Twitch caps highlights and uploads at 100 hours, effective April 19

Twitch has announced a new policy that will limit streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads, set to take effect on April 19, 2025. This decision, which aims to cut storage costs due to the low effectiveness of highlights in driving viewer engagement, has sparked significant backlash from the speedrunning community, who rely on archived footage for documenting records. The change will automatically delete any content exceeding the limit, although it will not affect clips or past broadcasts, which already have their own deletion timelines. Twitch justifies the limit, stating it impacts less than 0.5% of active channels and accounts for under 0.1% of total view hours. Critics have pointed out the irony of Twitch's ownership by Amazon, a leader in cloud storage solutions, questioning the necessity of such restrictions. Streamers will be able to filter their content to better manage their uploads before the enforcement date.