Tbf, the Skype file transfer was shit
This was because Skype’s file transfer was Peer-to-peer, so it wasn’t Skype itself hosting the files. While discord is actually hosting the files, which is much more costly.
But discord supports sending messages to people who are offline. It kind of breaks the paradigm if certain features require full synchronous communication. Maybe supporting p2p transfers during a video / voice chat would work though.
It kind of breaks the paradigm if certain features require full synchronous communication.
you mean like voice/video chat?
The difference between having 2 active user vs. having billions.
Not being able to transfer more than 100MB is just them lacking motivation. They don’t even need to host files just make everything bigger than 100 MB a torrent or something similarly p2p. Skype’s file transfers worked like that if I remember right.
Let everyone who wants the file also serve the file to other people that want it.
To be fair P2P file transfer is not always viable, and in some sense the situation may be getting worse as more people are behind NAT these days, and the adoption of IPv6 has been poor. This may not be the end of the world for torrents as long as some peers can be connected to, but private transfers between two people on restricted NATs might not be feasible without Discord acting as a middleman for the transfer (which could get expensive). Plus there are some small privacy concerns for a direct P2P file transfer, as it would leak your IP to anybody you’re transferring a file to… probably not a big deal in most cases, but it might be unexpected for some people. That said it might work fine in many cases when NAT isn’t an issue or when NAT punching works… But there’s also other downsides in terms of reliability, offline delivery, and handling multiple devices and stuff that might make the experience a little less consistent for people.
Nowadays routers are made to be friendly to hole-punching, so, actually, P2P works quite well
Y’all don’t pass CDs around anymore?
I want to see your clay tablet when it rains young man. We drew on walls in a cave and then told the other one to go there.
Matrix with a WhatsApp bridge is the way to go. I’ve had it since over a year, and it works like a charm.
an android emulator has whatsapp and matrix bridge set up, bridge reads it, and then the bridge sends you the whatsapp message to your matrix front end client(element or whatever) official documentation https://matrix.org/blog/2019/02/26/bridging-matrix-with-whatsapp-running-on-a-vm/
You need to host your own server and then install the software for the bridge.
I think it was this one https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp but no guarantees
