Inspired by communication platforms such as Slack, Microsoft Teams and the like, but oriented towards the gaming world, Discord has become itself, and very deservedly so, really successful serviceit has managed to transcend its original market and become a service used for a variety of purposes and in a variety of environments.

There are many reasons for its success, such as the number of features it offers, control over servers, countless flexibility in configuring user profiles… the list is very extensive and, more importantly, also has demonstrated that it actively listens to its usersfor example, when users voiced their disapproval after announcing their plans to join the NFT trend a few years ago, and those responsible decided to stop those plans, which have not been heard from again to this day.

As a result of this popularity, which has skyrocketed especially after the pandemic, there have been several occasions where technology companies have considered acquiring the service and including it in their catalogs. The most notable case was that of Microsoft, which made significant progress in negotiations to gain control, although the operation was ultimately not completed. Discord has also been in the spotlight more than oncealthough it is true that most of them are not for service itself, but because they have been used for illegitimate and/or illegal purposes, from using them to distribute CSAM to organizing an attack on the US Capitol. 2021.

So, in addition to guaranteeing the correct functioning and working to improve the service, the responsible persons must face these types of problems on a regular basis. And as we can read in The Verge, now links to files uploaded to Discord will expire after 24 hoursin order to prevent the platform from becoming a tool for hosting and distributing malware, something that users have until now used for malicious purposes.

When a user publishes a file of any type on Discord, it is uploaded to the platform’s servers and is universally accessible thanks to its URL, meaning you don’t need to access Discord to get it. So a recent report revealed more than 10,000 links to files hosted on Discord that were malware and distributed by other means, which can be curtailed with this measure. The important aspect of course is that the files will stay in Discord and They will continue to be permanently accessible within the platformand that only links that allow downloads from abroad will only be valid for 24 hours.