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Your metrics say that a tiny so-and-so percent of active users are using highlights, but in the grand scheme of Twitch metrics, that is still likely thousands, if not tens of thousands, of active users who appreciated the ability to have another avenue with which to preserve and curate their past content for users to enjoy long past the livestream date.
This sudden kneejerk & sweeping move is a detriment not only to those who dedicated the use of the highlight system for this purpose, but for every user of the website: creator, viewer or otherwise. It is disastrous for streamers who have built their content and identity over serialised and regular show formats, and for average users who simply wish to either keep a record of their stream journeys irrespective of how long or how often it goes on for.
The deadlines with which you plan to implement this are also far too punitive on users who are not carrying enough metrics to manage their Twitch presences full-time - that is definitely a much larger percentage of the userbase. These average persons lead lives with other full-time work, child rearing, commuting - all of which is time they cannot be at their desktops to manage or transfer their large quantities of content to other places before it gets arbitrarily removed forever.
All in all, this is a shockingly inept and awful announcement to make and it is sending a number of users, myself included, into a state of anxiety and worry over this. It is a poor oversight of the decision makers to not realise that users have used the highlight and upload features in such a way for years, and then affront them with this sudden and ill-advised proposal.
Please rethink it. Don't roll this out.
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I have not once consented to any of my content to be used in training generative AI models. It's become a literal minefield in all corners of creative online spaces to avoid putting our creations in the line of plagiarism machines.
In the long list of detrimental decisions that Twitch's management has made to change things about the platform that indirectly & directly harms creators on the service, this decision one is going down as the worst one yet. If this platform joins in with the crumbling bubble that generative AI technology is becoming, I dare not entertain the ramifications. You'll hemorrhage users, viewers, and organisations that use the platform for their philanthropic endeavours. You'll become yet another name on the great blacklist. You'll potentially kill Twitch with this.
Many of us implore you to stick this idea in the bin.