you're amazon subsidiary for crying out loud. it's not like you don't lack the resources!

+1!
I am a smaller streamer with only 900 followers and I have been streaming for 3,5 years.

I have over 4600 hours worth of content that I need to sort through!
I am exporting 22 videos per day over to youtube (since I don't want to exceede the daily upload limit on youtube!) and it will take me about 4 more weeks to get it all!
I even have to download my longer streams to my hard drive and manually divide them into smaller sections in order for me to be able to even upload them to youtube because the length limit is 12 hours!

Please give us at least 4-6 months notice instead of lousy 2!

Also, 100 hours is far too little! At least 1000 hours would be a more reasonable amount.

+1! I wish I could upvote this even more often!

It's an absolute pain in the a** to do this. I'm in a kinda "good position", because I just want to delete my old highlights, since I've uploaded most of them to YouTube already.

But these things hinder me in doing so:

1. I can't select all Highlights at once or even increase the page limit to increase the speed
2. Even if I'm willing to delete the highlights page by page, I'm seeing old data after I click on "delete", I have to refresh the page...
3. ... which means that the sorting options are resetted aswell...
4. ... my idea, to just delete the old stuff first and keep some of the most recent highlights, is becoming an absolute daunting task

Please, dear Twitch devs, reconsider your steps and consider providing us a proper solution to solve YOUR problem FOR YOU.

Of all things, this is a major finger flip towards the content creators.

Here are some possible solutions:

1. Save the sorting options in your backend, so these don't get reset so easily
2. If 1. doesn't work, just save them in the localStorage
3. Provide migration options to other video platforms and offer a checkbox to delete the highlight on twitch after a successful export
4. It seems like you're offering the videos per page already via your backend, could you increase the amount per page?
5. Offer an option like "delete all highlights that are older than X days/weeks/months"

Make it easy for us to fulfill your needs, not just the bare minimum.

I entrusted Twitch to be the sole location where the video proof of my ongoing anthology completion project would be housed. I'm over two years into it, and suddenly I have less than two months to off-load the entire thing onto another platform? Some of us have busy lives and can't take the time to preserve their streaming history.

Twitch, PLEASE give us more time. Six months should be the shortest notice that we get.

Tonight I'm learning to stream to YouTube because of this change. I wish Twitch wasn't forcing us out.

Just a terrible idea. Really hits the speed-running community hard. Will just be a ton of history lost. Not even an option to pay for it or easily bulk download. Really middle finger to their top streamers.

This will hit many serious streamers that care to put out creative content worth archiving and breathe life into the platform the hardest. Going forward I don't know what Twitch is doing for us but shredding our efforts.

Gamers that just hit the live button and barely talk or ignore chat won't care but those aren't the ones building communities.

Removing highlights instead of expanding on their discoverability is a short-sighted solution let alone on this short notice. The biggest betrayal of content creators I've seen from any major platform. A nail in the coffin.

Please, share this post further, guys!

I took 75 posts I found on Twitter of streamers showing their Highlights usage beyond 100 hours limit expressing concern

These 75 streamers have 176246 hours of Highlights usage
If you subtract 100 hours from each streamer, they are in using 168746 above the limit, which will be deleted.

This is going to take a long time for them to backup

The export to YouTube is stopping after 10 exports.

And several people are not able to view their videos list in the dashboard at all "An error ocurred loading the list of videos"

And the pagination of browsing the list is broken when you get to the last page.

The timeframe is simply ludicrous. You can say it's only .1% of users or whatever that are using the VOD storage... but that's like, most of your partners and top affiliates. And this after years of you giving the "tip" to "highlight your broadcasts, because people who watch highlights are more likely to watch live." At the very least give a more reasonable timeframe so that people have a chance to archive the last, I don't know, DECADE of their work before you zap it? There are people with thousands of hours that they're scrambling to backup while working other jobs, taking care of their families, and still trying to stream and make content on YOUR platform. So yeah. Show some basic consideration here.

They need to give us more time. I only have highlights from 2019 to today because I wasn't saving them when I started streaming. I have almost 2000 hours compared to their 100 limit. There are people who stream way more than I do and there is not enough time. Especially when you have to manually download each video instead of a mass download button. That would make things easier too. I don't mind a limit but it is goofy to think years of content could be dealt with in like 2 months.

Would also like to add that -if you don't have a linked prime account- you'd have 7-14 days to backup a tonne of videos; you can't make NEW highlights/uploads until the limit is below 100hrs.

When 'almost every active streamer' is above the proposed limit by, on average, AT LEAST, 15-to-30 times, the amount of time to act on this new limit just is not possible.

There are 2 options:
#1 - Twitch scraps this bs out-of-the-blue proposition altogether
#2 - Twitch makes the transition period longer, preferably starting up from 12 months.

Also, Twitch NEEDS to provide emergency solution for saving TONS on livestream history from inactive/dead accounts.

It's laughably poor form this is happening, not only to compel streamers to act on hundreds of hours of their historical content, but also with the tiny window of opportunity to act on it in comparison, given the parent company is a global IT infrastructure provider.
Even if there's no choice but to force this onto the community, you need to at least allow 6 months at minimum.

Speedrunners, TTRPG streamers, marathon streamers, and brands/devs/publishers about to be devastated because Twitch is abandoning being a YouTube competitor. Myself included.

I have accumulated 2200+ hours of content and can't stream right now because I am too busy exporting and deleting all stuff. PLEASE SET THE THINGS BACK! This is ridiculous to have only deadline of 2 months, we need more time at least!

I was hoping Twitch would consider expanding the number of collections, as chat is lost when exporting to youtube.

If more time is granted, please allow us to highlight more until the deadline is reached, as it will take a while to cumulatively highlight many streams after the announcement until the 100 hour mark is reached.

I am friends with a streamer who has accumulated nearly 6000 hours from saving their streams as highlights for the sake of preservation. Two months is not nearly enough time to ensure that none of that time goes to waste. I strongly recommend extending the deadline to, at minimum, the end of 2025.

Could definitely use more time for creators with years of VOD's. Alternatively, provide bulk downloading so we're not stuck with 3-4 every hour or so; backing up so much content takes a LOT of time.

This update really really sucks! I'm so angry that my friends who spent years building up their work on this site have to deal with this site's useless, incompetent, idiotic staff. It's like Twitch staff are actively trying to make their site worse.

A year should be the MINIMUM time given for users to archive everything. But I know that all Twitch cares about is money and pandering to bigots.