Twitch Announces New Storage Limits, Threatening Gamer Archives

The Internet is forever…until it isn’t. On Wednesday, Twitch announced that it will implement new limits on archived video Highlights and Uploads that users can store on their account. The new rules, set to take effect on April 19, 2025, will set a 100-hour storage limit on saved videos. Any account with more than 100 hours of content will need to manually remove highlights and uploads—including unpublished content that is saved to the channel but not publicly accessible—or be subject to an automated purge of content that Twitch will carry out. The company says it will delete content “with the least views, until they are under the limit.” The streaming service was pretty transparent about the fact that money is the reason for the change to its archive rules: “The storage of this content is costly,” Twitch said, reasoning that cutting down on saved Highlights and Uploads “helps us manage resources more efficiently…and continue to invest in new features and improvements.” According to ... Read full article.