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Discord isn’t exactly known for generous file-sharing limits, still, the messaging app offered a 25MB limit to free users. The company has now updated its support page to reflect the upload limit for free users has been lowered to 10MB.

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[-] Tja@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago

I'm completely out of the loop, so I might as well ask you: where is discord so established? Never used it in my life. I used IRC, ICQ and MSN in their time. Now for work Slack, teams and zoom. Signal and Telegram privately. Email for everything.

What am I missing? What does discord provide?

[-] NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 months ago

Discord is used a lot for gaming groups, modding, software development, and has largely replaced forums for lots of niche communities

[-] zelifcam@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago

Which is unfortunate. Hiding projects, code and support behind discord is just wrong.

There are Linux and open source communities on discord. I mean, just think about that for a second. These people have chosen to put their stuff on a platform that has refused to acknowledge the existence of their OS / development platform. Every other post on Reddit in the Linux community before I left was about some half assed discord workaround.

[-] greenskye@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Every single small game I play has effectively the entirety of their support, community and forums run through discord. Instead of easy to search and discover forums, I have to use crappy infinite chat logs. It sucks.

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

A really ugly and confusing UI.

[-] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Discord is fashionable. That’s it. The whole app is fantastically impractical if you want to use file or screen sharing. It’s just a bunch of gamers circle-jerking each other, which is a perfect way to keep them from infesting the rest of the internet.

[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 months ago

ICQ

You sure about that part? I thought they shut down. I guess they might have some user-based servers?

[-] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

if you read the whole sentence it might make more sense...

i used [...] in their time.

[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Whoops, I certainly missed that. Thank you!

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