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This is genuinely one of the poorest decisions Twitch has made in a while. This will be disastrous for TTRPG channels, channels that create live shows, speedrunning channels, archived charity streams, and so many more.
Any stream where chat participation is important can't just be imported to Youtube without losing that entire aspect of it. This includes charity streams where links to the charity are provided via chat, TTRPG or live show streams where the casts interacted directly with chat, and so forth.
In addition, the decision to have the 100 hour limit be introduced IMMEDIATELY means that channels don't have until April 19th to clear out their videos. They have until their next stream, which means that Twitch has effectively handicapped countless streamers in both the short term AND the long term. This happening with absolutely zero warning has caused countless streamers significant problems just in the past 24 hours.
This is an incredibly poor decision that has been executed even more poorly. I expect this to cause far more problems than it solves for Twitch. This needs to be reversed, sent back to the drawing board, and a better method for managing server storage introduced.
Possible alternatives I can think of would be:
- Giving partners or long-term streamers the ability to keep their highlights, as long as they're continuing to actively stream. If a channel hasn't gone live in 2 months, perhaps then give that two month warning. Yes, it will suck for channels where the owner has passed away or something, but it rewards those who continue to be active and keep the site running.
- Introducing tools to help promote highlights. Don't just go around promoting clips: Provide resources for creators to promote highlights and collections. Or, Twitch can introduce methods to give highlights greater visibility, themselves. Something like a main page for highlights and VODs instead of just for popular clips or currently live streams.
- Increase the requirements in order to be able to save highlights. Leave it to partners only, require a minimum amount of monthly streaming hours, or ****, if you're really desperate for money, introduce a $5-$10 "monthly storage fee" to save permanent highlights.Don't get rid of this feature. The immediate panic has already caused the loss of enough content. It's time to reverse this decision.
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Everyone at Amazon and Twitch knows that there are almost no creators in support of this. There are, however, plenty of creators who would be so against this that they would be willing to abandon Twitch altogether. If this absolutely MUST be introduced, it needs to be optional and opt-out.