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Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 10 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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[–] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The problem is discord never deletes files, no matter how old they are. So they have a perpetually growing storage need

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

seems like a skill issue to me. Surely they would delete them on the banishment of a server, old servers die pretty frequently. Channels are deleted. Etc.

[–] GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

These companies hoard data they might have an use for but not even know how yet. Training AI and shit. Deleting stuff ain't in their dictionary.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

we really do live in a dystopia don't we.

Anyway this seems like a great excuse to not limit the file uploads, and just pay for more storage considering you could like, sell it, but what do i know.

[–] GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is more like the data could make money in the future but is not making money right now so they don't have infinite money for storage. If they had I am sure they would be happy to increase free storage limits.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i guess we should ask google how they're doing with the 15gb of free storage thing.

[–] GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Google has a lot more money

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

this is also true, but they do have a very successful platform, even though their two primary ventures youtube, and google, don't seem to be immediately productive, though i guess google drive storage is probably a different cost to a platform like discord since it's something people use every day.