Twitch.TV Auto-Archiving Issues - 4 May 2013
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Cloverfield, USA Join Date: 2012-11-04 Member: 166663Members, WC 2013 - Shadow
Cloverfield, USA Join Date: 2012-11-04 Member: 166663Members, WC 2013 - Shadow
Hey all, just thought I'd post this for all fellow Twitch users and streamers--mainly to inform, but also to personally apologize to certain people.
At approximately 9:00PM EDT / 3:00AM CEST on 4 May 2013, Twitch Support posted the following on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TwitchTVSupport):
What is Auto-Archiving?
Auto-Archiving is a feature that Twitch.tv uses to temporarily save, or archive, anything that you have broadcast. In other words, after you stop your stream, auto-archiving is what places that in your "Past Broadcasts." Then, if you so choose, you may click the "Save Forever" or "Highlight" button to do as you choose. However, once this feature was disabled, anything that was streamed (or currently was being streamed when it was deactivated) was NOT archived, or even cached somewhere to be retroactively archived.
At approximately 1:30PM EDT / 7:30PM CEST on 5 May 2013, Twitch Support posted the following on Twitter:
So effectively, anything that you may have streamed (or were already in the process of streaming) between 9:00PM EDT on 4 May, and 1:30PM EDT on 5 May, is lost forever--unless you recorded it locally, as well.
I, for one, am rather outraged at this because I had a number of casts that were affected by this. A really good Breakfast Klub v. Godar scrim/pcw being one of them.
But most importantly was the NA Division 2 Tiebreaker between VexX and Team 156, the first round of which I can confidently say was one of the best rounds I've cast personally (anyone who was watching can attest to this). A long story short (Literally. It was nearly a 40 minute round): 4 Oni killed. 12+ Fades killed (I lost count). And marines still lost. It was an incredible back-and-forth contest, the outcome of which was not apparent to me at any moment until the ALIENS WIN banner came up on my screen (the 2nd round was pretty amazing, as well. It was nearly as long, but was ended in a less-dramatic fashion by the 5-Oni train). And I am thoroughly upset that no one who was not present during the actual broadcast will ever be able to witness this match, that first round especially--specifically those 13 or 14 who were playing in the match (there was some subbing).
So in summation, for anyone who streamed during this 17-hour span of time and is wondering why it's not showing up in your "Past Broadcasts" for you to Highlight or Save Forever--this is why. And it is absolutely, 100%, unrecoverable.
And I would like to apologize to both teams, VexX and 156, and anyone else who wanted to see this match. I know that Twitch deactivated their archiving feature, but I can't help but feel that, had I checked their Twitter before hand, I could have simultaneously recorded it locally and posted it to my YT channel and completely averted this situation. I've been blowing up their twitter asking them in the future to release some wider-reaching announcement (perhaps, a gigantic banner at the top of every Twitch page?). I'm not a huge twitter person (at least, I wasn't, but that may change because of this event), so the chances of me knowing about this before hand were slim to none, and for them to assume that every Twitch user checks their twitter before starting a stream is, in my opinion, pretty arrogant and presumptuous.
At approximately 9:00PM EDT / 3:00AM CEST on 4 May 2013, Twitch Support posted the following on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TwitchTVSupport):
We have temporarily disabled auto-archiving, we'll let you know when they're back up!
What is Auto-Archiving?
Auto-Archiving is a feature that Twitch.tv uses to temporarily save, or archive, anything that you have broadcast. In other words, after you stop your stream, auto-archiving is what places that in your "Past Broadcasts." Then, if you so choose, you may click the "Save Forever" or "Highlight" button to do as you choose. However, once this feature was disabled, anything that was streamed (or currently was being streamed when it was deactivated) was NOT archived, or even cached somewhere to be retroactively archived.
At approximately 1:30PM EDT / 7:30PM CEST on 5 May 2013, Twitch Support posted the following on Twitter:
UPDATE: Auto-archiving of broadcasts has been re-enabled. You will have to re-start current broadcasts to see a recording after broadcast. Auto-archiving was disabled for approx. 17 hours. Thus, there are no recordings from this period. We apologize for this inconvenience.
So effectively, anything that you may have streamed (or were already in the process of streaming) between 9:00PM EDT on 4 May, and 1:30PM EDT on 5 May, is lost forever--unless you recorded it locally, as well.
I, for one, am rather outraged at this because I had a number of casts that were affected by this. A really good Breakfast Klub v. Godar scrim/pcw being one of them.
But most importantly was the NA Division 2 Tiebreaker between VexX and Team 156, the first round of which I can confidently say was one of the best rounds I've cast personally (anyone who was watching can attest to this). A long story short (Literally. It was nearly a 40 minute round): 4 Oni killed. 12+ Fades killed (I lost count). And marines still lost. It was an incredible back-and-forth contest, the outcome of which was not apparent to me at any moment until the ALIENS WIN banner came up on my screen (the 2nd round was pretty amazing, as well. It was nearly as long, but was ended in a less-dramatic fashion by the 5-Oni train). And I am thoroughly upset that no one who was not present during the actual broadcast will ever be able to witness this match, that first round especially--specifically those 13 or 14 who were playing in the match (there was some subbing).
So in summation, for anyone who streamed during this 17-hour span of time and is wondering why it's not showing up in your "Past Broadcasts" for you to Highlight or Save Forever--this is why. And it is absolutely, 100%, unrecoverable.
And I would like to apologize to both teams, VexX and 156, and anyone else who wanted to see this match. I know that Twitch deactivated their archiving feature, but I can't help but feel that, had I checked their Twitter before hand, I could have simultaneously recorded it locally and posted it to my YT channel and completely averted this situation. I've been blowing up their twitter asking them in the future to release some wider-reaching announcement (perhaps, a gigantic banner at the top of every Twitch page?). I'm not a huge twitter person (at least, I wasn't, but that may change because of this event), so the chances of me knowing about this before hand were slim to none, and for them to assume that every Twitch user checks their twitter before starting a stream is, in my opinion, pretty arrogant and presumptuous.
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