Comment on Discord will switch to temporary file links to block malware delivery

• 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.

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  • Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You make it sound like the initial investments were sustainable

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    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨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

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    • lostmypasswordanew@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wdym?

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      • Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Initial investments are usually excessively big to secure your position. The main focus isn’t to balance the budget, but to have as many earnings and growth as possible to then get rid of the defficit

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• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminder that file uploads on discord more than a few mb is a paid feature.

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  • Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    25 is more than “a few” mb

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    • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨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

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      • Rentlar@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’d only recently noticed the change, because my multipicture and short video sends were failing less often.

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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      • LufyCZ@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s no daily limit mate, you’re free to upload as many files as you want.

        Just not at once.

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• 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

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  • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨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”?

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      • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The services are way too different to compare that feature in isolation, unfortunately. But discord’s business model is not to be a cdn, and I think it’s a good move to occasionally prune a feature that doesn’t provide enough juice for the squeeze. We’ve seen much worse enshittification this year, and I doubt this move has any measurable effect on their active users. Dealing with getting your servers off of blacklists because some douche decided to host malware on your free file hosting isn’t how anyone wants to spend their days, I assure you.

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