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With privacy concerns, companies should be shamed for storing billions of messages.
should we shame ycombinator for storing the messages, accounts and comments on hacker news then?
I am still unable to delete my account here even though the CCPA and the GDPR exists. But here we are.
I'm curious of the 2021 measure of total disk space that Discord consumes. Servers that I'm in share images every few minutes, which must add up pretty quick.
((channel_id, bucket), message_id)
They also cite the most common cassandra mistake, which is not understanding that your partition key has to limit partition size to less than 300MB, and no surprise: They had to craft the "bucket" column as a function of message date-time because that's usually the only way to prevent a partition from eventually growing too large. Anyhow, this is incredibly important if you don't want to suffer a catastrophic failure months/years after you thought everything was good to go.
They didn't mention this part: Oh, I have to include all partition key columns in every query's "where" clause, so... I have to run as many queries as are needed for the time period of data I want to see, and stitch the results together... ugh... Yeah it's a little messy.
Discord is so good. I just can't imagine it can stay this good forever. My fear is that eventually it will be bought out and aggressively monetized.
Discord had like $300M invested and they created unparalleled piece of software that ate whole market, damn. One of the most impressive softwares that I've seen and use after years of using ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak.
But it's important to remember that Discord is not that. Discord holds all your data, in luxurious detail, with no option to delete. They go as far as ignoring GDPR when people ask for their messages to be deleted. "Deleting" your account will not even anonymize your ID, it unsets your avatar, renames you, kicks you from all guilds and disables logging in. That's it. And if they ban you there is no place to move on to.
Discord had like $300M invested and they created unparalleled piece of software that ate whole market, damn. One of the most impressive softwares that I've seen and use after years of using ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak.
Discord's smart move was emulating the concept of servers (including all the teenage drama coming from having administrators and moderators more interested in (ab)using their power than community building) while making them accessible to anyone without technical knowledge. But it's important to remember that Discord is not that. Discord holds all your data, in luxurious detail, with no option to delete. They go as fa…
Discord is so good. I just can't imagine it can stay this good forever. My fear is that eventually it will be bought out and aggressively monetized.
Discord had like $300M invested and they created unparalleled piece of software that ate whole market, damn. One of the most impressive softwares that I've seen and use after years of using ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak.