Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history
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Summary
With effect from 29 April, Twitch will limit archived video highlights on its site to a maximum of 100 hours.
The streaming platform claimed only 0.5% of users will be affected, but gamers argue that it threatens to erase parts of gaming history.
Twitch highlighted the high cost of indefinite storage and claimed the highlights were not effective in engaging viewers.
Only 1% of the platform’s total view hours are from highlights, which will be deleted from channels that exceed the limit, starting with the least popular content.
Users and communities complain that important historical gaming moments, especially in speedrunning, will be lost as a result.
