Comment on Discord will switch to temporary file links to block malware delivery
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 7 months agoThey 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 7 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 7 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.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You make it sound like the initial investments were sustainable
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 7 months ago
If their plan was to intentionally make unsustainable investments and then gut features later on, they should be shuttered now before they waste any more users time and money
lostmypasswordanew@feddit.de 7 months ago
Wdym?
echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Reminder that file uploads on discord more than a few mb is a paid feature.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 7 months ago
25 is more than “a few” mb
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Ignoring the fact that they were clearly talking in orders of magnitude, it was 8MB for a very long time and only recently got increased to 25
echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fine, free gets you 20 floppy disks worth!! Omg, so useful. Four second heavil compressed reaction mp4s might fit fine. Don’t go more than ten.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 7 months ago
Did anything about my comment imply I thought this change was illegal? This has nothing to do with their rights
darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I didn’t intend to imply that, my statement can be rephrased as “if users don’t like this change, they should use an alternative, because discord is going to do what makes sense to discord.” File hosting is ubiquitous and cheap, so it isn’t a big deal. I don’t work at discord, but I do work at a company that has file hosting as one of its features, and combating malicious misuse of that feature is expensive and a pain in the ass. If I could get away with not offering file hosting, I’d be tempted to remove it.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 7 months ago
Do you think your company could get away with offering a paid service that included file hosting, and then suddenly announcing that the file hosting was now only temporary?
Or would you expect your customers to abandon you over any claims of “just find an alternative”?