After twitch had already raised the prices on subscriptions (subsequently hurting many small streamers) the rumored future data scraping of twitch BY twitch is incredibly disheartening. It feels more and more that twitch does not care for its associates and the small platforms that they've created.
If this does get pushed out into the pasture I hope that Twitch will allow channels to opt out and set it by default to opt out otherwise I fear that the platform as it's known is going to change dynamically and not for the better.
Not to mention AI agent costs have been going up as RAM prices also go up. This choice is just again, going to harm smaller streamers.
I dissent with Twitch pushing more AI features when they were not asked for, especially gen ai.
After twitch had already raised the prices on subscriptions (subsequently hurting many small streamers) the rumored future data scraping of twitch BY twitch is incredibly disheartening. It feels more and more that twitch does not care for its associates and the small platforms that they've created.
If this does get pushed out into the pasture I hope that Twitch will allow channels to opt out and set it by default to opt out otherwise I fear that the platform as it's known is going to change dynamically and not for the better.
Not to mention AI agent costs have been going up as RAM prices also go up. This choice is just again, going to harm smaller streamers.
I dissent with Twitch pushing more AI features when they were not asked for, especially gen ai.