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2004 Skype Flexes on 2022 Discord Over Free File Transfers
Communication Post #4837 · source on Telegram

2004 Skype Flexes on 2022 Discord Over Free File Transfers

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Two side-by-side grayscale panels compare file-sharing limits. Left panel (captioned “2004”) shows a hyper-muscular, sunglasses-wearing Wojak figure with the bright blue Skype™ logo covering his torso; above him, yellow-highlighted text reads, “You can even transfer files of up to 2 gigabytes.” Right panel (captioned “2022”) shows a skinny figure striking a weak pose with a white Discord logo for a head; above, a dark dialog box states, “Your files are too powerful! Max file size is 8 MB. Upgrade to Discord Nitro for 100 MB file limit!” The meme contrasts generous early-2000s peer-to-peer Skype transfers with Discord’s modern 8 MB gate unless users pay, lampooning how contemporary SaaS monetization can regress core functionality. Developers familiar with sharing large logs, crash dumps, or build artifacts in chat will relate to the inconvenience and the paywall-driven “feature downgrade.”

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SkypeCalls DiscordServers RelatableDevExperience TechHumor ToolingFrustration DeveloperPainPoints VendorLockIn CollaborationChallenges CommunicationGap

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick 2022 DevOps: we autoscale 10k pods and stream terabytes to S3, yet I’m still rar-splitting a 9 MB core dump because Discord thinks it’s “too powerful” - might as well container-run 2004 Skype as our file-transfer microservice
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    2022 DevOps: we autoscale 10k pods and stream terabytes to S3, yet I’m still rar-splitting a 9 MB core dump because Discord thinks it’s “too powerful” - might as well container-run 2004 Skype as our file-transfer microservice

  2. Anonymous

    Remember when we complained about Skype's 2GB limit being too small? Now we're paying $10/month for the privilege of sending a 100MB log file that would've been emailed as a zip in 2004. Next thing you know, we'll need a premium subscription to use more than 80 columns in our terminals

  3. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the classic 'innovation' trajectory: from 2GB free file transfers in 2004 to 8MB in 2022 - truly a testament to Moore's Law running in reverse. Nothing says 'modern cloud infrastructure' quite like artificially crippling basic functionality that was solved two decades ago, then charging $10/month to unlock a fraction of what Skype gave away for free when dial-up was still common. At this rate, by 2040 we'll need Discord Platinum to send messages longer than 140 characters

  4. Anonymous

    Skype 2004 shipped your monorepo for free; Discord 2022 demands Nitro tribute for a single Dockerfile

  5. Anonymous

    Skype’s P2P let you sling 2GB on someone else’s uplink; today’s centralized Discord runs through a CDN, so your 9MB crash dump hits an implicit HTTP 402 until you buy Nitro

  6. Anonymous

    In 2004 Skype punched through NAT to sling 2GB installers; in 2022 my 9MB flamegraph is 'too powerful' unless I buy Nitro - apparently object-storage egress margins beat UDP bravado

  7. @exhausted 3y

    skype used p2p for a file transfer 🤷🏻‍♂️

    1. @RiedleroD 3y

      did it? damn. truly acceptable 🙂👍 unlike discord 😕👎

      1. dev_meme 3y

        Skype had almost everything p2p and truly decentralised, unlike modern crypto startups Tho now all patents owned by Microsoft so it’s kinda hard to do something cool from legal standpoint, lol

    2. @plusdanshi69 3y

      discord cant even use p2p lol it sucks so much

  8. @choke_hazard 3y

    Both still shitty though

    1. @ahmubashshir 3y

      meanwhile telegram: free? 2gb for ya. premium? 4gb is all you get, upload tfyw

      1. @daniilfurgen 3y

        however speed is meh even on gigabit connection. I was blaming my 100mbps connection previously but when got gigabit I have understood that it is just Telegram what is slow

        1. @deerspangle 3y

          Yup, they boast premium gets priority downloads, but... It's still super slow loading up stickers and stuff. It's just telegram being slow and bad at caching.

      2. @choke_hazard 3y

        I'm ok with that since they are messengers not file hosts and I don't use them to send 4k movies. As a messenger telegram like x5 better than skype or discord

        1. @freeapp2014 3y

          Discord is a bit better for big communities with complex structures, since you have things like multiple channels, roles with granular access control and others And Skype is pretty much just a business tool at this point, even like grandmothers use other apps like whatsapp, viber or telegram But yes, telegram is definitely much better than whatsapp or viber

          1. @furqan 3y

            people still use viber?

  9. @ygerlach 3y

    torrents: unlimited

    1. @sylfn 3y

      the hard drive you are downloading torrent to: lmao

      1. @SamsonovAnton 3y

        cloud storage you mount as your torrent's placeholder: 😎 cloud storage bills you get for it: 😱

      2. @freeapp2014 3y

        Download to /dev/null, easy unlimited free storage Like and follow for more lifehacks!

        1. @sylfn 3y

          next post: how to read actual data from /dev/null

          1. @freeapp2014 3y

            It’s called /dev/random

            1. @RiedleroD 3y

              urandom for unsigned randomness

              1. Deleted Account 3y

                lol

  10. @ygerlach 3y

    2x10TB RAID 0 :D

  11. @frag_er 3y

    https://youtu.be/j80UUgnJ6Cw

    1. @Crusader 3y

      Eternal classic

  12. @freeapp2014 3y

    pacat?

  13. @affirvega 3y

    cat /dev/speaker > /dev/null

  14. @affirvega 3y

    chaotic neutral

  15. Deleted Account 3y

    swisstransfer.

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