Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” - eviltoast

Discord is lowering the upload limit for free users from 25MB to 10MB, citing operational and financial reasons.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Well if you didn’t charge so much fucking money for Nitro maybe people would actually buy it. $10 a month is a little silly when you barely get anything new from it besides features that I can only describe as “bragging rights.” The only benefit I ever received from Nitro was the increased upload limit. Which is nice, but not nice enough for me to keep paying.

    • FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      I’m not big on either chat perks or games library as a subscription but when they had the games I could justify the cost because I basically got 2 services

      Anyways I like Vencord which has a very basic fake nitro (for example sends custom emojis as a sticker but not as a reaction to a message so it’s pretty limited) but it also has SO MANY QoL and customization plugins

      Edit: also services like proton drive and google drive exist some people forget that (myself included hence the edit)

    • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Let me rephrase: “Offering free storage is expensive because you’re more likely not to pay us for nitro.”

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Make it zero…I really dgaf about anything you offer.

    This is ventrilo…that’s it. Voice chat while I play games. Easy to replace your program. I would never give discord money for anything, literally no point.