general

wait, I didn't read the full thing

This won’t apply to Past Broadcasts (VODs) or clips.

wait nvm

I forgot

past broadcasts already get autodeleted if they aren't highlighted

past broadcasts are fucked too

yeah

This just removes the workaround for past brodcasts getting deleted

no yeah, this is just terrible

my worry is if Facebook is doing it too at the same time

we might see YouTube move to restrict as well

and then Rumble becomes king

storage can't be that expensive

Rawb.art gets a rush of people trying to archive their shitty minecraft lps

it can't be storage it ltierally can't be beacuse storage shouldn't be that costly even with thousands and thousands of hours being recorded

Facebook for context

i think twitches might be a database thing

I just don't see how this saves Twitch money

i cant imagine their DB or infrastructure is even remotely capable for the sheer amount of HQ video they ahve

it can't be storage

it has to be something else

I'd rather they degrade VOD, rather than kill it

twitch staff has already finished jerking off live to anything they want to jerk off to, so they do not need highlights

they would degrade it, or move it to to a different DB or something, there's very little reason for them to completely delete it all unless there was an infrastructure issue

put all VODs older than 30 days into a low-bandwidth mode purge timeline thumbnails and reduce CDN presence to low-traffic nodes

they should exempt twitch partners and then this doesn't matter at all

like Max said, storage is the cheapest part

especially since amazon owns them

twitch affiliates won't need it

they should have ZERO issues with storage

The only way I could see this making sense is if they want to down the line have a plan for streamers to pay for storage space or something

as retarded as that is

with how excessively priced AWS stuff is that makes sense

again storage is 0.00000001% of it

I believe there's a chance that they haven't actually changed their infrastructure heavily since like justin tv

the most costly part for them is thumbnails appak bandwidth costs are zero compared to HLS live, storage is nothing (especially since they autopurge VODs, and even then....)

they waste so much money failing to beat adblockers and blame this instead for wasted resources

and Pika, I still don't know why they didn't monetize like that in the past

Twitch+ or w/e

as a mini youtube clone, ads and all

but htey seem to just keep them there for reference

and don't try

there's no comments, or any other features to interact with them

@Phijkchu_Pikachu I want you to judge Virginia drivers, we got a torrential amount of snow

yooo that was sick nigga

Max, if I leave now

I mean, he did that as smoothly as you can when you are sliding on ice

we could go drifting while it's still light out

that was pretty good

spooky theres so much snow already

idk how much you have

but its a quite a few inches

on everything

vr. little

i have a lot

and its still nsowing very heavy

the storm for us doesn't really kick off until later tonight

I'm jealous

i bet youll get more

by the end

How much have you gotten

if you end up getting 6'', I think it'll be a record annual snowfall for Richmond

after all the separate storms

Weather radar shows Richmond is only getting skimmed by the snowstorm and it should not be snowing as much soon

I only know that is vaguely where you people are

the literal RVA record is apparently 3' from 1772, because George Washington wrote about it in his journal

that's a fun historical footnote

Yeah thats a good one

I like old historical weather notes

was the foot standardized then?

yes

it's been standard since the 1500s I'm pretty sure

you get your crazy weather while I wait for temperatures to go back above 40 in 5 days

there's another hour minimum of snow here

then its probably gone

more tomorrow Max

there's a 2nd storm

ye