muffinlord

the antithesis of engagement

of course it was a tax dodge but he ran it like it was a real thing
a real person using a fake name.
battletech, video games, ham radio, model kits, cars, all kinds of stuff


twilight-sparkle
@twilight-sparkle
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SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

once again using my beaky to bang on a very large drum, comically labelled

"discord is not a CDN discord is not a file host discord is not a wiki discord is not an archive discord is not your website"

the breakage is going to suck, but it was never a reasonable thing to try to make a chat app for gamers™ into load bearing internet infrastructure


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

remember to put your ref sheets somewhere else


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in reply to @twilight-sparkle's post:

There's literally no reason they had to do this, I mean, limits traffic, less bills to pay, but this really is kind of sneaky. Emotionally, they didn't have to, logically, makes sense. Either or, I do not like it.

That's true, my main gripe is that Discord is already a pretty closed off space as is. I'm well aware that this will help keep the lights on, but my little dumb goblin in my head is like "NAURHGHGHHG" about there being yet more things off limits to the outside, as absolutely illogical as it is to feel that way over something that makes so much sense.

in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

Whenever you copy a link to a file (image, video, etc) from discord, it attaches a access token to the URL (you see it as &bunchofnumbersandsuch on the URL).

The links still work with the access token attached, but it gives discord the ability to invalidate those links at their whim. I suspect they have a bunch of criteria for invalidating links, most likely after a set amount of time, how often it gets used, etc, to prevent them from being used as a free CDN or as a malware host. The access tokens are a bit of a messy compromise between preventing abuse and usability.

TL;DR: Don't remove the jibberish from the URL, it'll still work for sharing images etc, but not for anything long term.