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WEB 4.69 (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

This was because Skype’s file transfer was Peer-to-peer, so it wasn’t Skype itself hosting the files. While discord is actually hosting the files, which is much more costly.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well discord could offer P2P option with no limit...

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But then they can't force you to get Discord Nitro.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    But discord supports sending messages to people who are offline. It kind of breaks the paradigm if certain features require full synchronous communication. Maybe supporting p2p transfers during a video / voice chat would work though.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Bro fuck discord

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    skype probably didn't save a copy of all your files forever, discord has to save a copy for the government!

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    P2P vs hosting...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Right, so many sites try their hardest to have every thing hosted on their own platform, then they put stupid High restrictions on what you can actually do with the content because of the fact that they're now having everything on their own host. Switching from peer to peer to Cloud hosted was in my opinion the beginning of the downfall for Skype. It removed a lot of its permissions that you could give on the platform, it broke compatibility of the Unix Community which took them two and a half years to finally fix, and it actually butchered their reliability

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Fusion 360: we have unnecessarily decided to force you to use the cloud for this product

    Also Fusion 360: *Noooo all you free users are using up too much of our server space, you will have to pay.

    Here is an idea, let me run it on my PC and it won't use any of your servers

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    so true

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I hate discord now. It's worse than reddit

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Skype and aim could transfer even more than that, skype can still do way more than 2GB

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Just use mega instead???

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    [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This is the reason I've never used discord outside voice chatting with friends a few times per month.

    A basic photo from my phone is over the file size limit. It's essentially unusable, and I'm not going to get me and my friends and family to all pay a subscription for a feature literally every other chat app provides for free. Sorry.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I have supported Discord with a nitro subscription for as long as I've had an account. It's a terrific program and there's no reason to expect premium features for nothing in return. The mentality that everything should be free is why we have so many fucking ad driven online business models and I'm over it. I pay for what I use if it's a good service.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    it's amazing that you've been downvoted for saying you pay for a service you use that's not ad-riddled junk. how else do people expect these entities to make money that pays for servers, employees, etc.? someone operates the hardware and it's not free.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Discord's monetary scheme is so backwards. Pay to be able to upload a file greater than 8 MB.. up to 100 MB. Pay to be able to upload and use animated emojis, pay to be able to use emojis from other channels. These are not features worth paying for.

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