• eatyourglory@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    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.

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        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.

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          It kind of breaks the paradigm if certain features require full synchronous communication.

          you mean like voice/video chat?