Comment on Discord will switch to temporary file links to block malware delivery
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 10 months agoIt 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.”
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 10 months 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.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months 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.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 10 months ago
No one likes change.
worsedoughnut@lemdro.id 10 months ago
This is just patently false, so you’re either completely clueless or are being dishonest to stir up outrage.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You’re beim disingenuous, discord very clearly wasn’t selling file hosting and was simply offering file transfer
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months 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.
HKayn@dormi.zone 10 months ago
Surely you can quote where the permance of file storage “was the thing they flaunted as a big reason to pay up”.
And no, a mere mention of increased upload sizes is not enough.