Skype's 2004 Gigachad File Transfers vs. Discord's 2022 Soyjack Limits
Description
A two-panel 'GigaChad vs. Virgin' meme comparing Skype and Discord file transfer limits. The left panel, labeled '2004', shows the muscular GigaChad figure with the Skype logo, alongside text highlighting its ability to 'transfer files of up to 2 gigabytes.' The right panel, labeled '2022', shows a scrawny figure with the Discord logo and a screenshot of a Discord error message: 'Your files are too powerful! Max file size is 8MB. Upgrade to Discord Nitro for 100MB file limit!'. This meme humorously critiques the perceived regression in functionality in modern applications, where a basic feature like file transfer size has become significantly more restricted in a popular modern platform (Discord) compared to its older predecessor (Skype), often as a way to monetize users through premium subscriptions. It taps into nostalgia and frustration with feature limitations in current software
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Modern software engineering: invent a dozen new frameworks to build a chat app that's 100x slower and 250x less capable at transferring a file than a VoIP client from 2004
2004 Skype’s supernodes would happily shove a 2 GB ISO through DSL; 2022 Discord calls a 9 MB crash log “too powerful” unless I buy Nitro - turns out bandwidth doubles every 18 months, then product managers halve it for ARPU
Remember when we thought Moore's Law applied to file upload limits? Turns out it's actually an inverse relationship with subscription revenue models - the more powerful our infrastructure becomes, the smaller the free tier gets
Ah yes, the march of progress: from Skype's generous 2GB P2P transfers in 2004 to Discord's 8MB ceiling in 2022 - because nothing says 'modern cloud infrastructure' like artificially crippling file transfers to upsell Nitro subscriptions. At least Skype understood that when you're debugging production at 2 AM, you need to send that 500MB heap dump without converting it to a torrent file first
2004 Skype: NAT traversal and supernodes; 2022 Discord: 8MB unless you subscribe - UDP hole punching replaced by wallet punching
2004 Skype: 2GB over P2P supernodes. 2022 Discord: “8MB, upgrade.” Translation: your file isn’t too powerful - our egress bill is
Skype 2004 devoured your monorepo zips; Discord Nitro chokes on a single Docker layer. Progress in DX, amirite?
Skype files are p2p, Discord stores them on their servers. Comment deleted
skill issue Comment deleted
Actually not anymore since a decade or so. Comment deleted
Future has come Comment deleted
telegram allows 2GB and stores this on server. (With Premium - 4GB) Comment deleted
it was 5GB once iirc Comment deleted
Is it any limits for stories size ? Comment deleted
Don't worry, they need them to datamine you, so that's ok. Comment deleted
laughs in magic-wormhole Comment deleted
zachem vi vse na angliiskom govorite? Comment deleted
English please @george_tok Comment deleted
This is international channel and there’s many speakers of different languages Comment deleted
Language stats in Telegram is somewhat weird (counted based on views) but this is what it is Comment deleted
stats for this channel or tg as a whole? Comment deleted
That screenshot is stats for @dev_meme Comment deleted
looks like main language should change Comment deleted
It will not Comment deleted
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joking i like the channel in eng Comment deleted
зис из а гуд вей то трейн инглисш скилз. Алсо ит гивес админ посибилити то шаре ит виз хиз инглисш спикинг коллеакгуез (пробабли) Comment deleted
(english transliterated using russian: detected) This is a good way to train English skills. Also it gives admin possibility to share it with his English-speaking colleagues (probably) Please use English in this chat or add a translation. Using transliterated English (probably) does not count as using English Comment deleted
Oh, fuck, we didn't have an idea! Comment deleted
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They are determined by phone number. So I already broke the statistic a bit. I am Hungarian with 2 Austrian phone numbers Comment deleted
I was under the impression it was counted as whatever language your app is in Comment deleted
Nope. Its the phone number Comment deleted
I’m pretty sure they are not because wtf is “English” phone number? 😄 Comment deleted
And in overall I’m pretty sure that percentage of French/German views would be higher than what we have seen Comment deleted
Austrian phone numbers are german too Comment deleted
I heard of some people randomly loosing all content saved messages Comment deleted
That's probably an old bug since telegram creation - not being able to have more than approximately 1.000.000 messages (this limit was doubled once afaik, but its not a fix) Comment deleted
I mean like all messages are completely gone, or is that the cause? Comment deleted
All messages *could* be gone by this, because telegram randomly clears messages to make some space Comment deleted
These messages counters are different for personal (old groups, private chats, saved), channels, supergroups, and probablyh secret ones Comment deleted
I hate English Comment deleted