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Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” (www.dexerto.com)

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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.

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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.ee 83 points 1 month ago

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

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month 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.ee 32 points 1 month 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.

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

Guys out here sending BMPs…

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I did some test, i was speaking from memory.

it depends on whats on screen.

Just desktop is 128kb but irl that rarely what i send to people.

Just my game launcher will bump that up to 5MB

But the 100% real experience i have is that is try to show someone a screenshot and i get a message that files are “too powerful” so i have conditioned myself to only show the relevant half of my screen.

So either that 25MB was a lie or i do frequently exceed it?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

I specifically opened a few apps to break up any large blocks of one color.

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