How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) by sascha_sl on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:07PM (#28293422)

Well yeah. Though Vent, Teamspeak and Mumble never had these issues (if you could trust the server admin).

Skype (at the time, no idea now) was a very shoddily written piece of software. It was trivial to query the IP of any online user, even if they were not on your contact list or appearing offline.

You had to use a VPN or carefully conceal your Skype ID, I did work with a somewhat popular live streamer back then (so a VPN wasn't feasible), and their ID was a very random string that was not to be shared under any circumstances.

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Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) by rcxdude on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @07:34PM (#28296342)

Skype wasn't shoddy per se, but it was extremely aggressively peer-to-peer, which resulted in exactly this kind of exposure of connection information.

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Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) by sascha_sl on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:46AM (#28298667)

I'd say exposing the info of any user, even if they're not on your contact list, is pretty shoddy.

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Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) by tester756 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:14PM (#28293497)

>Though Vent, Teamspeak and Mumble never had these issues (if you could trust the server admin).

In some games where people were often switching teams, you couldnt.

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