[viraptor]

Twitch is losing money. Now it's losing less. (I'm not saying it makes sense or will make a dent or anything else, just putting the fact out there - twitch has limited time to figure out how to make things work)

[nubinetwork]

If twitch cared about money, they could easily stop providing storage and bandwidth for all the South American and Russian channels streaming pirated movies and TV 24/7.

[k8sToGo]

I highly doubt that either are really making a dent in costs.

[nubinetwork]

Running a CDN for ingest, and a CDN for viewing streams and VODs isn't cheap. Twitch still pays Amazon to run their equipment.

[olsonjeffery]

“just putting the facts out there” while stating a truism devoid of context is not a constructive contribution.

You make no comments on the impact of this choice beyond the nominal cost savings. Or does your lack of comment signal your perspective?

What even is your point?

[viraptor]

That it doesn't matter that the saving is trivial. I think it's a signal of one of two things: Either they want a popular committee dependent on their income and easy to manipulate. Or we're to see lots of savings at any cost at any opportunity. That's what I meant by "losing less" - not a truism, but a beginning of doing anything and everything to reach breakeven. And lots of it will be stupid and not make a difference apart from making things just a bit worse.