How to get rid of Stream Preview on Creator Dashboard

Hello! I’m one of the engineering managers at Twitch who worked on the new creator dashboard. So far, the feedback has been very positive! The team worked really hard to make this for streamers, so it feels great to see it so well received.

One thing we heard loud and clear from many was a desire to remove certain panels from the stream manager. It’s definitely something we’re looking into. In the meantime, I wanted to show a quick hack for how that can be done.

Disclaimer: this is totally unsupported by Twitch, may break at any time, and could prevent you from seeing future enhancements. If you run into issues, I recommend clearing your browser’s cookies and site data.

First, let’s find the value to edit

1. First, open the developer tools in your browser. In Chrome, for example, you can find this under View > Developer > Developer Tools. YMMV, so if you don’t know how to do this, google “developer tools” for your browser and OS.
2. Navigate to your local storage. Again, how you get there is pretty browser-dependent.
3. Inside your local storage, there is a key called sunlight.stream_manager.layout. Here’s what it looks like in Chrome.

Navigate to Local Storage in your browser.

Now, let’s get rid of Stream Preview

Rather than discuss the nuance of editing the JSON of this value, to make the explanation straightforward I’ll recommend you simply replace the value of this key with the following:

{"direction":"row","first":1,"second":{"first":2,"second":4,"direction":"row"},"splitPercentage":25.0}

Now reload your stream manager. If it worked, stream preview will be gone and you can rearrange however you like. If it didn’t work, you’ll see a black screen. If you get a black screen with no panels, delete that key in local storage and reload. It should go back to normal.

You can use this method to get rid of any panel. 1 is Activity Feed, 2 is Chat, 3 is Stream Preview, and 4 is Quick Actions. This, of course, is subject to change, so use with caution.

Again, if you get lost attempting any of this, I recommend deleting all your browser cookies and other site data. If you ever want to go back to the default dashboard layout, you can delete the sunlight.stream_manager.layout key and reload the page.

Hope that helps you! Happy streaming!