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Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If every one of those users uploads one 10MB file, that would be two petabytes of data. At S3's IA prices that's $25k/month. And people are uploading far, far more data than that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'll have to check my math again. But are people uploading more than that? On my friend server, with 50 people, we've had about a dozen uploads all year, and they're all pretty small PDFs and images. Everything else is rich links.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pictures.

Which are automatically downloaded by every active user of the chat on every individual client, and many people do at least tens per day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Interesting. We don't upload many pictures, either; though admittedly I hadn't thought about it, and that probably doubles my total.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s heavily used at many universities. Think notes, images of whiteboards, full textbooks, pictures of tests, shared multiples times daily by tens of thousands of people. It adds up very fast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ahh, right. I've made the classic mistake of thinking my usage was normative.