46K

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Extension summary

Have you followed someone on Twitch but you don't really care about their streams? You don't even want to see them in the list of the channels you follow? Well, you shouldn't be so mean... but this extension can hide those channels for you!

Every channel you choose (as shown in the first screenshot) won't appear anymore in the column of followed channels. Although it will show in any other place where it would normally appear. In the extension's pop-up, channels can be added back to the column by clicking on their names (second screenshot). Also, channels can be hidden from the pop-up if their names are typed in its text field. You can watch a demo of the extension here: https://youtu.be/GHzBn0DG8fA.

Code: https://github.com/jmt-chromeextensions/TwitchHideFollowedChannel. This extension has some interesting features that are worth taking a look at, like the use of MutationObserver (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObserver) to notice when some channel has started a new stream and it has been added to the live channels div, or the background-content-pop-up messagging.

FYI: Extensions are not activated automatically when they are installed. This extension, like many others you have tried probably, starts working on all the corresponding tabs at the right moment it is installed, but this is not the default behaviour. Take in mind that if you install an extension sometime and it doesn't work on the tabs you have already open, you may need to refresh those tabs with F5 key or by clicking on the reload button located in the browser's top left corner.

❓ Questions to think about: What is the value of a follow? How did Twitch devs know that I was going to follow more people now that followed channels are not pubicly displayed? Does a lot of people look at other people's followed channels? 🤔

User reviews

by Awesomio, 2024-11-01

I just want to say, thank you for this extension. I was looking for something like this for so long. It helps me keep my Twitch follow page organized while being able to help them out with a follow. Its buggy at times, but I honestly am not too bothered by it, I hope you can keep working on this and keep it running becoz this has been the most helpful extension on twitch I have other than 7tv.
by Subarashi Dono, 2024-09-10

UPDATE. is not working again, you have to disable it and enable it every time to let it work again. Perfect! Previous 3 stars because was not working anymore. Now 5 stars because they fixed it! Sometimes it still works at times. Just remove and add the channel from the list several times (refreshing the page each time you remove it, before adding it back). After a few tries it works. This extension is perfect if you don't want to unfollow a channel (because maybe you just want to be able to interact with it once in a while), but you don't want it always in the list on the left. Twitch unfortunately does not allow (in 2023) to organize that list. So thank you.
by Elisa Eli, 2023-04-27
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Extension safety

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