That's my entire screen without scrolling. Where once content was quickly and easily available (the active games button was only a click away!), now there is a search function, many requests to sign up for the service, and a boatload of gaudy ad-space (as well as content unrelated to streaming games, massive frowny face).
I scrolled to the bottom to see if there was the older link for browsing games (because why would a search for a game that isn't actively streaming, new Twitch TV formatting?), where I was able to find it a whole page scroll later:
If you can read that, Twitch is now owned by Gamespot, hence the glut of advertising and criminally messy layout redesign.
Totally not ditching the service, but really hoping the change of presentation isn't permanent... or that it even lasts for the rest of the night.
A new added "feature" (or rather, removal of one) is in the browse games menu: while number of viewers for a particular game are still active, the number of channels streaming content for that game has (at present) been removed, meaning there may be 20 streams of 10 people or one really big stream, and damned if you know until you click through to the game you wanted to watch. This is a huge gripe for me, as I like to watch Magic Online streams from prominent professional players, and it's generally easier to tell when those players are online by the number of viewers over the number of streams. I'm sure this could be avoided if I signed up, but with so many accounts online, I just want to watch some video game Internet television, not have to dance around with additional user names and passwords.
What's more, no way to tell how this will affect -- if it does, at all -- users' ad revenue/s. I know a major perk of streaming on Twitch was the ability to monetize your stream, and part of that was the helpful "reminder" the service gave you to run ads after certain time spans (obviously users are earning only a fraction of the revenue pulled in by Twitch site owners, but that's part of why you get the helpful reminders in the first place -- c'est la vie in the world of free online video content).
I'm a huge fan of Twitch, so I hope this turns out for the positive and that hopefully the change-over hiccups will be brief.
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They took a previously clean and polished website and made it look like a kid designed it. This is a massive step backwards for twitch, that's for sure.
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