In April 2023, I reported on Discord fixing one of its biggest problems: increasing the free upload limit for file sizes in serves. It had been a pathetic 8MB for years for non-paying users but was increased to 25MB. Great news, right? 

It truly was a sign that the extremely popular text and video chat social media site had finally been paying attention to the vast majority of users and their needs. Unfortunately, it paid attention again just recently and not in a good way.

The official Discord support page detailing how Nitro Basic and Nitro — the site’s two paid subscription tiers — work also contains a brand-new clause explaining that Discord has lowered the upload limit from its juicy new 25MB back down to 10MB. According to the support page, “storage management is expensive,” and “in order to maintain our service without compromising on quality of storage, we decided to reduce the free file size upload limit.”

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Apparently, Discord analyzed how much storage non-paying users actually use and found that “99% of users” tend to upload files smaller than 10MB. As such, it decided to reduce the storage limit to that amount. Of course, we have to take Discord at its word here, as it did not publish the results of this study, but the reason for this change sounds reasonable at first glance.



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