still silence on twitch's end... they're really pushing this through. gross.

It took me about 4 days, but I finally got my storage under 100 hours...and uploaded everything to YT.

Ironically, YT suddenly halved the requirement to make money.

Doesn't the time increase with Turbo?

This is forcing me to migrate to YouTube as well. Over 400 hours of fun games and quality time with both old friends and new friends made along the way I was forced to delete to be compliant with this ridiculous limit. How many long plays can fit in 100 hours? The answer is surprisingly few. Twitch is speedrunning their way into irrelevancy.

Its not even just how bad 100 hours is which is pretty terrible. I tried to go get footage for a video tonight. I can't even make a new highlight because of the sudden new storage limit. I was at 440 something hours. I can't do anything other than use old footage until I basically deleted insanely large chunks of my channel's history. Saving what I needed to. And im still at 155 hours. Figuring out what I can upload and what I can save. I can't even use Twitch as a full time creator for one of its biggest purposes which is to have VOD's of my progress I can use for videos. Twitch has been so out of tune with its creators that aren't pulling 5000+ subs.

My theory? Twitch just put themselves out of business within 3-6 months.

Also, the 60 limit even for partners is bull. Critical Role has broadcasts stored for over 5 years.

This is forcing me to move over to YouTube, which I absolutely hate. I had over 1300 hours to backup!

Here's the thing: Converting Broadcasts to Highlights allowed me to only grant access to my full library to SUBSCRIBERS. It was a benefit of subscribing.

Now, I have to story the videos over on YT because of this...and if I am having to do all of that, and cannot entice subscribers to actually subscribe, then what is even the point of me using TWITCH?

Therefore, I am reluctantly making the switch. Whoever made this decision really made a huge mistake, because I'm not the only one switching to another service.

VERY DISAPOINTED!

This affects WAY to many people who started streaming on here in 2011/2012.
THOUSANDS of hours of footage that Twitch initially wanted us to save back then.
People relied on this system, Speedrunners, people who made their vods into collections for the community to use as a library of streams etc.

2 Months to find a solution for big and small streamers...

Throwing the people that made this place big under the bus like that, for nickles and dimes is crazy.

As @jovialOdyssey has said, the panic and stress is the most harmful thing you have done to your users to date, I literally was sent into hospital for two days because stress triggered DKA before, and when you announced this, I got scared that I would go into hospital AGAIN! Please consider the health of your community!

Having only two months to find a home to archive over 5000 hours of content is a gigantic pain **********.

If you're that deadset on this 100-hour limit, then extend the deadline further.

And furthermore, to the idiots in here saying "why didn't you upload your stuff to YouTube sooner?", that's because Twitch's mentality WAS to combat YouTube on all fronts including uploads, and they actively pushed users to stay on platform while offering the option of exporting to those who preferred that. The best of both worlds.

As it turns out, they clearly can't compete anymore on that front anymore.

"less than 0.5% of active streamers on Twitch [who] are over the 100-hour storage limit today." .. yes that is your most active user base Twitch, your power creators, the people that put food on your plates in terms of revenue and content...

Something something biting the hand that feeds you

the amount of streamers ive seen panicking over this is honestly so sad to see; even when you said that only 0.5% are going to be affected, that is FAR from the truth. even smaller streamers are scrambling to figure out how to save their content and seeing them go through unnecessary stress and fear because you decided to save a few bucks is so upsetting

This is immensely stressful, I speak as someone who's been on Twitch for the past eight years. I have 6993 hours of content and I'm now being told I have to move them to YouTube or another platform within 2 months. Most users on YouTube have a 10 day video upload limit. Ten a day. I have 1218 videos, at the LEAST. The Math does not Math, even if I did ten a day diligently I would lose half my videos.

You're basically evicting people from houses in 60 days, it's the exact same thing you're pulling. This is putting me under immense stress knowing memories of memories are going to be gone forever. At least, AT LEAST give us half a year or more to go about doing this without this crazy stress. We already have lives to live, we can't only be moving content every single day.

So disrespectful to force streamers to scramble just so they don't lose out on their content. Even if Twitch went back on this, people are already deleting highlights to make space for new ones, because they *have to*, it is NOT OPTIONAL. You can't fix that damage. The highlights, they're gone off Twitch. Forever.

This sudden 100 hour highlight limit hits original music streamers particularly hard. Sure, synth streamers aren't exactly your bread and butter, but limiting stored history erases huge amounts of musical content that may or may not be stored elsewhere. This is all in such bad taste.

Way too many people I know are scrambling because of this change. Offensive to all those who put in the time and effort producing content for Twitch.

I am concerned that this change will result in the loss of many records and resources within speedrunning communities.
Additionally, a two-month transition period seems too short for streamers to properly save and manage their highlights.

It may be fewer than 0.5% of streamers, but that feels like a very disingenuous stat—almost every streamer that I know is affected by this change. Even as a small streamer, I was just over the 100-hour limit, and I don't make highlights that often.

How is forcing creators to other platforms a good business move? Hosting content is costly?? If only Twitch was owned by a company with such income...

100 hours is nothing and on the page about highlights it literally said to use it to highlight streams you don't want to lose! That was the point of it! Also forcing creators to crunch to backup their videos is cruel. Two months is NOT enough notice. The "<.5%" of streamers who are over this arbitrary limit are people who LOVE twitch and have been using it for years, if not a decade!

This is really a kick in the teeth and shows how little respect you have for the creators who make twitch what it is. I either have to sit at my computer all day for weeks to backup all my content, or let Twitch contribute to the lost media void. It's frustrating and unnecessary.