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

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Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” - Dexerto
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Why 0 compression?

Because it was never a problem. It's a little bit faster for encoding and decoding, and no service ever had problems with the file size. Especially not my selfhosted stuff. Every service, except discord. As I now have resorted to using Vencord or just uploading most media to Nextcloud, I don't have that many issues with it anymore, anyway.

It’s a little bit faster for encoding and decoding

On the other hand, the time spent uploading/downloading much smaller files probably more than makes up for that, although even that difference might get pretty small with modern internet connections.

Especially in times where using WiFi is faster than ethernet, because my network ports are only gigabit.

Because it was never a problem.

But you literally started this thread because it’s a problem. And then you spent more time defending your bad choice on a Lemmy discussion than you will ever save in your entire life decompressing PNGs.