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People are using Discord as a file hosting service a la Imgur? Yikes. Hard to blame Discord for cracking down on that, considering it's not a service they inten

People are using Discord as a file hosting service a la Imgur? Yikes. Hard to blame Discord for cracking down on that, considering it's not a service they intentionally offer.

unleaded 3y ago
you can upload any file below 25mb for free unless it's malware, it's a direct link that works everywhere, and it's quick because you always have discord open. if it's something not too important why wouldn't you?
- Algent 3y ago
  It's basically a free S3-type storage, easy to use with little to no limits or controls (even a deleted upload used to stay valid for weeks). I'm surprised this went on that long even if size limit stop piracy it could still easily used on a large scale for suspicious pictures hosting.
  - RockRobotRock 3y ago
    Being able to upload unlimited 50MB (with nitro) files with infinite retention is kinda wild in and of itself. There’s a reason every email provider has storage quotas.
    - sScTE9qEMCxEk34 3y ago
      There's also a reason that they and every other provider give/gave free "unlimited" storage. And a reason they're all cracking down.
      - RockRobotRock 3y ago
        Having a p2p file transfer built in would be amazing. Would save them some money
- spondylosaurus 3y ago
  > it's a direct link that works everywhere TBH I'd always assumed Discord links only worked in Discord. Which sounds like is how things will work, going forward.
- d3w4s9 3y ago
  Because it could go away any day? And is "always have discord open" a reasonable general assumption?
  - unleaded 3y ago
    yes for many young online people but probably not most hacker news users. and if it's worked for 8 years i don't think it's unreasonable to think it'll work for a few more
  - HansHamster 3y ago
    Haven't used discord in years. So it clearly doesn't apply in general...
  - burnished 3y ago
    No more unreasonable than always being connected to the internet - its not like there is a generalized benefit to deactivating it when its not in use. I mean, you probably don't go and unplug your modem when you get done with a browsing session right? Or turn off your phone when you aren't actively engaged in a phone call?/writing a text message?
rhd 3y ago
Yep, they're using it for malware delivery as well- not uncommon to find Dropper's that download additional stages of the malware from discord.
UnlockedSecrets 3y ago
Yes, For a little while even it became a meme to compress all of shrek down to less then 8MiB using AV1 as that was the largest file you could host on discord without premium. It's not 'great' but considering many websites load more javascript then this entire 1.5 hour movie, It's impressive in it's own right. https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/hb039t/8mib_shrek_is_back/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/hb039t/8mib_shrek_is_b...
- codetrotter 3y ago
  It’s a fun experiment. Reminds me of years ago watching some movies on the screens of small iPods. Also I will give it that it’s a surprising amount of movement for being just 6fps, that file. Fun experiment, but not really watchable with this much loss of detail :p (The movies we watched on small iPod screens were surprisingly watchable, thanks to having good audio and image quality in spite of being somewhere around 320x160 px resolution.)
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  - amatecha 3y ago
    heck yeah, I watched an entire season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on an iPod 5.5G Video :) Those were 320x240, maybe you meant a smaller iPod though haha
    - codetrotter 3y ago
      > 320x240, maybe you meant a smaller iPod though Ours were probably 320x240 too. It was many years ago so I didn’t remember exactly :p Although, for a widescreen movie it might use less than 240 of the available vertical size. For example if the aspect of the original video is 16:9, then a 320 px wide resized version of the video will be about 180 px tall. So yeah, my guess is that the screen was 240 tall and that some of the videos we watched on it may have been as little as 180 px tall :D

People are using Discord as a file hosting service a la Imgur? Yikes. Hard to blame Discord for cracking down on that, considering it's not a service they intentionally offer.

unleaded 3y ago

you can upload any file below 25mb for free unless it's malware, it's a direct link that works everywhere, and it's quick because you always have discord open. if it's something not too important why wouldn't you?

Algent 3y ago
It's basically a free S3-type storage, easy to use with little to no limits or controls (even a deleted upload used to stay valid for weeks). I'm surprised this went on that long even if size limit stop piracy it could still easily used on a large scale for suspicious pictures hosting.
- RockRobotRock 3y ago
  Being able to upload unlimited 50MB (with nitro) files with infinite retention is kinda wild in and of itself. There’s a reason every email provider has storage quotas.
  - sScTE9qEMCxEk34 3y ago
    There's also a reason that they and every other provider give/gave free "unlimited" storage. And a reason they're all cracking down.
    - RockRobotRock 3y ago
      Having a p2p file transfer built in would be amazing. Would save them some money
spondylosaurus 3y ago
> it's a direct link that works everywhere TBH I'd always assumed Discord links only worked in Discord. Which sounds like is how things will work, going forward.
d3w4s9 3y ago
Because it could go away any day? And is "always have discord open" a reasonable general assumption?
- unleaded 3y ago
  yes for many young online people but probably not most hacker news users. and if it's worked for 8 years i don't think it's unreasonable to think it'll work for a few more
- HansHamster 3y ago
  Haven't used discord in years. So it clearly doesn't apply in general...
- burnished 3y ago
  No more unreasonable than always being connected to the internet - its not like there is a generalized benefit to deactivating it when its not in use. I mean, you probably don't go and unplug your modem when you get done with a browsing session right? Or turn off your phone when you aren't actively engaged in a phone call?/writing a text message?

rhd 3y ago

Yep, they're using it for malware delivery as well- not uncommon to find Dropper's that download additional stages of the malware from discord.

UnlockedSecrets 3y ago

Yes, For a little while even it became a meme to compress all of shrek down to less then 8MiB using AV1 as that was the largest file you could host on discord without premium. It's not 'great' but considering many websites load more javascript then this entire 1.5 hour movie, It's impressive in it's own right. https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/hb039t/8mib_shrek_is_back/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/hb039t/8mib_shrek_is_b...

codetrotter 3y ago
It’s a fun experiment. Reminds me of years ago watching some movies on the screens of small iPods. Also I will give it that it’s a surprising amount of movement for being just 6fps, that file. Fun experiment, but not really watchable with this much loss of detail :p (The movies we watched on small iPod screens were surprisingly watchable, thanks to having good audio and image quality in spite of being somewhere around 320x160 px resolution.)
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- amatecha 3y ago
  heck yeah, I watched an entire season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on an iPod 5.5G Video :) Those were 320x240, maybe you meant a smaller iPod though haha
  - codetrotter 3y ago
    > 320x240, maybe you meant a smaller iPod though Ours were probably 320x240 too. It was many years ago so I didn’t remember exactly :p Although, for a widescreen movie it might use less than 240 of the available vertical size. For example if the aspect of the original video is 16:9, then a 320 px wide resized version of the video will be about 180 px tall. So yeah, my guess is that the screen was 240 tall and that some of the videos we watched on it may have been as little as 180 px tall :D