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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 lnxg33k1 »

ehnto wrote: post #8
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 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.

I’ve done it, and found myself back in the middle of wars vim vs emacs and arch vs all and slack vs all, I agree it was the same on IRC, but as someone who has lived through it while in middle schoo, I have no desire to go through it again ^^

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 #39
sjkna wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, I know what the tokens do. But how does this guy know they'll start working by the end of the year?

"she/her it/its" right on the page -- not a guy.

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.

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

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Post by prophesi »

personjerry wrote: post #24
treyd wrote: post #9

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> any of you old nerds yearning for the IRC golden years should try and find a discord server to join. If we're still on IRC then we mostly would clearly have an objection to using discord for the very many legitimate reasons to object to it, such as the mass data collection, phone number requirements for many users, lack of control / selfhosting capability, or just general requirement to use (very heavy) nonlibre so…

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.

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Post by codetrotter »

amatecha wrote: post #38
codetrotter wrote: post #33

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It’s a fun experiment. Reminds me of years ago watching some movies on the screens of small iPods. Also I will give it that it’s a surprising amount of movement for being just 6fps, that file. Fun experiment, but not really watchable with this much loss of detail :p (The movies we watched on small iPod screens were surprisingly watchable, thanks to having good audio and image quality in spite of being somewhere aroun…

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 some of the videos we watched on it may have been as little as 180 px tall :D

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Post by stevenpetryk »

geraldwhen wrote: post #42
amatecha wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"she/her it/its" right on the page -- not a guy.

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.

Oh come on. Guy is sometimes gender neutral, but is overwhelmingly often not.

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Post by RockRobotRock »

Algent wrote: post #10
unleaded wrote: post #5

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you can upload any file below 25mb for free unless it's malware, it's a direct link that works everywhere, and it's quick because you always have discord open. if it's something not too important why wouldn't you?

It's basically a free S3-type storage, easy to use with little to no limits or controls (even a deleted upload used to stay valid for weeks). I'm surprised this went on that long even if size limit stop piracy it could still easily used on a large scale for suspicious pictures hosting.

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.

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

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Post by vel0city »

yawnxyz wrote: post #40

This is pretty much what Airtable went through last year, and phased out general file hosting. It'd be nice if either Discord or Airtable let you give an S3 or R2 bucket URL and you can just pay for hosting yourself, without the file expirations. Doing that makes it a headache for everyone. I like how Notion handles linked images- they keep the original URL around but also duplicates the file into their own S3; if yo…

You really think giving Discord an S3 link and getting IAM permissions straight is a more reasonable ask for the average Discord user who just wants to share a cat meme with their friends?

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Post by DoctorOW »

geraldwhen wrote: post #42
amatecha wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"she/her it/its" right on the page -- not a guy.

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.
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