Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”

so many people left reddit and fled to discord. So sad. Discord was ALWAYS going to enshittify itself to death, but okay people.

I'm surprised they didn't put a time limit on the storage since they are not a file hosting platform.

Dammit now I have to reduce the block size of my discord-based cold storage filesystem.

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The enshitification is progressing nicely!

Well that didn't last very long. It was 8 MB for like six years and then it just went to 25 MB maybe a year ago and now we're back down to 10 MB.

I'm surprised they aren't offsetting the cost by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is

Storage (and transfer and processing) has only ever gotten cheaper, but okay.

Please discord die already

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If Discord was open source, I actually would not mind paying a fee for it. Fixed or reccurring, ideally the former. But that's never happening. And forget buying that Nitro thing.

Discord's enshitification continues.

They decreased it?? People always complain about max file sizes being too small.

Also, how is telegram able to offer 2 GB per file and 4 GB on premium? In comparison, that seems astronomical!

I gotta admit, I have no problem with introducing a completely new feature and locking it to paying members. But taking away an already existing feature from non-members, or limiting it in some way, is simply outrageous. They could've kept the upload limit at 25MB, and increased it for Nitro users to something like an entire gigabyte. This would've encouraged people to get Nitro. But lowering the upload limit for free users would just encourage them to leave and find an alternative (and the problem is that there aren't any viable ones because they aren't used as much).

Revolt, people

Maybe they should just delete their data every month. Holding 1 20mb file or 2 10mb files aren’t much different

I am fortunate enough to know how to set up VMs and use Linux, so I run my own IRC server with a web interface (TheLounge). I can set the upload limit to what I want and settled for 100MB. This way my friends and I are not at the mercy of some proprietary software.

I do pay for a dedicated server that I also use to host my games' servers and also a mumble server, but it's so worth it, just to have control over our stuff.

Easy fix, don't store any of it on the cloud. The client's PC has plenty more than 25MB

I've never sent a picture through discord.

Also, if storing all that data is hard...trim all the chat logs after awhile....oh wait...then you wouldn't be able to keep records of everything everyone's ever done on there.

Seriously discord i was soo happy about the 25mb upload limit but there are better alternatives (lin.la pomf se,catbox)

good ol' capitalism, corporations need ever growing profits

to be fair though, the limit was 8MB originally, then they raised it to 25MB