Watch Along For the New Discover Together System

Feature Suggestions
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Something I’ve always wanted was a way for users to display what they’re watching and give other users on the server the ability to engage with that.

The new Discover Together system is pretty cool, but I think that it’s missing something that could bridge the Watch Together and Discover Together features nicely.

Watch Along would be an opt-in feature that allows User A to display what they’re currently watching on their profile, and if the server they’re watching from is a commonly shared server to User B, it would allow User B to tag along with User A and sync to whatever they’re watching, optionally following them as they switch content.

From there the social possibilities just increase, displaying the Watch Along live or in history on both user’s profiles, allowing users to view any other users with it enabled on their home page like Live TV, live chat inside the Watch Along, reactions, etc.

Let me know what you think, and vote if you agree, thanks.

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As noted in our previous announcement, our existing Watch Together functionality will not be included in our new experience apps on launch, which are currently in preview and will be released broadly in the future.

As such, we’re closing related feature suggestions in order to give back those votes, so that you can vote for something else.

We do not preclude the possibility of offering similar functionality again in the future, as we also noted in our announcement. Should that happen, then feature suggestions like this one and others would certainly be considered during that development.

A new suggestion related to adding Watch Together to our new experience apps has already been raised and you’re welcome to comment or vote on that suggestion.