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Obvious trolling attempt aside, on the topic of uploading files to third party platforms, people should have really learned their lesson when uploading files to
by aniforprez 2y ago
Obvious trolling attempt aside, on the topic of uploading files to third party platforms, people should have really learned their lesson when uploading files to Discord and using that as a CDN and Discord completely killing that and hundreds of thousands of links by adding timeouts to the files hosted on their servers. It's really annoying because there are a bunch of mod servers that refuse to put their files anywhere else and so many links were completely lost to the ether. Now you need to join so many servers just to get files and it gets very annoying very fast. Please just use a file hosting solution or make a website.
- nerdjon 2y agoI actually did not know about what happened with Discord. I mean I think its still a cool concept but no reason to rely on it. Especially when its so easy and cheap to store something in S3 and stick a domain in front of it for example.
- aniforprez 2y agoThey said in their official statement[1] that it was to "block malware" but clearly they did not want to serve file traffic off-site. And yes I am very much in favour of using S3 or at least some file hosting service to dump the files where it's their job to do so. I am not sure why they were all using a chat application's file hosting as a CDN with gleeful abandon. [1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discord-will-switch-to-temporary-file-links-to-block-malware-delivery/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discord-will-...