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Improves Twitch's sidebar with more relevant stream information and better organization. ★ TWITCH, BUT BETTER! ★ Your Twitch sidebar is missing all those little bits of info you want WITHOUT clicking everywhere. ★ COWLOR'S SIDEBAR ★ puts them right where you look. Simple, sleek, oh-so-useful! _______________________________ ✨ WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES: _______________________________ ➤ 📺 A LIVE PREVIEW ON HOVER The flagship feature. Hover a streamer for one second and boom, a popup opens with: - The LIVE stream video (actual live feed, not a frozen thumbnail) - The full stream title, readable before you even click - Badges that tell you everything about the context (see right below) - It plays on labelled channels too: no more "Start Watching" still image; labels become a badge. Works across Followed, Recommended and "Viewers of X also watch" channels. No more clicking to see what's happening! _______________________________ ➤ 🏷️ BADGES THAT TELL YOU EVERYTHING Colored labels in the preview sum up the stream at a glance: - 🤝 ★ CO-STREAM ★ Tells you precisely whether the channel is the host or a guest, and with whom. No more "wait, who is this stream I didn't follow?". - 👥 ★ LIVE WITH ★ For squads and multistreams, shows the main co-streamer and total count of others ("Live with So-and-So and 3 others"). - 💜 ★ SUBSCRIBED ★ How long you've been supporting the channel ("Subscribed • 9 MONTHS") — or that you used to ("Former sub • 22 MONTHS"). - 💰 ★ SPONSORED BY ★ For sponsored streams, displays the brand with its color logo. You'll know who's behind it. - 🚂 ★ HYPE TRAIN ★ A Hype Train is running on the channel? You're notified without having to click. - 💎 ★ DISCOUNTED SUB ★ When Twitch is offering a discounted subscription on the stream, it's flagged right there. - 🆕 ★ JUST SWITCHED TO ★ The streamer changed category mid-stream? A green badge says so for ten minutes: "Just switched to Elden Ring". Twitch announces it nowhere — the extension sees it because it keeps watching. - 🔁 ★ BACK AFTER A DROP ★ The streamer dropped and came back? Twitch resets their uptime to zero and says nothing about it. Here the card keeps showing the WHOLE stream's duration, outage included — the badge says what happened, and the "just went live" bar does not light up on a stream that has been running for six hours ("Back after a drop"). - ⚠️ ★ CONTENT LABELS ★ The official Twitch labels (mature-rated game, graphic violence, gambling…) are shown as their own badge, first in the row — so you know before you look, without the interstitial that used to block the video. - 🌈 ★ SUBATHON ★ The channel is running a subathon? The badge says so and gives the current day ("Subathon • DAY 10"). _______________________________ ➤ 🎞️ "PREVIOUSLY ON THIS STREAM" You walk in halfway through an eight-hour stream. What happened before? The preview shows you: a colored ribbon, one color per category, and the list underneath. - ★ THE WHOLE JOURNEY ★ Every category played, with how long it lasted and how many times the streamer came back to it ("Just Chatting ×7"). - ★ TO SCALE ★ Each band's width is real time. One glance tells you where the evening went. - ★ EVEN WITHOUT A REPLAY ★ A channel that doesn't archive? The extension reconstructs the journey from the clips, and SAYS SO. - ★ IT ADMITS WHAT IT DOESN'T KNOW ★ When the exact time of a switch isn't known, the color fades instead of cutting sharp, and the duration carries a "~". Never an invented number. _______________________________ ➤ 🌈 SUBATHONS, SPOTTED ON THEIR OWN A subathon can last days or weeks as subscriptions extend the stream. The extension spots it automatically. - ★ THE DAY, AGAINST THE NAME ★ A small "D9" pill next to the username: you know at once where the event stands. - ★ A COLOR THAT BELONGS TO NOBODY ★ Pill and badge run through a rainbow, because an exceptional event doesn't file into anyone else's palette. - ★ NOTHING GUESSED ★ It's the stream title and the tags that say so, not the duration: a subathon in its second hour already is one. _______________________________ ➤ ⏱️ "HOW LONG HAS HE BEEN STREAMING?" No need to go to the stream anymore! The extension shows the live duration directly in the sidebar, right under the viewer count. - 4h19, 14h29… you see it at a glance. - It updates automatically, in real time. - And when a stream ends, the counter switches to a subtle italic "Ended" before Twitch even removes the streamer from the list. _______________________________ ➤ 🎯 CO-STREAMS FLAGGED BY A COLOURED BAR A colored bar marks every co-stream, one color per group — even if you follow only one member. Adjacent bars join. No hover or avatar clutter: see who streams together instantly. _______________________________ ➤ 🎬 THE MULTISTREAM ROOM: THE WHOLE CO-STREAM, SIDE BY SIDE The "▶" on a co-stream bar opens all its views side by side, right on the page. - ★ IT SAYS WHAT IT OPENS ★ Hover it: "Watch all 3". Members you don't follow? Their faces show at its end: move onto them to add them, or Shift+click to open the whole co-stream at once. - ★ THE SOUND WHERE YOU WANT IT ★ Click a tile to give it the sound — keys 1 to 6 work too — and the chat follows the sound. - ★ LINED UP ON THE SAME MOMENT ★ Each stream arrives with its own delay: the extension lines them up by itself on their common sound, in about a minute of listening. With no common sound, it leaves them alone. - ★ SIX ON SCREEN ★ Six streams at most; the others wait below, and a click brings them in. - ★ NOTHING HIDDEN ★ The room earns no channel points, and Twitch's ads play there as anywhere else. Escape closes it — or a click on the cursor, now a "■". _______________________________ ➤ 💜 YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS, IN GOLD The channels you actually support shouldn't look like all the others. Now they don't: - ★ THE WHOLE CARD LIGHTS UP ★ Golden name, golden category, a gold ring around the avatar, and a slow shimmer in the background of the card. Discreet, but you can't miss it. - ★ A SORT OF THEIR OWN ★ "My subscriptions first" pushes them all to the top of the list, with your total on a little badge. - ★ EVERY KIND COUNTS ★ Paid, gifted, mobile: all three are recognized, and all three wear the same gold. - ★ HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN THERE ★ Hover a channel and the preview tells you: "Subscribed • 9 MONTHS". And for one you supported in the past: "Former sub • 22 MONTHS". - ★ IT FIGURES IT OUT ALONE ★ Nothing to configure, no login, no password, no token. How exactly? It's spelled out in the PRIVACY section further down, in plain words. _______________________________ ➤ ✨ NEVER MISS A STREAM START AGAIN! Instantly spot streams that just went live! A subtle red bar on the left side flags streams that started in the last few minutes. - A subtle, elegant visual effect to welcome the streamer. - Perfect for being among the first and never missing the intro! - The animation fades on its own after a few minutes. _______________________________ ➤ ⚡ QUICKER THAN TWITCH ITSELF Twitch can take 2–4 minutes to show a new live channel and 5–10 to remove an ended one. The extension refreshes viewers, category, language, uptime and live status every 30 seconds. See changes sooner. _______________________________ ➤ 🚂 AND GOODBYE VISUAL CLUTTER We cut out the sidebar clutter: - Hype Trains that take up half the space (info still available as a badge in the preview, don't worry, nothing is lost) - Intrusive sub-discount banners - Streamers who just went offline and are still lingering - Entire sections that end up empty - Redundant visual indicators (those ambiguous little colored circles, useless "DROPS REBROADCAST" lines…) - Sponsorship banners that disfigure streamer entries: we clean it all up, and the "sponsored by X" info is restored inside the preview, way cleaner. Only what matters, with nothing to configure — and settings if you want them. _______________________________ ➤ 📂 NO MORE "SHOW MORE" TO CLICK The full list of your followed channels is automatically unfolded on every page load. You see everything, right away. _______________________________ ➤ 🔍 CATEGORY FILTER Pick a category (Just Chatting, League of Legends, IRL…) to show only matching followed streams. Only currently active categories appear. _______________________________ ➤ 🌐 LANGUAGE FILTER Filter followed streams by language with a flag dropdown. Only languages currently live in your list appear. _______________________________ ➤ 🏆 TOP CHANNELS: ALL OF TWITCH IN YOUR SIDEBAR One tab switches your sidebar to Twitch's 30 most-watched live channels. - 🌍 ★ THE GLOBAL RANKING ★ Recomputed continuously, not a frozen list. - 🎮 ★ BY CATEGORY ★ Pick Just Chatting, GTA V, League of Legends… and you get the 30 biggest streams IN that category. - 🇬🇧 ★ BY LANGUAGE ★ Pick a language and you get a genuine top 30 for it — not a rough filter slapped on an English list. - 👀 ★ EVERYTHING ELSE FOLLOWS ★ Hover preview, stream uptime, badges, co-streams: they're cards like any other. - ✅ ★ HONEST ★ When the ranking can't be guaranteed complete, the extension tells you. No made-up numbers. One click to get there, one click back. Your followed channels don't move a pixel. _______________________________ ➤ 🔄 SIX WAYS TO SORT YOUR LIST Six buttons at the top of the sidebar to rearrange everything on the fly: - 👁️ ★ BY VIEWERS ★ Twitch's default sort, clean. - 💎 ★ MY SUBSCRIPTIONS FIRST ★ The channels you support, grouped at the top, with your total on a badge. - ⭐ ★ BY PERSONAL POPULARITY ★ Based on your own local visit history. Your favorite streamers rise to the top. - ⏰ ★ BY STREAM DURATION ★ Ascending: just-started streams sit at the top, perfect for catching beginnings. - 🔤 ★ ALPHABETICAL ★ By channel name. Classic but effective. - 🔗 ★ CO-STREAMS FIRST ★ All co-streams grouped at the top of the list. Never miss a collab again! _______________________________ ➤ 📊 YOUR TOP STREAMERS, LOCALLY Your local visit history powers "Personal Popularity". It stays ONLY in your browser. _______________________________ ➤ 🎛️ A PANEL, RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR CHANNELS The sidebar gear or browser toolbar icon opens the same panel. - ★ TWO WAYS IN, ONE PANEL ★ The gear in the sidebar or the icon in the toolbar: the same page, either way. Opened from the gear it is larger — a toolbar popup is capped by the browser, not by us. - ★ A GUIDE, FIRST THING ★ The panel opens on a sixteen-chapter walkthrough of everything the extension adds, with drawn examples — and it shows even with no Twitch tab open. - ★ YOUR HABITS, DRAWN ★ The hours you actually watch, laid out as a seven-day by twenty-four-hour grid. - ★ YOUR NUMBERS ★ Top streamers, subscriptions spotted, followed channels in memory: all there, readable. - ★ A REPORT TO PASTE ★ One button builds a full diagnostic report, with no personal list inside it — enough to report a problem without revealing a thing. _______________________________ ➤ 🎮 HOW DO WE DO IT? 1. Click "Add to Chrome" (it's free!) 2. Reload Twitch and… tadaaaa! That's it. No configuration or account to create. It just works. _______________________________ ➤ 💜 WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT - ★ IT'S DISCREET ★ We didn't touch your favorite Twitch, we just improved it. - ★ IT'S PRETTY ★ Smooth animations, colors that pop, visual pleasure. - ★ IT'S USEFUL ★ No more clicking everywhere to get important info. - ★ IT'S FREE ★ No subscription, no ads, no account. It's a gift! _______________________________ ➤ 🌗 LIGHT OR DARK, IT FOLLOWS Twitch has a light theme. The extension notices and switches with it — no reload, no setting, no checkbox. - ★ EVERYTHING FOLLOWS, NOT JUST THE BACKGROUND ★ Cards, hover preview, badges, menus, toolbar panel: every element has its light version, designed for that background. - ★ COLORS RECOMPUTED, NOT JUST LIGHTENED ★ Each badge gets its own light hue, measured against the exact background it sits on. An orange that reads well on black turns to mush on white, so it was redone rather than merely faded. - ★ THE SECOND YOU SWITCH ★ Flip Twitch's theme and the extension follows within the second. No page reload needed. _______________________________ ➤ ⚙️ AND IF YOU WANT TO CHOOSE Everything is on from the start and there is nothing to set up. But the panel's "Settings" section hands you twenty-one settings. - ★ WHAT YOU SEE ★ Every badge, the stream uptime and its format, the "just went live" bar, the subscription gold, the filters, the sort buttons: all of it switches on and off with a checkbox. - ★ WHAT GETS LOADED ★ The preview can drop the video and keep its badges, its timeline and its thumbnail — or simply step down in quality. Enough to make it light without losing it. - ★ WHAT CONCERNS YOU ★ The subscription sweep — the extension's only authenticated request — can be spaced out to once a day. And each memory is erased on its own: visits, subscriptions, known channels, without touching the others. - ★ NOTHING IS A TRAP ★ A dot marks what you changed, one button restores every default, and your settings export as text so you can put them back on another machine. _______________________________ ➤ 🌍 IN YOUR LANGUAGE Your Twitch language automatically sets every label, badge and tooltip: - 🇬🇧 English - 🇫🇷 Français - 🇩🇪 Deutsch - 🇪🇸 Español - 🇧🇷🇵🇹 Português (Brazil and Portugal) - 🇮🇹 Italiano - 🇵🇱 Polski - 🇷🇺 Русский - 🇯🇵 日本語 - 🇨🇳 简体中文 - 🌐 …and English by default for every other language Nothing to configure. _______________________________ ➤ 🔒 PRIVACY PEACE OF MIND - ★ No third-party server ★ The extension only talks to Twitch's own public API — the very one the page already uses to render itself. Nothing else, nowhere. - ★ Anonymous calls ★ No session token, no cookie is ever sent: those requests cannot be tied back to your account. - ★ One exception, said out loud ★ To know which channels you subscribe to, the extension opens YOUR own twitch.tv/subscriptions page in an invisible frame, every six hours by default (three, twelve or twenty-four depending on your setting), sooner only if the previous sweep found nothing or if you click "Sweep now", and never when you're signed out. Your browser authenticates that page with its own cookies, exactly as if you had clicked the link: the extension never reads your token and never passes it on. What it keeps — channel names and a tenure in months — stays in your browser. - ★ No tracker, no pixel, no telemetry ★ - ★ No shady permissions ★ The extension ONLY runs on twitch.tv. - ★ Ad blocking stays in its lane ★ It applies to the hover preview thumbnail and to nothing else. The stream you're actually watching is untouched. - ★ Your history stays with you ★ Visits, subscriptions, months: stored in your browser's localStorage, period. Clear twitch.tv site data and it's all gone. - ★ Full source code readable ★ Right in the extension folder. No black box. _______________________________ ➤ 🤔 WHO IS IT FOR? - ★ YOU FOLLOW 50 STREAMERS? ★ See at a glance who's been live for a while and who just started. - ★ YOU SUB TO A DOZEN CHANNELS? ★ They're in gold, grouped at the top, with the number of months you've been there. - ★ YOU ALWAYS MISS CO-STREAMS? ★ A dedicated sort brings them to the top, a badge tells you who's playing with whom, and the multistream room opens them all side by side. - ★ YOU HATE VISUAL CLUTTER? ★ No more Hype Trains squatting the sidebar, no more ad banners, no more empty sections. - ★ YOU JUST LOVE TWITCH? ★ This extension is made for you! _______________________________ ➤ 🎉 INSTALL AND ENJOY! Your feedback helps the extension evolve! ★ Install COWLOR'S SIDEBAR now and rediscover your favorite Twitch! ★ *P.S.: This extension is not affiliated with Twitch, but we love them anyway