There’s also a privacy aspect here. Upload to discord and the image URL can easily be copied around and shared outside of the server and the intended audience.
This is at least a crude way to stop that and I think it’s a good thing.
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you reckon? For contrast I've gotten a lot of use out of it for connecting with various topic focused communities and I've seen people do neat things with it. The python server manages to offer an awful lot of surprisingly high quality tutoring, all things considered, and a big part of it is through the automation they've built in via bots. Oh! And I found a server focused on electronics when I was looking for…
> f you want to start using IRC as a newb today you first have to pay obeisance and perform the ritual stumbling through Nah, web-based clients like The Lounge ( https://thelounge.chat/ ) or Convos ( https://convos.chat/ ) provide a very similar user experience to Discord or Slack.
They try, but they still end up clunkier. E.g. you're never going to be able to put pictures in a message in a nice way, because even if your client supports it, other people on IRC don't.
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#63It is absolutely wild to me that Discord put up with this at all - but it's not surprising that they would want to change this. It also makes me wonder if Discord could add permanent image hosting to their list of Nitro benefits. I do think they're in prime position to become a service hub for the Very Online but not very technical.
Unfortunately the very-online-but-not-very-technical are a hard demographic to monetize, maybe more so than the very-online-and-very-technical.
Disagree. The very technical have a "the cobbler's children go barefoot" effect where they're unwilling to pay for anything. The non-technical are much more likely to pay $5/month for a program they use.
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Oh come on. Guy is sometimes gender neutral, but is overwhelmingly often not.
I would say “guys” is gender neutral but “guy” generally isn’t.
You're on the right track with guy being more more gendered than guys, but I wouldn't go so far as to say guys is completely neutral. Take "Guys and Dolls" for example. A very dated example, but that specifically-gendered usage does still exist to a reasonable extent, like saying "it's guys' night" and so forth.
Basically, guys is neutral in those cases where it's used to describe a group that isn't entirely male but otherwise it's male (somewhat circular reasoning, but I can't think of a better way to describe it); guy doesn't usually get that same logic applied.
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#65We used to call this hotlinking and it was and still is a dick move
I remember some popular sites would detect and swap out hotlinked images for, let's say, less-than-savoury images instead.
Not quite the same, still funny: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Re: Discord as a filehost will no longer be possible by the end of the year
#66I'm interested in knowing what will happen to the million instances of discord image URLs copied and pasted somewhere else on discord. Discord just displays these as images (as they do every image URL), which might result in a great many broken images from the perspective of a lot of users.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately the very-online-but-not-very-technical are a hard demographic to monetize, maybe more so than the very-online-and-very-technical.
Disagree. The very technical have a "the cobbler's children go barefoot" effect where they're unwilling to pay for anything. The non-technical are much more likely to pay $5/month for a program they use.
Under normal conditions, I'd agree, but the Very Online (But Non Technical) specifically have a chip on their shoulder about not wanting to pay for online services, even at a fair value.
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#68How many major social media sites try to prevent this behavior? Facebook links expire[1]; but Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter all generate seemingly permanent image links. Also semi-related fun fact, I think most sites lack authorization checks when accessing images via direct urls. A logged out user can follow direct image links from private accounts/servers/subs on all these sites, including Discord. Not like that mean…
As of a few months ago, Reddit no longer allows linking directly linking to their hosted images. You are directed to a pseudo-page that links back to original thread it was posted in.
This sucks because it's now not possible to use the browser's built-in image viewer which has better UX.
I am expecting them to eventually put ads on the page as well.
Random example: https://i.redd.it/144knacbw3rb1.jpg
Re: Discord as a filehost will no longer be possible by the end of the year
#69One has to think the ungodly amount of images being shared from midjourney has something to do with this?
Midjourey's ungodly amount of images would still be kept on the Discord servers. Just not directly fetchable though. The way to slow that would be some pricing on commercial bots doing things like file uploads.
They got a community showcase but that's a few stuff only.
Re: Discord as a filehost will no longer be possible by the end of the year
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
why would being on IRC be synonymous with any of that? maybe people on IRC just want to hang out and chat with people?
This is a very contentious topic but looking into the relatively recent Freenode vs Librem.chat debacle I think signifies how important privacy is to the common IRC user.
I don't remember privacy being a significant part of the discussion about the Freenode takeover and the subsequent founding of Libera.chat. My memory is that the hostile takeover was a big problem for some, and the majority of the exodus happened when Andrew went crazy and started hijacking channels and banning people en masse.