The internet forever … until it is not like that on Wednesday Twitch. announce Whether to use a new limit on the highlights of the permanent storage video and uploaded that users can store in their accounts The new rules that have been effective on April 19, 2025 will set a 100 -hour data collection limit for the recorded video.
Any account that has more than 100 hours, must delete highlights and upload by yourself. -Including the content that is not published, which was recorded in the channel But cannot be accessed in public speak It will delete the content. “With the least perspective until they are under the limit”
The streaming service is quite transparent about the fact that money is a reason for changing the rules. Permanent storage: “The collection of this content is high cost.” Twitch SayReasoning that reducing highlights and uploading “Helps us manage resources more efficiently … and invest in new features and improvements.”
According to the company's data, only 0.5% of the creator on the platform exceeds the limit of 100 hours, but there are still millions of hours that may be unbelievably removed for the benefit of Twitch Hi Lai. The advice is a way for the creators to choose the most important moment of their own trend and take care of their best content.
While Twitch claims that this characteristic is ineffective in driving the participation. Verge points out That the Speedrunning community rely on highlights to save work that breaks the record The well -known Summoningsalt Youtube, which creates a documentary about high speed history. Said in Bluesky Twitch's decision to limit the storage “Really sad day for speed run”
Another Speedrunner, MRJIMMYSTEEL25, Tweet For their community, highlights have never been related to “The discovery or participation” but about maintaining history “People use highlights to keep permanently and you are destroying the speed of running and other community history for many years.”
Users can download and save their own highlights. But this presents local storage problems And the fact that Twitch has determined this limit as a cost savings, allowing to open up more opportunities. If at any point in the future, Twitch is necessary to make profits. Should not disappear in all situations that Twitch owned by Amazon, which operates The largest cloud platform In the world, it is just a reminder that when you trust the history of the company, it will maintain as much as possible.