Follows endpoints and EventSub subscription type are now available in open beta

[BarryCarlyon]

@ACPixel

after this 6 month period will those existing subscriptions stop working?

Correct

@ACPixel

My concern is that it needs a new scope for the new subscription, this is easy enough for “new” accounts to a third party application, but for existing accounts that means we would have to reach out to every single user and ask them to re-authenticate if they want live-follow based systems to continue working.

Also correct

@ACPixel

I guess ultimately my question is, when that 6 month period is over, is there a way to allow the v1 existing subscriptions to continue working, or some other migration path

No, which is why there is a six month period so you can start reaching out to your users now

The migration path is: you have six months to get all your users moved over.

@ACPixel

I’m sure that would likely happen for many of the bigger third party applications as well at a much larger scale.

Yeah and it already has done/is doing so for the kraken to helix migration and the current deprecation of chat commands over IRC.

Twitch declares the change is happening, gives a timeline, then we start moving on getting the new auth’s for our users/clients.