After Facebook, Twitch is also limiting storage for users

Fresh off Facebook’s recent announcement to limit live video storage, Twitch is jumping on the bandwagon with its own storage shake-up. On Wednesday, the gaming platform dropped a bombshell: starting April 19, 2025, Twitch will cap archived video Highlights and Uploads at a lean 100 hours per channel. This could mean some epic archives are about to take a hit.

Just a few days ago, on February 19, 2025, Facebook kicked off this trend by giving live videos a 30-day shelf life before they vanish, tossing users some handy tools to save their streams. Now, Twitch is following suit, but with its own twist. Unlike Facebook’s full-on live video purge, Twitch is keeping Past Broadcasts (VODs) and Clips safe — phew, no need to mourn those clutch moments just yet! It’s only the Highlights and Uploads that’ll face the 100-hour guillotine, and trust me, that’s still got some streamers sweating.

So, what’s the deal? Starting April 19, 2025, all Highlights and Uploads — published or not — will count toward this 100-hour limit, no matter when they were created. Twitch says less than 0.5% of active streamers are currently over this cap, which sounds tiny until you realize that’s still thousands of folks with treasure troves of content. If you’re one of them, a heads-up should have arrived in your Notifications Inbox and Video Producer page by now. If you don’t act fast, Twitch will swoop in post-April and start axing your least-viewed Highlights until you’re compliant.

But don’t panic — Twitch isn’t leaving you totally stranded. By February 20, 2025, they’re rolling out a new video storage tracker on the Creator Dashboard, plus sorting options by date, length, and views. It’s like a digital spring cleaning kit to help you decide which clutch plays or meme-worthy rants stay on the platform. Pro tip: download anything you can’t bear to lose before it’s game over.

Why the sudden chop, you ask? Twitch says Highlights haven’t been the viewer magnet they’d hoped, paling next to Clips and the Mobile Discovery Feed. Storing thousands of hours of content — some channels have racked up thousands — is a costly affair, and this limit, affecting less than 0.1% of watch hours, lets them keep investing in snazzier features. Meanwhile, YouTube’s sitting pretty with unlimited storage, making Twitch’s move feel like a bold gambit in the streaming wars.

For most of us casual scrollers and occasional streamers, this won’t even ping the radar. But for the archive hoarders? It’s decision time. Will you curate your collection like a museum curator or let Twitch play content reaper? Either way, the clock’s ticking — April 19, 2025, is coming fast. Better start sorting those Highlights, because Twitch is ready to hit “delete” on your digital legacy if you don’t.