Twitch caps streamers’ storage at 100 hours of highlights and uploads

Twitch announced on Wednesday that it will start Restricted to the stamer 100 hours highlights and uploads and if any channel exceeds the limit, the content will be deleted. The agency says it is introducing the change because the highlights are not invented or in the Baghdan and because the storage is expensive. The storage cap is effective on April 19.

The change is applicable to highlights, which are the snipts edited from the past broadcasts of a channel, as well as other uploaded materials.

Clips and past broadcasts (VODS), however, will not be affected by changes. (Past broadcasts have already been automatically removed after a specified period).

Twitch’s announcement comes in the same week that Facebook says live videos will now be saved only on it Platform for 30 daysAfter which they will be removed. The company is also removing the past broadcasts in the coming months.

Twitch said it was basically launched highlights to help streams to create their best moments, but other features such as clips, tags and mobile inventions feed were more effective in the discovery or bugging.

“Despite the low effectiveness, some users have achieved thousands of hours highlighting and upload (often used to make highlights),” the company has shared one Blog postThe

“The savings of this content are expensive. Introducing this 100-hour storage limit, which affects less than 0.5% of the active channel on Twitch and helps operate our resources more efficiently for less than 0.1% to watch, maintaining the support of highlights and uploads and investing in new Helps go to a more effective viewer such as clip and mobile feeds features and improvements in the fabric tools ””

Some streams have taken on social media to share their dissatisfaction with decisions Many Introducing The Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is the market leader in the cloud services through its AWS platform.

The channels that have surpassed the limits after these data will have highlights and will be automatically deleted with highlights with the lowest view. Twitch users are encouraging to download or export their contents before the deadline.