• Nighed@sffa.community
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    1 year ago

    It’s not as bad as the title - read the TLDR.

    It’s a resonably sensible change. I wouldn’t be surprised if they extend it to images etc (on a longer timescale) as I keep seeing people hosting images off discord…

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      1 year ago

      I don’t understand people using Discord, Twitter or Facebook links to share images. MF it will expire in a day.

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        1 year ago

        Half the time when I click an image link hosted on Discord, it turns out to be a dead link. I hope this new policy will help make them dead-er so people can finally stop using them. Discord isn’t Imgur, Jesus.

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      Oh so the files will still be hosted by discord, just the url to then will be changed every day. That makes a lot more sense but also locks you more and more into discord. Although I suspect if you are hosting meaningful files on discord then you don’t care about vendor lock in.

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        If you’re hosting meaningful files on Discord, you need a better hosting solution. Discord isn’t meant for large-scale file sharing.

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          1 year ago

          I agree but I know a few operations that would suffer from discord actually removing files from storage after 24 hours.

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        1 year ago

        I guess so, it depends how they are treating them though. Image files (probably) are not being used to distribute malware and are going to create a lot more dead links.

        Is this change live? We could probably test it. (Re read the article - not yet)