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.

  • Tja@programming.devEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    I’m completely out of the loop, so I might as well ask you: where is discord so established? Never used it in my life. I used IRC, ICQ and MSN in their time. Now for work Slack, teams and zoom. Signal and Telegram privately. Email for everything.

    What am I missing? What does discord provide?

    • NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      36·
      3 months ago

      Discord is used a lot for gaming groups, modding, software development, and has largely replaced forums for lots of niche communities

      • zelifcam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        40·
        3 months ago

        Which is unfortunate. Hiding projects, code and support behind discord is just wrong.

        There are Linux and open source communities on discord. I mean, just think about that for a second. These people have chosen to put their stuff on a platform that has refused to acknowledge the existence of their OS / development platform. Every other post on Reddit in the Linux community before I left was about some half assed discord workaround.

      • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        Personally I originally went to Discord because it was the alternative to skype which was increasingly becoming shittier and shittier when Microsoft bought it.

        • greenskye@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Discord is great as chat program. It should’ve only ever been used for that. It completely sucks as forum replacement. Discord should’ve had very little value to any decent organization.

      • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I have a hobby development project with a modest community and maintain a Discord server basically because it’s necessary in order to avoid reducing my potential community reach by at least 50%.

        I’m active on GitHub and respond to comments and issues there. I maintain an official thread for my project on the official forum for the game it’s related to. I also keep all documentation, downloads, and guides off Discord and on the clearnet. Discord is still easily 80% or more of where people look for information about the project.

    • yeahiknow3@lemmings.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Discord is fashionable. That’s it. The whole app is fantastically impractical if you want to use file or screen sharing. It’s just a bunch of gamers circle-jerking each other, which is a perfect way to keep them from infesting the rest of the internet.

    • greenskye@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Every single small game I play has effectively the entirety of their support, community and forums run through discord. Instead of easy to search and discover forums, I have to use crappy infinite chat logs. It sucks.

    • SouthFresh@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      ICQ

      You sure about that part? I thought they shut down. I guess they might have some user-based servers?