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

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

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Post by pndy »

codetrotter wrote: post #29
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…

> Tumblr […] generate seemingly permanent image links They did, and people hosted a bunch of things there, and then they changed the ToS to not allow NSFW stuff. What happened to all of the NSFW images people hosted on Tumblr? I assume they were all deleted with the ToS change.

Majority was hidden for non-logged in users (nowadays seems they provide a blurred curtain), some were deleted with either copyright or content rules violations as reasoning

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

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Post by xigoi »

DoctorOW wrote: post #50
geraldwhen wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guy is gender neutral, like person. It is a noun, not a pronoun. “Dude” is also gender neutral, to save you a post at a later date.

It's amazing how often I ask guy if they're into dudes and get a "No" without even a follow up as to what gender the dude is.

In this situation, it's obvious from context that the word is meant to be used as gendered. Don't be deliberately obtuse.

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

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Post by otis_inf »

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'd happily pay for such an image hosting. Our gallery site Hall of Framed (https://framedsc.com/HallOfFramed/) with the best virtual photography shots from our Discord community is hosted this way (json file with the urls in a github repo, updated by a bot, the site is hosted on github pages). We directly pull the shots from discord, but we now have to refactor the site so the images are hosted elsewhere.

This poses a problem as the amount of shots is quite large... We have a channel where users post their shots, and the bot basically harvests the links of the shots which have a high amount of votes. So currently no re-hosting of images occurs.

I can image tho why Discord does this. Our gallery is likely not visited a lot, but I can imagine high profile files pulled from discord channels like pirated software/malware etc. are a big problem. The route to the server / channel where the files are coming from isn't known, only to discord

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

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Post by spongebobstoes »

hurutparittya wrote: post #71
dangus wrote: post #61

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.

Please explain to me how going "right click -> save as" on the image instead of going "right click -> copy" on the link going to improve privacy in any meaningful way.

this way, http logs or browser history that include urls can't be used to view someone's stuff years later. that's a privacy benefit

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

amatecha wrote: post #82
geraldwhen wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guy is gender neutral, like person. It is a noun, not a pronoun. “Dude” is also gender neutral, to save you a post at a later date.

No, guy is not gender neutral. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/guy https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/guy https://www.thefreedictionary.com/guy https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/is-guy-gen... Note that wiktionary points out the fact that the female complement to "guy" is "gal". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guy

That's nice. The cultural norms where you're from aren't necessarily reflective of the use of language elsewhere though.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

hurutparittya wrote: post #71
dangus wrote: post #61

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.

Please explain to me how going "right click -> save as" on the image instead of going "right click -> copy" on the link going to improve privacy in any meaningful way.

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

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Post by geraldwhen »

hunter2_ wrote: post #64
l33t7332273 wrote: post #57

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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…

“My guy!” - joking adoration “Get this guy an award/beer/microphone!” - similar

“THIS GUY, am I right?” - used to mock/express disbelief

“Bro” is also gender neutral, just adding in to this mix.

“Bro don’t play me like that.” “What’s up bro?”

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

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Post by geraldwhen »

amatecha wrote: post #82
geraldwhen wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guy is gender neutral, like person. It is a noun, not a pronoun. “Dude” is also gender neutral, to save you a post at a later date.

No, guy is not gender neutral. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/guy https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/guy https://www.thefreedictionary.com/guy https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/is-guy-gen... Note that wiktionary points out the fact that the female complement to "guy" is "gal". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guy

I haven’t heard the word gal used in person in a long time. “Guy” I hear frequently.

“Gal” seems derisive. I would assume someone was being berated or otherwise dismissed if being called “gal”. As in, “oh I suppose there are women here that I will address differently”, hence “gal”.

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

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Post by oblio »

starkparker wrote: post #73
oblio wrote: post #65

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Not quite the same, still funny: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

Well, JWZ is the prime example considering that jwz.org would replace hotlinked images with a photo of testicles. So, every image on every blog post to jwz.org when viewed on, say, Google Reader.

Ah, you're wrong, I should have linked an image. My bad!

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

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Post by ehnto »

bombcar wrote: post #23
tmpX7dMeXU wrote: post #11

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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.

I also feel people treated irc much more ephemeral, important things were in a forum post or a bot. Discord is just treated as the sum repository of all for way too many people.

I guess it could be treated that way, but it is just a chat network to me and many. I don't expect to scroll back to infinity and find old messages.

On IRC of course, you got X amount of history when you logged on, and that was what you worked with. It does feel a lot more ephemeral, more like a real conversation.

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