Cowlor's Sidebar for Twitch

★ TWITCH, BUT BETTER! ★ You know what your Twitch sidebar is missing? All those little bits of info you'd love to have WITHOUT clicking everywhere. ★ COWLOR'S SIDEBAR ★ adds them right where you're already looking. Simple, sleek, and 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 on the side 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) - And it plays on labelled channels too: Twitch's "Start Watching" screen used to leave the preview stuck on a still image — now it is lifted, and the labels move into a badge (see below) And it works everywhere in the sidebar: Followed Channels, Recommended Channels, and even "Viewers of X also watch". No more clicking just to find out what's happening on a stream! _______________________________ ➤ 🏷️ BADGES THAT TELL YOU EVERYTHING Inside the preview popup, colored labels sum up the stream's context 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 ("Formerly subscribed 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. - ⚠️ ★ 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 is that stream subscriptions keep extending without end — days, sometimes weeks. The extension recognizes them and tells them apart from everything else. - ★ 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. _______________________________ ➤ 🎯 COLLABS FLAGGED ON THE AVATAR A small purple dot appears in the bottom-right of the avatar of streamers hosting a co-stream, with the participant count. No hover needed, it's visible right in the sidebar. Clean, discreet, and it tells you instantly "ah, this one is collabing with 2 others". _______________________________ ➤ 💜 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: "Formerly subscribed 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 purple 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 ITSE…