Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th

Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest s... by mrkramer on Saturday February 22, 2025 @09:39AM (#43139292)

In one of my thought experiments I was thinking would only audio livestreaming be viable social platform for content creators because audio is like 90% smaller in size and therefore you don't need to spend loads of money to setup and maintain audio livestreaming infrastructure.

Btw, I think there is an easy option to export your Twitch content to YouTube so that's another way of saving all the content.

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Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest s... by AraceliHarker on Saturday February 22, 2025 @11:03AM (#43140134)

YouTube has tons of videos saved, doesn't it? The key difference between YouTube and Twitch is profitability. Twitch has never been profitable, and although Amazon has given them free rein until now, they're likely facing pressure to start making money.

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Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest s... by physicalscience on Saturday February 22, 2025 @11:08AM (#43140181)

I think Mixlr (https://mixlr.com) might be sort of something you are describing. I know they have been around for a good while as well.

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Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest s... by vasco on Saturday February 22, 2025 @09:41AM (#43139302)

So online radio stations? I think its been tried a lot, for decades, and while I don't listen often it is not never. I think people gravitate towards spotify "radio" without anyone talking or podcasts for this use case though.

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Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest s... by mrkramer on Saturday February 22, 2025 @09:50AM (#43139377)

Yes online radio station plus social features like Twitch and even Twitch streamers could restream their live audio to this new audio platform.

When you think about social audio, who is number one? Spotify is music subscription service and it's not really YouTube for audio meant for content creators and SoundCloud is stuck in time and it never really took off.

I would like to see SoundCloud reimagined with new features and ideas.

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Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest s... by vasco on Saturday February 22, 2025 @09:58AM (#43139448)

I'm not sure, maybe you have something there but I believe that if people are as engaged as you describe for social features to make sense, commenting and stuff, they want to see the person as well. We are very visual.

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Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest s... by madshougesen on Saturday February 22, 2025 @10:22AM (#43139754)

Clubhouse was pretty big for a while.

X Spaces is also big-ish (?), but mostly used by crypto scammers.

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Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest s... by mrkramer on Saturday February 22, 2025 @10:39AM (#43139926)

Clubhouse was or still is live audio chat room for people, it's not full fledged audio livestreaming platform. Although like vasco said most of the people prefer visual content so idk how popular would be only audio livestreaming platform.

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