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manigandham on Nov 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go ...

It's images... seems like a very low risk situation, especially when they are served from a CDN.

reificator on Nov 14, 2017 [–]

As a user, the order of importance for Discord services is:

* Voice

* Text

* Previews (images, gifs, and videos)

Previews going down would be a pretty big deal for my communities based on the way we use the platform.

manigandham on Nov 14, 2017 | [–]

It’s just resizing, you still have the source images and can use those.

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