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Except it’s the same memes over and over again so if there’s even the simplest deduplication their storage costs would be orders of magnitude less. How many ne
by koolba 3y ago
Except it’s the same memes over and over again so if there’s even the simplest deduplication their storage costs would be orders of magnitude less.
How many new images are actually uploaded daily? It has to be tiny compared to the same reaction gifs used over and over again.
- _a9 3y agoAside from the people that abuse the service to host files (using free accounts or using accounts with sniped nitro) there are a lot of bots that do image/gif generation that upload directly as attachments. You could see people using multiple commands, while generating multiple gifs, until they get one they want to save. Theres also servers like Midjourney. I imagine a lot of what Discord stores is dead files that will never be accessed after the first time. Another note is that a lot of the meme gifs that are used come from the Tenor and Giphy integration which are only temporarily hosted on Discord's media proxy unless a user downloads it and reuploads it.
- drewtato 3y agoThe reaction gifs specifically (from the gif picker) are hosted by Tenor. But surely they're deduplicating the other images already. I've never seen any evidence either way. Making temporary URLs would still help whether they're deduplicating or not. And almost certainly they're spending most of the storage on videos that have only been uploaded once. It takes a lot of 100KB images to equal a 50MB video.