I'm hoping that there was at least an option on the table for a swipeable VOD browsing interface that helps game fans find new streamers via their VODs. Cuz like, the streets DO need that. I am so often looking for gameplay footage for an incredible number of reasons, and Youtube isn't great - ThreadSky

solon.bsky.social • 5 days ago

I'm hoping that there was at least an option on the table for a swipeable VOD browsing interface that helps game fans find new streamers via their VODs. Cuz like, the streets DO need that. I am so often looking for gameplay footage for an incredible number of reasons, and Youtube isn't great

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solon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Third, 100hrs total? You do know I can fill that up in four livestreams right? Just a distressingly miserly number

twitch, you down bad? Here's a prime sub

solon.bsky.social•5 days ago

The biggest failure for Twitch here is that VODs were a thing that drove people to the site and now that relationship is gone.

But solon, the VODs aren't going away?

Streamers will have the two-week backup, sure, but the relationship of history ownership and stewardship is gone. It's gone.

solon.bsky.social•5 days ago

It stinks. I have a whole lot of work to do now figuring out how to organize and store 990hrs of vods on another site.
It stinks. I have to build a new logistic pipeline through Youtube (and/or HDDs) to save my larger wider-variety performances.
It stinks. I will have to check regularly with YT now.

solon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Folks might not know, but Twitch and Youtube are not in lockstep. Some things that are appropriate on Twitch are not on Youtube, which means every time I upload a video to YT from Twitch I have to deal with a barrage of emails telling me which countries my VOD is illegal in and who owns my VOD now.

solon.bsky.social•5 days ago

All of this kvetching today (because I'm procrastinating working in the youtube mines) is just to say: YOUR gameplay is so important to me as a historian of the stuff,

but also I hope it is to you too. I want you to show your kids or your future friends all the fun games you played over the years.

solon.bsky.social•5 days ago

It kinda tears me up thinking about how Twitch has this beautiful platform that spans the entire history of this very special and largely unresearched medium ... and they'll just toss their history unilaterally away like this.

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