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We've put a lot of work into our clients and our backend to make sure the impact of being on 1 vs 100 guilds is negligible. It helps that most of the folks building Discord are pow…

We won't have support initially but as a Linux user internally I'm definitely hoping to push for it, and I see no reason why it wouldn't get built!

Ah sorry I misunderstood you. We keep the original image around and provide different sizes for different platforms/resolutions/dpis/etc.

As mentioned in the post, one of our core product features is preventing your IP from being shared. Given that requirement, images shared in chat have to be proxied through our inf…

vips (Go binding) is included in the benchmarks mentioned in the post, but at the time of running them (~10 months ago) vips pulled 51482954 ns/op on a 1024x1024 test image, where …

GCP has a virtual networking stack to support a bunch of crazy (and awesome) features Google has built. Unfortunately the complexity here seems to hurt power-users like us. In this…

Yup this, our privacy policy plainly states that we're not in the business of making money from your data. We have various provisions which limit how and when we can share your dat…

Thanks, we try our best with these. Past experience has shown they can be very valuable, and help everyone at the company get context on the system and how we handle failures. Reli…

Ahhhh, thats actually something we're aware of. Currently direct calls run on an entirely separate set of metals vs. everything else (this was mostly to help us test/measure video …

Very possible you saw a slight interruption around 11:30PST for around 10 minutes until we found and decommissioned the host that experienced this problem. We generally don't updat…

Can you give more explicit examples of the bad audio quality you experience? I'd be happy to forward this onto our native team to look into if there are some concrete things they c…

Bad and hard to grok code can be created in any language. Even more-so in languages that have more syntax complexity than C.

(Discord Dev here) Hey Alex, this definitely sounds like a miss on our part, so apologies. As you know, we're fans of uws and not including the original license was a screw-up in o…

Discord desktop is electron. Only our iOS app is react native. We spend quite a lot of time and effort optimizing performance however, something thats required given the number of …

fwiw, here is our postmortem from the incident: https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/dj3l6lw926kl

No worries, thanks for the response anyway!

Coming from a company that regularly goes down to DDoS attacks :thinking:

Mind emailing me some details? az@discordapp

The point of our service is that chat is persistent. You can scroll back through time and read all the messages you sent. Users are free to delete whatever they sent whenever if th…