Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” - Dexerto
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Discord is lowering the upload limit for free users from 25MB to 10MB, citing operational and financial reasons.

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.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    01·
    2 months ago

    Discord continues down it’s path to total enshittification, which is exactly what I told everyone would happen when this fucking dogshit app got pushed on me around 2018 or so.

    It’s a private company with a profit motive. Fucking shocker that it enshittifies. /s

    Fucking dipshit gamers not knowing any better.

    I was promoting Matrix/Riot.IM (now Element) and nobody gave a shit because it was too hard to use even though it mostly has the same interface as Discord. (Which, by the way, fuck this interface.)

    • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      What an overreaction. Also FYI the free file limit was 8MB two years ago before they raised the limit to 25MB, so if anything it’s gotten better.

    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Ok but why are you so angry about it?

      I’ve been using it for years and haven’t had to pay a dime.

      How have they harmed you with their free app?

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        Because if you didn’t expect this path when you signed up you were naive.

        Now everyone complains about it but for people who had already been paying attention: this was par for the course. Of course this was going to be the outcome. Why should I be happy that everyone fell for the promises of a for-profit private company again?

        Like why do you think we are on Lemmy for fucks sake? Is it not for the same reasons??

        How many times do we have to be fucked by private corporations for people to learn they don’t care about us?

        But every time its all “but they have a better feature set so its okay that they might enshittify in the long-run!” Literally same shit is being said about Bluesky over Mastodon right now. Bluesky being a Public Benefit Corporation means about as much as OpenAI being a non-profit.

        • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          The problem being, there aren’t many alternatives around for discord. And even the ones that exist have issues of their own. Mostly relating to use base and entry barrier, in the case of the open source alternatives.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            0·
            2 months ago

            No, literally the problem is most people would rather give in and use a sleek corporate option every time.

            No matter how many times they get fucked by doing that.

            It’s a choice to keep getting fucked.

            • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
              02·
              2 months ago

              Lololol y’all are insane.

              I’ve been using discord for free for like 8 years now. But now I can only share 10mb files and I’M FUCKED 🤣

              So much entitlement.