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

submitted 3 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unlike other platforms, we store your files for as long as you need them, so it is crucial that we manage our storage sustainably

I mean, its great that they offer that, but all my files dont need to be permemnant. I would love the ability to review and delete old files

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, makes no sense that they store some pdf I was dragging over to someone one time. Super inefficient. They should allocate an amount of storage per user that then rolls and deletes the oldest files when the cap gets exceeded to make room for the new files.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's probably because it's their property now and personal data is precious

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe, but then they'd want more data, not complaining about needing to limit it. Or maybe it's just because they want lots of small files like text, and not waste it on inefficient sound and video files.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They want more data and literally can't store it efficiently enough. You can read their eula and see, they instantly own anything you upload and you no longer have rights to it, which is absolutely bonkers and pretty dubious in many countries if this is even legal. We found out when they overviewed the security of our studio and we use other communication software now because of it. They could literally argue that they own the assets to the games we make if we send concepts to each other.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Hmm, I wonder if they would get in trouble if someone uploaded child porn to their servers.