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

• worsedoughnut@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It literally isn’t, what the hell are you smoking?

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • worsedoughnut@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t move the goal posts. It’s 100% not an advertised feature to use Discord uploads as cloud storage or an off-platform CDN.

      The unintended side effect that you’ve so clearly described is the exact reason they’re implementing the protections in question.

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So if I sell a paid package that let’s you upload files, then I store them and make them available to unlimited other people and put the files on my global cdn to achieve that. But I specifically don’t use the magic words in my advertisement. It’s not that product it’s some magical other nameless thing

        Listen, I would be right there with you if this wasn’t a paid for feature, but it is. People pay Discord specifically for this. And now discord are neutering that feature because people are actually using it and now discord is mad. Just pay, don’t use.

        So now people who want to distribute files will end up using mega or whatever and going off app, and for what. So discord saves some money. Fuckin great

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 🤷‍♂️

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  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.”

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That comparison is poor. Kroger is a store for groceries. If DropBox started saying files were temporary, I’d think that was ridiculous. Discord should have always required a third party storage solution for longer term storage. They’re a chat app. Like zoom. And zoom provides integration with cloud file services.

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      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Discord is a free chat app that offered a paid service of file storage. Because they arent actually trying to be a chat app.

        They are trying to be a community hub. A hub that offers the bare minimum for a community for free, with paid upgrades to community care, communication, interaction, and convenience.

        Which included file storage. Which is why so many people chose them for their community hub.

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    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re beim disingenuous, discord very clearly wasn’t selling file hosting and was simply offering file transfer

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      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They literally were selling that. That was the thing they flaunted as a big reason to pay up, was the permanence of the file storage.

        If they werent aware of that, or its effect on their sales, I would be genuinely shocked. That would be like mcdonalds being surprised people wanted fries with their combo meal.

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• Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What ? Pretty sure their paid plans only allow uploading larger files. It says nothing about the longevity of said files on their servers

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