Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history
Amazon-owned platform says “costly” historical archives don’t drive “engagement.”…
If they gave more time than just a few months, in example at least an entire year, then people could at least download those files before hand. Not sure how long this would take and how stressful this would be for their servers.
Is anyone actually surprised by this? How can you think Twitch is a longterm archive? Its like having backups on Microsoft or Adobe servers. Do not trust them and always have a backup plan! Not even YouTube is, because they deleted old unused accounts and therefore the associated videos. Not sure how far this gone though. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon/Twitch announces some premium service where all files will stay active if you pay a monthly fee.
If they gave more time than just a few months, in example at least an entire year, then people could at least download those files before hand. Not sure how long this would take and how stressful this would be for their servers.
They could also give the option to pay for this. They should know what storing a video costs and therefore could give creators the chance to cover that cost.
A lot more work to introduce a new product than to turn on a TTL in a DB.
Is there really enough demand (potential revenue) to justify the effort?
I'm glad we have the word "enshittification" because otherwise it'd be difficult to explain what they've done to Twitch.
For many reasons twitch is a bad platform and I hope this encourages people to platforms where they actually have control like peertube.
