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

submitted 2 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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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 85 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Huh, I wonder how enshitified it has to get before I stop seeing discord on FOSS projects.

It begins lol.

[–] dan@upvote.au 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

discord on FOSS projects

I don't understand why this was even a thing to begin with. FOSS projects using non-FOSS platforms is kinda weird, especially platforms with unclear financial situations like Discord.

[–] Kayana@ttrpg.network 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because you don't need to have significant experience or rent a VPS in order to do that, and I can respect that. We don't need to force FOSS developers to become proficient in everything.

What needs to happen is some kind of tool (ideally FOSS) that lets you spin up an actual forum with the same difficulty to set it up as Discord.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Because you don't need to have significant experience or rent a VPS in order to do that, and I can respect that

I'm not saying you have to self-host... You could still use something that's open-source and remotely hosted.

Sentry (error logging and bug reporting system) is like this for example. They have a hosted plan, including a generous free plan for open-source projects, but Sentry itself is open-source.

[–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

That looks like a really nice policy. But my question then becomes, what happens if the company sells out someday? What if they get bought out by a larger company, or a private equity firm? Did they take funding, and if so, how much leverage do the funders have to influence them to make money and cut out programs like this?

It's great to see companies trying to break that trend and I highly commend them for it! But we have already seen this pattern a million times before and it always ends due to something similar to this.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

It is, but then again many (most) are hosted on GitHub.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 2 months ago

That they don't collect as much user data is not enshittification. That is when greed kills it. They have been greedy a long time but not being able to hoard as much free user data is a good thing