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

Discord isn’t exactly known for generous file-sharing limits, still, the messaging app offered a 25MB limit to free users. The company has now updated its support page to reflect the upload limit for free users has been lowered to 10MB.

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    11 days ago

    That sounds like a you problem, because a PNG screenshot of my full 5120x1440 desktop is about 850 kB.

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      11 days ago

      Interesting. Mine is 3840x1600 which should be ever so slightly less pixels.

      I have noticed the content does matter, is your background native resolution or mostly one color?

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        3840 * 1600 * 4B / 1024 / 1024 = 23.4375MiB for uncompressed RGBA (four bytes per pixel).

        That is, even if that thing was pure random pixels and would have to be stored uncompressed and you’d use a completely useless alpha channel you still don’t hit 25M.

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          11 days ago

          I did some test, i was speaking from memory.

          it depends on whats on screen.

          Just desktop is 128kb but irl that rarely what i send to people.

          Just my game launcher will bump that up to 5MB

          But the 100% real experience i have is that is try to show someone a screenshot and i get a message that files are “too powerful” so i have conditioned myself to only show the relevant half of my screen.

          So either that 25MB was a lie or i do frequently exceed it?

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        11 days ago

        I specifically opened a few apps to break up any large blocks of one color.