Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” - Dexerto
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Discord is lowering the upload limit for free users from 25MB to 10MB, citing operational and financial reasons.

Discord isn’t exactly known for generous file-sharing limits, still, the messaging app offered a 25MB limit to free users. The company has now updated its support page to reflect the upload limit for free users has been lowered to 10MB.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    12 days ago

    25 MB wasn’t even enough to send a single full res screenshot of my desktop.

    Its 2024 and we still lack the basic functionality of file sharing between peers without a corp dictator restricting and snooping.

    Not that the functionality does not exist (p2p, literally) but if my grandma cant receive the family pictures its not basic.

    EDIT: it is possible i am remembering this from when it was 8MB.

    Empty desktop is just a few kb but it was not that hard to open enough stuff to exceed 10MB

    Til that i have been sending screenshots of only half my screen for not reason

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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      12 days ago

      That sounds like a you problem, because a PNG screenshot of my full 5120x1440 desktop is about 850 kB.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Interesting. Mine is 3840x1600 which should be ever so slightly less pixels.

        I have noticed the content does matter, is your background native resolution or mostly one color?

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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          12 days ago

          3840 * 1600 * 4B / 1024 / 1024 = 23.4375MiB for uncompressed RGBA (four bytes per pixel).

          That is, even if that thing was pure random pixels and would have to be stored uncompressed and you’d use a completely useless alpha channel you still don’t hit 25M.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      12 days ago

      The issue is the absence of being able to port forward in a lot of places. UPNP exists on some networks but it’s usually disabled. But if we want actual peer to peer we’re going to need to implement some way to accept incoming connections EVERYWHERE.

        • Strykker@programming.devEnglish
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          12 days ago

          Gonna be real here, I’m in tech, there is no fucking way I’m gonna open my PC to the entire fucking internet. Vulnerabilities are everywhere and no code is perfect. Firewalls and nat help stop so many attacks from the start.

          Even if ipv6 is common I will assume most implementations will be nat based.

          • FrederikNJS@lemm.eeEnglish
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            12 days ago

            IPv6 does not require you to open your machine to the Internet, even without making use of a NAT. Sure you get an IP that’s valid on the whole internet, but that doesn’t mean that anyone can send you traffic.