On the one hand, I can see his point. If you've got multiple GBs of files stored there, that can be hotlinked and various other resource draining things, that can get costly.
It's one of the reasons twitch has not, and likely never will turn a profit. It's like a thousand dollars for a ten minute streamed video in 1080p, more for 4k. Per person watching.
On the other hand, free hosting services pretty much don't allow anything but pictures to be linked to, and only for awhile, with a metered amount for the really popular stuff. So this just brings it in line with that, but only for text. Which seems arbitrary. But it's his place to run. I'd probably lock it down too if shit started costing me money.
On the one hand, I can see his point. If you've got multiple GBs of files stored there, that can be hotlinked and various other resource draining things, that can get costly.
It's one of the reasons twitch has not, and likely never will turn a profit. It's like a thousand dollars for a ten minute streamed video in 1080p, more for 4k. Per person watching.
On the other hand, free hosting services pretty much don't allow anything but pictures to be linked to, and only for awhile, with a metered amount for the really popular stuff. So this just brings it in line with that, but only for text. Which seems arbitrary. But it's his place to run. I'd probably lock it down too if shit started costing me money.
Agreed. That would also be annoying. We'll see how it plays out.