I can't think on anything that Twitch has done to improve the viewer experience in recent years,other than detracting the quality and availability of content from the viewer. Giving a 60 day notice to move hours of memories and notable high points of our community coming together, just feels cold and uncaring. As a notorious VOD watcher some of us can't make it to every stream due to career choices, familial responsibilities, or other reasons. Twitch at large shouldn't be punishing their community for not being at every livestream, but encouraging people to see past streams. To get an idea of the community they might want to engage with or watch peacefully from the sidelines. The past shouldn't just be the past, but an opportunity to learn from and grow in a more productive way.

Oh well, tearing down the past and burning from memory seems like the most American thing to do in recent times, don't see how this is any different.

A bit more time, or even a lot more time would be ever so helpful. Please twitch. thanks <3 CBC

A 6 month minimum would be hugely appreciated.
I have over 7800 hrs to download.
At this point, if I'm looking at 2 months, it's going to be my fulltime job to just download everything and make sure nothing has been corrupted during the bulk downloads, and I doubt I'd even get everything in that timeframe.

Needs at least 6 months, if not more. This was reckless of Twitch to do this._

This entire thing feels like a knee-jerk reaction. Do better.

Please, two months isn't feasible for a change so big for those impacted.

This is so bad to jump scare us with a 2 month period and already have limits to making Highlights. I'm at 3000hrs of Highlights

I started exporting my 15 years worth of Highlights (still have my first ones from Justin TV era too) and I've found I can't export anything after my 10th one.

I found out why from a trustworthy source on these matters

"@commanderroot.bsky.social‬

If you then also want to export the VODs to Youtube then that might take longer as Youtube uploads are limited (by Google) to 10 - 101 videos per day (depends on the account)."

So if I want to export my 1100+ Highlight VODs at 10 per day let's see now... Am I about to have to make a dozen Youtube VOD accounts just to save them in time?

Look at the ridiculous response I got via email about this @TheMonolith:

Em qui., 20 de fev. de 2025 às 09:05, Twitch Support <support@twitch.tv> escreveu:

Hey there HanzoWH,

I understand your query regarding the Highlights.

We’ll be implementing a 100-hour maximum storage limit for Highlights and Uploads starting February 19, 2025. Here’s what you need to know:

All Highlights and Uploads, whether published or unpublished, count towards the single 100-hour storage limit. Please visit your Video Producer page to see your current storage usage and take action to delete content to bring you under the storage limit. We recommend that you download or export any content you want to save before deleting it from Twitch, and sort your Highlights and Uploads by least viewed to see what is most at risk of being deleted.

If you are still over the limit after the change takes place, we will begin automatically deleting Highlights and Uploads after Apr 19, 2025, starting with Highlights and Uploads with the least views, until you are under the limit.

This limit DOES NOT apply to the storage of Past Broadcasts (VODs) or Clips. Only Highlights and/or Uploads will need to be deleted to meet this quota. Content classified as Clips and/or Past Broadcasts in your Video Producer will not be deleted.

We’re rolling out a new video storage tracker on the Video Producer page in your Creator Dashboard to help you track your storage limit at a glance today. We’re also adding filterable columns including date created, length, and views to your Video Producer to help you sort through Highlights and Uploads to decide which are important to keep on Twitch.

Learn more about why we’re making this change and review how to download, export, and delete your content here. If you have any other questions or concerns please let us know!

Best,

Twitch Support

This message was sent to hanzoworldheroes@gmail.com in reference to Case #08947525

Dude, postpone what people, they HAVE to go back on this otherwise it's certain bankruptcy.

the 'less than 0.5%' claim is highly dubious as many users will stream once or twice before deciding it's not for them. Throw those users into the estimation and twitch have their convenient little number to justify this bs. Joke platform with nothing going for it other than it's user base.. which it doesn't care about anyway. No wonder I don't buy off Amazon

It also should have been warned that this was happening, as if you exceed the limit, you can no longer make highlights of any stream (which is how a lot of us offload to YouTube), or even VIEW the VODs that have markers on them. Since I can't view my markers, I can't make clips, which is apparently what Twitch wants to push...so I guess no more clips for me...

I really wish they had handled this in waves. The limited hours provided seem totally unrealistic and its immediate triggering has only made this transition more difficult for the creators that make up this platforms content. This should have been a 2 month warning before any transition starting. Then the slow introduction of limits after another couple months, giving creators time to save their content externally. Twitch's inefficient system for downloading the vods only makes this process even more frustrating.

The very abrupt and short time frame giving to move hundreds if not thousands of hours of content many creators have is ludacris with the current imposed limit.

Many creators will need at least 4 months to find the time and make arrangements to find ways to download, increase their own storage and or move the content elsewhere in general.

The other thing that hurts the ability to even deal with this is currently if you are over this limit you cannot make highlights to then download or export them meaning any recent broadcasts are going to be lost. This limit is far too low and should be at least 500 hrs worth or more, plenty of communities that have been around for even a year have well over 1000 hours of collaborated content that will be lost because there is no useful and reliable tools provided to creators on the platform to help deal with this dilemma but also in general which is where this really stings.

This is a crippling blow to anyone who makes content because the tools to make this process in general are not provided or even the bar minimum that is currently are not reliable in any fashion with the extremely short time frame and low limit that makes even managing content after this point very difficult to unless we have around the clock editors to assist with this.

This change should have been rolled out with significantly more notice and with tools provided on the platform to its creators which we do not have. Requiring a content creator, collaborators and editors to basically need over 5 TB of storage to cover a single year of content in a blink of of time is a huge misplay for those who have been around at least that amount of time and those who may not currently have the infrastructure, time, money and manpower to deal with this problem.

I personally organize speedrunning and community events that easily push past 100 hrs of content each event and with the already limiting 14-30 day deletion of broadcasts is already a struggle with no proper tools to deal with them after the fact.

Walk this back or at least delay this change with some revisions till the end of the year and provide the tools on the platform to make this flow of content easier to manage in general.

Let's switch to Kick stream platform since Twitch doesn't care about streamers so boycott is the only way out.

Asking your users to take such a large portion of their time and money to get this task accomplished in two months is a gargantuan task. Some people can’t afford local storage, or unlimited internet bandwidth to download everything, much less taking their streaming time to work on this task. Please give people more time to work on this, especially to those who are thousands of hours over the upcoming limit.

need at least 4-5 months imo. more honestly would be best. give till the end of 2025 if you ask me.

+1. I'm 900 hours over the limit here consisting of over 10 years (and that's with limited streams for most of that time). Simply exporting to YouTube isn't going to preserve chat history, which I do go back and look at sometimes. Also, Twitch is owned by Amazon, surely of all the companies in the world they don't have a problem with storage