{"id":1218112,"date":"2025-02-20T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218112"},"modified":"2025-02-20T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:22:00","slug":"twitch-is-limiting-streamers-to-100-hours-of-highlights-and-uploads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218112","title":{"rendered":"Twitch is Limiting Streamers To 100 hours of Highlights and Uploads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. From a report: On Wednesday the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for Highlights and Uploads starting April 19th, warning that users will have their content automatically deleted until it falls below the limit. <\/p>\n<p>Twitch says it&#8217;s doing this because &#8220;Highlights haven&#8217;t been very effective in driving discovery or engagement,&#8221; and it isn&#8217;t worth the cost of storing thousands of hours of such content. Twitch is owned by Amazon, a market-leading cloud storage provider &#8212; a detail that hasn&#8217;t gone unnoticed by streamers criticizing the decision.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Twitch+is+Limiting+Streamers+To+100+hours+of+Highlights+and+Uploads%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F20%2F1313234%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><imgsrc=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F20%2F1313234%2Ftwitch-is-limiting-streamers-to-100-hours-of-highlights-and-uploads%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><imgsrc=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/20\/1313234\/twitch-is-limiting-streamers-to-100-hours-of-highlights-and-uploads?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23615547&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. From a report: On Wednesday the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for Highlights and Uploads starting April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218112\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}