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[-] JshKlsn@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

This is the reason I've never used discord outside voice chatting with friends a few times per month.

A basic photo from my phone is over the file size limit. It's essentially unusable, and I'm not going to get me and my friends and family to all pay a subscription for a feature literally every other chat app provides for free. Sorry.

[-] pokemaster787@vlemmy.net 31 points 1 year ago

A basic photo from my phone is over the file size limit. It’s essentially unusable

For a while this was a problem, but now Discord just auto-compresses photos over 8MB. Obviously this isn't ideal if you want to actually share the full-size image, but for most use-cases a compressed photo is fine. Almost every other chat app is also compressing your images, it just isn't telling you it's doing it outright.

[-] JshKlsn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

When did they start this? Because I last tried a few months ago to send a photo and it was telling me it was too large, and to buy nitro. It was ~8.6MB

[-] pokemaster787@vlemmy.net 9 points 1 year ago

Years ago, as far as I can tell. Are you using an older version of the app maybe? I've not had Discord outright refuse to send pictures for ~2 years now, for a while it would ask to compress them, now it'll just automatically compress them (unless it's so big it can't of course).

Back in April they also increased the limit to 25MB, so even less stuff should need to get compressed anyway.

I believe it doesn't always work for whatever reason. I had images from my phone get the 'over 8mb' message sometimes only a few months ago as well, sometimes it worked but other times it didn't

[-] agarorn@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe he send the full file and not just the photo via the photo option.

[-] whosdadog@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Only the phone apps auto-compress, the desktop and Web versions do not.

[-] ThEgg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Discord's monetary scheme is so backwards. Pay to be able to upload a file greater than 8 MB.. up to 100 MB. Pay to be able to upload and use animated emojis, pay to be able to use emojis from other channels. These are not features worth paying for.

[-] teamchuckles@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

What would you suggest Discords monetization system be instead?

[-] Nelots@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A loooot of people seem to completely disagree considering how many people pay for nitro even after they removed discriminators (and the ability to change them with nitro).

[-] JeffCraig@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have supported Discord with a nitro subscription for as long as I've had an account. It's a terrific program and there's no reason to expect premium features for nothing in return. The mentality that everything should be free is why we have so many fucking ad driven online business models and I'm over it. I pay for what I use if it's a good service.

[-] kittyrunningnoise@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

it's amazing that you've been downvoted for saying you pay for a service you use that's not ad-riddled junk. how else do people expect these entities to make money that pays for servers, employees, etc.? someone operates the hardware and it's not free.

[-] krakenx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's the same reason I do. A place for friends to hang out online free from ads and algorithms manipulating the conversation is such a rarity these days. All the features they give you for free are nice enough I don't mind tossing them a few bucks for a theme and an animated avatar hat. Hopefully if enough of us do, we can avoid the enshittening.

That 8mb limit was annoying though. Glad they raised it.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I fully expect Discord to pull a spez sometime in the future. Probably not as destructive and blatantly anti user as that asshole, but bad nonetheless. Gotta remember that even if it's already self-sustainable with the current nitros, investors want ROI and they want it NOW.

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