I never really considered Twitch to be a platform that _kept_ videos, only stream them to the viewer. If you're on Twitch and you want to make your video permanent, you have to upload it to Youtube. That's how most of the streamers I watch handle it anyway.
Twitch's new storage limits will purge swaths of Internet gaming history
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#22I never really considered Twitch to be a platform that _kept_ videos, only stream them to the viewer. If you're on Twitch and you want to make your video permanent, you have to upload it to Youtube. That's how most of the streamers I watch handle it anyway.
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#23I remember a purge they did on VODs 10 years ago: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Twitch.tv#Broadcast_r...
I remember the subsequent workaround: "PSA: your past streams will be deleted after X days, unless you mark the whole thing as a highlight." It mostly only made sense for infrequent streamers (e.g. if you had one stream every few months) since it would quickly get quite overwhelming if you were streaming every day.
Guess Twitch finally wised up to that loophole. It's a pity, but I get it, storage isn't free even if you are an arm of an internet behemoth who makes many billions of profit every year.
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#24Facebook is doing the same thing[0] meaning that YouTube is Web's utility at this point. Google is so profitable that they will not put any limit on your YouTube storage anytime soon. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/facebook-now-only-stores-l...
I have been dealing with extracting photos from Google photos in a reasonable way. That experience has reminded the only backup is the backup you fully control. Download your content, duplicate it on a second disk, and use a general purpose cloud storage system to sync it.
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#25On short notice. Really short notice. This has easily sent thousands of people into a panic.
Twitch are out of their minds, and there's a blatant disconnect with the streamers.
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#26This is really a tragedy, I would have at least hoped they would have offered it someone like archive.org to keep.
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#27For me it's only my personal photo library, but in an age where we constantly produce data and don't have a sense for limitations in regards to storage space (unlike with my bookshelves, boxes of fabrics for sewing and board game collection) we should get into the habit of deleting content that isn't worth storing and condensing long videos.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? All this stuff costs money. Blame all the fuckwits of the world for uploading yet another "40 hours of black screen with a metal pipe sound randomly through the video" video. I saw they take in like 4.3PB a day but that post was from years ago so it's probably even more, now.
Those 40 hours of black screen probably compress pretty well. If that's not good enough, maybe reducing old/unwatched content to 480p would be a good alternative to just purging it? Also, 4.3PB per day, at today's newegg HDD prices, is about $100k per day or $36.5 million per year. Yeah, you have to consider replication and whatnot, but you get the point-- this is pocket change for Google.
That seems like moving the problem from memory to compute.
Re: Twitch's new storage limits will purge swaths of Internet gaming history
#29Facebook is doing the same thing[0] meaning that YouTube is Web's utility at this point. Google is so profitable that they will not put any limit on your YouTube storage anytime soon. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/facebook-now-only-stores-l...
I have been dealing with extracting photos from Google photos in a reasonable way. That experience has reminded the only backup is the backup you fully control. Download your content, duplicate it on a second disk, and use a general purpose cloud storage system to sync it.
You can submit bulk requests but as of a few years ago the full resolution isn't uploaded unless you are on their premium plan, the best option is to pull them from the devices directly.
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