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Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” (www.dexerto.com)

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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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[-] Xylight 19 points 3 months ago

A feature that's be nice is giving you a higher upload limit if you make your upload temporary.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Or let you host from your own machine, rather than paying Discord for the privilege of using their wildly overpriced services.

[-] immutable@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Hosting the image on discords CDN allows you not to give out your IP address to any person that comes across the link, prevents you from getting hammered with download requests if your upload becomes popular, and allows your content to be accessed when your own machine goes to sleep or has any kind of networking interruption.

Before discord people used to self host teamspeak or some other software. One of the big things you don’t have to think about is the person you just made a joke about or beat in an online game trying to DDOS your machine, because they don’t know where you are.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Hosting the image on discords CDN allows you not to give out your IP address to any person that comes across the link

You don't need the whole image, just the route to your machine to retrieve the data. Glorified Bit.ly.

One of the big things you don’t have to think about is the person you just made a joke about or beat in an online game trying to DDOS your machine

Definitely a perk of a bulk centralized system. But the pricing model is still messed up. If Teamspeak sold you gems to buy widgets to mask your IP, I still wouldn't pay for the service.

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I hate discord a lot, but this feature kinda destroys the reason discord exists. We used to have irc which is direct communication and needs both systems to be online ( yes, bouncers exist, but they arent perfect ). We moved away from irc so systems didnt need to be online and it was all in the cloud. Direct communication/file sharing from pc would kinda revert all that lol

( lets gooooo, bring irc back :p )

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