Files are still stored permanently and links inside the client stay permanent as well, only links accessed externally are affected. I don’t like Discord either but anyone relying on it as their personal free CDN had it coming for them.
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Zarxrax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah… In sure malware is the reason. It’s not that they don’t want people using discord for file hosting.
lea@feddit.de 10 months ago
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Still, it’s not a file hosting platform. 🤷♂️ it should have been temporary to begin with.
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It literally is, it’s part of their paid plans.
worsedoughnut@lemdro.id 10 months ago
It literally isn’t, what the hell are you smoking?
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
you think a service you pay for that lets you upload files to them, to share the files with an unlimited amount of other people, is not a file hosting platform? even though it hosts files for you? and you pay for the service?
what do you think it is?
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It shouldn’t have been. That’s their bad—misuse of file hosting is an obvious result of offering file hosting. Manage your own files. Put them on GitHub or something. And if they’re private they shouldn’t be on any cloud to begin with 🤷♂️
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
… But it is, and they offer for people to pay them in order to function as such.
“Kroger shouldnt sell groceries. 🤷♀️ Grow your own celery, if you intended to eat it and not sell it you shouldnt have bought it from a store to begin with.”
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What ? Pretty sure their paid plans only allow uploading larger files. It says nothing about the longevity of said files on their servers
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
They wouldnt have been as popular if they had been temporary from the beginning.
Shoulda woulda coulda, this is now a thing their community has come to expect and rely on their platform being capable of. And the change of such will break a number of channels.
darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Eh if they don’t want people using their service that way, that’s their right. People who care about it that much should host a matrix instance.
lostmypasswordanew@feddit.de 10 months ago
This is typical enshittification. Make animpossibly good service to gain marketshare. Then, make it worse once you’ve eliminated all competition and dominate the market.
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Reminder that file uploads on discord more than a few mb is a paid feature.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
Did anything about my comment imply I thought this change was illegal? This has nothing to do with their rights