A heads up, particularly for #Trans folk that streamed on #Twitch before transitioning. It turns out that if you have changed your channel name, and someone buys a gift sub, the confirmation email contains your original channel name, which is a potential #privacy / dead-name leaking issue.

There's not much you can do about it. I've submitted a #BugReport, and fortunately the person I got subs for didn't change channel name for that reason. Might want to check your gift sub emails and raise the same bug

Response from Twitch:

"Hello LumKitty,

Thank you for contacting Twitch Support and letting us know what your purchase confirmation showed the old username for <redacted>.

I went ahead and let the appropriate team know about the situation, and feedback regarding how it can potentially be detrimental to some people!

Have a great rest of your day,
Twitch Support"

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@LumKitty not a cookie-cutter response, at least, that's good

@elfi Indeed. The response was pretty damn quick, and suggests that their first line support understood the issue.

We'll see if their dev team also do, and how long it takes them to do anything, but so far at least it's looking good

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