Notice for anyone hosting story images via Discord

[Piisfun]

Starting sometime next month, outside links to files hosted on Discord will expire (and be replaced) once every 24 hours.
Apparently this is being done to crack down on bad actors using Discord to host malware.

Unfortunately, it means that if you host your images there, the image links in the story will break on a regular basis.

 

[RepresentingEnvy]

RIP to every image I posted on the forum.

 

[Corty]

 

[AYM]

RIP to every image I posted on the forum.

 

[Aaqil]

RIP to every image I posted on the forum.

My emotes are gonna disappear en masse around here,

My signature's gonna break!

 

[Corty]

My emotes are gonna disappear en masse around here,

My signature's gonna break!

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

This is worrisome ...

 

[ForestDweller]

It's Joever.

 

[Paul_Tromba]

Good thing I didn't use discord to host things.

 

[iamchangingthissoon]

well that is annoying

 

[SailusGebel]

Good thing I didn't use discord to host things.

based

 

[Rhaps]

Well then, I guess I'll have to use Zalo...

 

[owotrucked]

lmao fuck

 

[Rhaps]

Good thing I didn't use discord to host things.

Btw, what site do you use to host your images?

 

[WeissBlatt]

Good thing I don't use discord.

 

[Paul_Tromba]

Btw, what site do you use to host your images?

I used imgur

 

[TsumiHokiro]

Btw, what site do you use to host your images?

You could use imgur, it used to be there for that. There is also photobucket, which I used way back when, and it still exists, though, I'm not sure for how long they host images these days.
But hosting images in a social network and one which is a chat...? I wonder what is the logic?

 

[Sleds]

But hosting images in a social network and one which is a chat...? I wonder what is the logic?

There no logic behind it, it's just easier with discord, even more when you create a discord server for your novel with the same illusration shared in it.

 

[Rhaps]

You could use imgur, it used to be there for that. There is also photobucket, which I used way back when, and it still exists, though, I'm not sure for how long they host images these days.
But hosting images in a social network and one which is a chat...? I wonder what is the logic?

There isn't much thought to that, Discord is just convenient as I have one less app to think about, since I already am using it to host my dnd games.

Making different channels also help, as I treat them as folders more than chatting channels.

 

[greyblob]

to clarify for those who did not watch: images will continue to work on discord without expiring