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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.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (40 children)

25 MB wasn't even enough to send a single full res screenshot of my desktop.

Its 2024 and we still lack the basic functionality of file sharing between peers without a corp dictator restricting and snooping.

Not that the functionality does not exist (p2p, literally) but if my grandma cant receive the family pictures its not basic.

EDIT: it is possible i am remembering this from when it was 8MB.

Empty desktop is just a few kb but it was not that hard to open enough stuff to exceed 10MB

Til that i have been sending screenshots of only half my screen for not reason

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (21 children)

The issue is the absence of being able to port forward in a lot of places. UPNP exists on some networks but it's usually disabled. But if we want actual peer to peer we're going to need to implement some way to accept incoming connections EVERYWHERE.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that what things like wormhole are made to deal with?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Firefox: Browser missing required feature. This application needs support for WebSockets, WebRTC, and WebAssembly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Where do you see that? I just sent a file from Firefox on Debian to Vivaldi on Android with it to test.

There's also just plain wormhole (https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole) as an application for Windows, Mac, and Linux if that web instance doesn't work.

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