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I can see how this could be annoying in some contexts e.g. going to some project's discord to get answers to a question, searching a channel and finding the per
by 63 3y ago
I can see how this could be annoying in some contexts e.g. going to some project's discord to get answers to a question, searching a channel and finding the perfect answer from awhile back but then not being able to download the file that was attached at the time. I don't think that's super likely to happen though. IME most answers I've searched for were entirely encapsulated in text anyway. The larger problem of using a discord server for such projects still exists, but I don't think this makes it all that much worse.
- alright2565 3y agoThey're not deleting old files, they're just using signed per-user urls to serve them on. You'll still see old files.
- dleink 3y ago[dead]
- an-unknown 3y agoAs far as I understand it, this change is not supposed to change anything about files posted on Discord, as long as you actually view the channel where they were posted. Means: if you find an old post on Discord with a file attached, this should still work. This change is only supposed to make it impossible to take a link to such a file and post that link outside of Discord (e.g. on a website), in which case the link should then expire within 24h after the enforcement is implemented.
- pests 3y agoYep - lets not forget links are an abstraction Discord provides for us to access the files. The files themselves would be linked to messages via some internal id, correct? So they can re-generate the link on every message view.