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.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    92·
    2 months ago

    Interesting. Mine is 3840x1600 which should be ever so slightly less pixels.

    I have noticed the content does matter, is your background native resolution or mostly one color?

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      33·
      2 months ago

      3840 * 1600 * 4B / 1024 / 1024 = 23.4375MiB for uncompressed RGBA (four bytes per pixel).

      That is, even if that thing was pure random pixels and would have to be stored uncompressed and you’d use a completely useless alpha channel you still don’t hit 25M.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        I did some test, i was speaking from memory.

        it depends on whats on screen.

        Just desktop is 128kb but irl that rarely what i send to people.

        Just my game launcher will bump that up to 5MB

        But the 100% real experience i have is that is try to show someone a screenshot and i get a message that files are “too powerful” so i have conditioned myself to only show the relevant half of my screen.

        So either that 25MB was a lie or i do frequently exceed it?

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      I specifically opened a few apps to break up any large blocks of one color.