• eatyourglory@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    This was because Skype’s file transfer was Peer-to-peer, so it wasn’t Skype itself hosting the files. While discord is actually hosting the files, which is much more costly.

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    1 year ago

    Recently I wanted to transfer one 20GB file to my brother and I ended up using FileZilla.

    But before that I tried some quick effortless solutions (like opening Skype/Teams and using that) and I failed.

    I miss opening the IM app and quickly transfer something.

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    1 year ago

    Back in 2010 my best friend at the time sent me an entire pirated copy of need for speed most wanted in a zip file through Skype. It took the entire day for it to send and then it took my weak ass computer until I woke up the next morning to unzip the folder the game was on. I remember waking up and being overjoyed that it was at 97% completion. I only had to wait another few minutes for it to finish.

    I still have that exe to this day. It’s basically impossible to play the game otherwise. I actually store the exe on my phone since it has so much storage and it’s easy to move it over thanks to USB 3.0 and higher. I do that with a lot of games actually.

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    1 year ago

    Check out croc, a slick little tool to allow you to send files from one computer to another. No port forwarding, encryption built in.

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    1 year ago

    “Hello, File Seller, I am going into uploading and need your strongest files”. “My files are too powerful for you, traveller”.

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      1 year ago

      Right, so many sites try their hardest to have every thing hosted on their own platform, then they put stupid High restrictions on what you can actually do with the content because of the fact that they’re now having everything on their own host. Switching from peer to peer to Cloud hosted was in my opinion the beginning of the downfall for Skype. It removed a lot of its permissions that you could give on the platform, it broke compatibility of the Unix Community which took them two and a half years to finally fix, and it actually butchered their reliability

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        1 year ago

        Fusion 360: we have unnecessarily decided to force you to use the cloud for this product

        Also Fusion 360: *Noooo all you free users are using up too much of our server space, you will have to pay.

        Here is an idea, let me run it on my PC and it won’t use any of your servers

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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      1 year ago

      Hard to disagree but with internet we had back in the day it was hard to send large files with just about anything