Subject: Discord hotlinks will break later this year - should we archive?
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Posted on: 2023-10-07 01:57:47 UTC

It's been widely reported that Discord has started doing some stuff to stop using folks from using Discord as a filehost for images. Specifically, you'll always be able to go look at an image in Discord, but if you open it up in your browser, that link will only work for 24 hours. This will apply retroactively.

There are (from a preliminary and very coarse query on the database) various Board posts that point at Discord images. I could go through and grab all said images (while I still can) and put together some sort of big list with thi link, which post I got it out of, and the image, which we could put ... somewhere.

Is this something we should do?

If so, any theories about where somewhere is? (A subdirectory of the Board is an option, or stashing them somewhere in case somebody asks)

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