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.dev
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    113 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.com
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      363 months ago

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

      • zelifcam
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        393 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.world
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        113 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.

      • @vithigar@lemmy.ca
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        13 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.

    • @greenskye@lemm.ee
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      43 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
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      -13 months ago

      ICQ

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

      • fuzzy_feeling
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        93 months ago

        if you read the whole sentence it might make more sense…

        i used […] in their time.

    • @yeahiknow3
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      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.