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My own account was just over the limit and I certainly wasn't 'abusing' it.

100 hours isn't nearly as much as you think it is. I've just had my account for a long time and the things I wanted to save added up over the years.

Now put Coyote vs. ACME on there.

All of it? On such short notice?

Well it's not just the current records that need to be preserved, historical records matter too. And even non-top runs may still matter, for examples like the discovery of a new technique or glitch, or the first person to achieve it in a run.

If you've ever watched something like SummoningSalt's world record progression documentaries, those are made possible by the fact that all of this footage is available for him to comb through. And we do need all of it, because who's to say what could turn out to be important later that we'll only realize is missing after it's gone?

Even for a mass effort, there just isn't enough time to grab everything for how suddenly this was announced.

Who has the space to archive all of speedrun.com's leaderboards?

I'd imagine the bulk of this is speedruns. Those add up to a lot of hours worth of VODs, but they are absolutely worth keeping. As I've said in another comment above, speedrun.com is suddenly going to be a graveyard of dead links.

I'd love a future where everything is decentralized and federated. But in the here and now, it's just not pragmatically feasible for any independent non-commercial service to challenge the sheer amount of bandwidth and infrastructure a service like Twitch needs. Look at how many competitors have already tried to take on Twitch and failed miserably, and those were commercial startups with VC money.

Furthermore, even in the utopian future where ActivityPub streaming takes over, I still wouldn't want all this history to be lost. Like this is such a devastating blow to speedrun.com leaderboards, for example, so many records will now be dead links.

Those aren't typically included in highlights.

I think what a lot of people are missing here is that this isn't just raw VODs, those already do expire automatically. But the highlight function was explicitly supposed to be for long-term archival, Twitch told users to highlight anything they want saved, and now that rug is getting pulled out from under them.

VODs do expire automatically, but Twitch has explicitly said in the past that if you want to archive something, highlight it. Highlights WERE meant for storage. So this feels like they're suddenly reneging on that.

A month's notice just isn't enough time to archive this much history.

speedrun.com leaderboards are going to be a wasteland of dead links. What do we do with records that get lost?