[STEAM] Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history

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game streaming platform

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that it will be imposing a 100-hour limit on the archived video highlights users can preserve permanently on the site. And while

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says that only 0.5 percent of users will be affected by these new limits, gamers are warning that the move threatens to eradicate large swaths of recent gaming history from the Internet.

Highlights, in

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's own words, are a way for

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streamers to "show off your best moments to new viewers who land on your channel page." Unlike VOD recordings of full

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broadcasts—which are deleted automatically after seven days (or 60 days for

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partners)—these highlights provide a more permanent way to maintain an archive of important moments for many

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streamers.

That seeming permanence is set to end on April 29, though, when

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says it will start to delete content from channels with more than 100 hours of highlights, starting with the least-viewed highlights.

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