Discord as a filehost will no longer be possible by the end of the year

Post by RulerOf » Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 4:13 AM UTC

herpdyderp wrote: post #15

aeturnum wrote: post #4

It 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.

I really wish they would add useful features to Nitro. I want to pay for Discord Nitro, but the features they keep adding to it actually actively annoy me and I don't want them. Server boosting seemed interesting but it ends up being extremely ephemeral.

Post by amatecha » Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 4:17 AM UTC

codetrotter wrote: post #44

amatecha wrote: post #38

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heck yeah, I watched an entire season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on an iPod 5.5G Video :) Those were 320x240, maybe you meant a smaller iPod though haha

> 320x240, maybe you meant a smaller iPod though Ours were probably 320x240 too. It was many years ago so I didn’t remember exactly :p Although, for a widescreen movie it might use less than 240 of the available vertical size. For example if the aspect of the original video is 16:9, then a 320 px wide resized version of the video will be about 180 px tall. So yeah, my guess is that the screen was 240 tall and that so…

Post by UndyingHorse » Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 5:36 AM UTC

kr0bat wrote: post #27

How 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…

Post by ehnto » Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 6:00 AM UTC

tmpX7dMeXU wrote: post #11

ehnto wrote: post #8

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I agree and hadn't really considered the Very Online but not technical as a cohort before. Perhaps in contrast to people who are online but not "online natives". Discord has become a defacto platform for online native communities, in the same way many of us treated IRC. It's really the same atmosphere, any of you old nerds yearning for the IRC golden years should try and find a discord server to join.

As an ex heavy IRC user, I couldn’t possibly disagree more with this. Not even for the same “free! libre!” reasons as the other replier. It is just at its core still a gamer chat platform heavily misappropriated for other purposes, with a UX that will spare no opportunity to make you aware of that.

Post by RockRobotRock » Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 6:09 AM UTC

sScTE9qEMCxEk34 wrote: post #80

RockRobotRock wrote: post #47

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Being able to upload unlimited 50MB (with nitro) files with infinite retention is kinda wild in and of itself. There’s a reason every email provider has storage quotas.

There's also a reason that they and every other provider give/gave free "unlimited" storage. And a reason they're all cracking down.