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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] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

on mobile it's just a huge pile of stinky shit anyway

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'd be down if Discord offered optional/default compression for images/videos. Yeah maybe my photos are 10 MB each, but with a slight quality loss they can get under 1 MB. Telegram does it well.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mine changed back to 8MB from 25MB a few weeks ago and it really does cut the amount of stuff you can send without having to run them through compression or just host externally.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago

It's a big lie. Why not offer the option to delete automatically after 24h if 15mb extra is so much storage?

Or is it about bandwidth? Why no automatic compression on desktop? Oh wait, that feature existed in the past was scrapped. They think you're fools.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I moved a big group off Discord last year to Matrix chat (Element). It's been largely pretty alright. 100mb upload limit, we have a bot that downloads tiktoks/Instagram/reddit videos and uploads them to the channel so you never have to visit the sites. Pretty nice! Open source and federated, you guys should give it a try!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

we have a bot that downloads tiktoks/Instagram/reddit videos and uploads them to the channel

Would love to see the implementation!

I like bringing stuff to the fediverse by way of cobalt.tools -> catbox.moe (shoutout Catbox for so much 100% free hotlink bandwidth) (also the owner’s trying to find a CSAM content ID solution that’s not super expensive FYI y’all)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yknow, i would like to see reported figures as to why discord isn't actually able to host file sizes over a certain size...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The problem is discord never deletes files, no matter how old they are. So they have a perpetually growing storage need

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

seems like a skill issue to me. Surely they would delete them on the banishment of a server, old servers die pretty frequently. Channels are deleted. Etc.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Huh, I wonder how enshitified it has to get before I stop seeing discord on FOSS projects.

It begins lol.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (4 children)

discord on FOSS projects

I don't understand why this was even a thing to begin with. FOSS projects using non-FOSS platforms is kinda weird, especially platforms with unclear financial situations like Discord.

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