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Discord file links will expire after a day to fight malware
(www.theverge.com)
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this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2023
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It's not as bad as the title - read the TLDR.
It's a resonably sensible change. I wouldn't be surprised if they extend it to images etc (on a longer timescale) as I keep seeing people hosting images off discord...
I don’t understand people using Discord, Twitter or Facebook links to share images. MF it will expire in a day.
Half the time when I click an image link hosted on Discord, it turns out to be a dead link. I hope this new policy will help make them dead-er so people can finally stop using them. Discord isn't Imgur, Jesus.
Oh so the files will still be hosted by discord, just the url to then will be changed every day. That makes a lot more sense but also locks you more and more into discord. Although I suspect if you are hosting meaningful files on discord then you don't care about vendor lock in.
If you're hosting meaningful files on Discord, you need a better hosting solution. Discord isn't meant for large-scale file sharing.
I agree but I know a few operations that would suffer from discord actually removing files from storage after 24 hours.
Images are files and are affected.
I guess so, it depends how they are treating them though. Image files (probably) are not being used to distribute malware and are going to create a lot more dead links.
Is this change live? We could probably test it. (Re read the article - not yet)
It's been partially live for weeks. If you copy a link to a file, including images, the link has the new parameters on it.