Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” - Dexerto
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Discord is lowering the upload limit for free users from 25MB to 10MB, citing operational and financial reasons.

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.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      There isn’t a full alternative, but if you just want text chat with some voice chat added on there are options like Matrix.

      • ZeroTwo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        3 months ago

        I haven’t heard of Matrix but I’ve heard of Revolt.

        Matrix any good?

        • L_Acacia@lemmy.oneEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          Revolt tries to be a discord clone/replacement and suffer from some of the same issues. Matrix happens to have a lot of feature in common, but is focused on privacy and security at its core.

      • Starbuncle@lemmy.caEnglish
        182·
        3 months ago

        Matrix is a laggy dumpsterfire. Messages take longer to send in Matrix than they do in Lemmy, and Lemmy isn’t even supposed to be a real-time chat app.

        • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          Try Element X if you have a mobile. It’s rebuilt on the new sdk and offers a new architecture that has messages come in way faster than on Element (original)

          • Starbuncle@lemmy.caEnglish
            7·
            3 months ago

            The first time yeah, but I tried it again on another instance and it was better (at least it didn’t fail to load half the time), but still super slow. The 2nd time is what I was talking about.

              • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                5·
                3 months ago

                Guessing at one reason:

                It feels good to know that you’re not signing up for someone’s instance that they’re just trying out admining for the first time and maybe if they’re too busy to do the proper updates next weekend they’ll just close shop.

                (And by shop I mean fantastic free volunteering effort of course!)

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          My homeserver is a one-person Conduit installation, and slowness is not something I have encountered. However, in groupchats that happened to be encrypted there were moments when my messages failed to decrypt for others. That might’ve been due to my own carelessness with the VPS though.