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Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/games
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well I guess they could download them all?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

All of it? On such short notice?

[–] jayandp 3 points 9 hours ago

I mean, maybe? They have 'til April it seems. Time to make yt-dlp work overtime I guess....

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Download them and host them yourself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Especially for smaller communities. I'm sure that MC and Ocarina of Time will be able to save everything they need but so many small communities will probably loose most of their records. Loosing so much knowledge in the process.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I'm particularly worried about all the historical records. Summoning Salt & similar channels are gonna have problems after this, especially after the policy has been in place for several years and stuff made in this very era expires.

I wouldn't be surprised if Archive Team tries their best at archiving the current situation (difficult as it is) but nobody is going to bother doing it on-going and a WR obsoleted for months is interesting material only when edited into a documentary.