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Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Discord isn’t exactly known for generous file-sharing limits, still, the messaging app offered a 25MB limit to free users. The company has now updated its support page to reflect the upload limit for free users has been lowered to 10MB.

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[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same here, honestly. I would have thought they'd say something like "hey, we're going to delete anything 1 year or older starting next month, and reduce that amount slowly down to 6 months with time" just to give people a general warning in case there was anything they were storing through Discord that they wanted to keep.

There's also just a ton of optimizations they could have done. Are people repeatedly uploading the same file, with the same name and contents? merge them into one CDN link. They'd probably save hundreds of terabytes of data just from reposted memes alone through a hash matching algorithm.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean.. couldn't they just move the old files from the hot CDN to cold storage? I bet the few people that go check at old messages care that much about the loading speed of a screenshot. And honestly I think PR wise deleting memories from people makes for worse article titles than smaller files

[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I suppose they could, but even cold storage has a cost, and with the scale Discord's operating at, they definitely have many terabytes of data that comes into the CDN every day, and that cost adds up if you're storing it permanently.

I also think the vast majority of users would prefer being able to upload much higher resolution images and videos, to being able to see the image they sent with their messages a year ago. I don't often go back through my messages, but I often find myself compressing or lowering the quality of the things I'm uploading on a regular basis.

They could also do the other common sense thing, which is to, on the client side of things, compress images and videos before sending them.