Twitch is rolling out a brand new chat historical past function that ought to make it so much simpler to atone for what’s been occurring in a streamer’s chat.

If you leap right into a stream, you’ll be capable of see both the final 50 messages or the final hour of what’s been stated in chat, relying on which choice has fewer messages. That will sound like a doubtlessly giant gulf between choices, however I believe it serves each giant and small streams nicely.

For a lot of bigger streams, chat flies at a mile a minute, with discussions taking place and altering at a speedy fee. Fifty messages might be sufficient to get you on top of things forward of chat transferring on to one thing else. Smaller streams could have only a few devoted chatters that won’t put up sufficient to hit that 50-message threshold, so with the ability to see the earlier hour of messages permits you to meet up with what’s seemingly been a extra centered set of conversations.

Chat historical past is rolling out beginning Monday, based on Twitch, and the rollout will occur “over the following few days.” I don’t have it but, however I’m wanting ahead to getting it.