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Comment by jonplackett | Hacker News Reader

Bet midjourney will be unhappy.

I'm sure one of the reasons they operate purely as a discord bot is to save $$$ on hosting and bandwidth

I think discord is very happy with Midjourney, who they do billing for, who they've done significant work to support (they're by far the largest discord, and discord has also done UI work to support the midjourney inpainting feature.)

I think it's extremely unlikely this is aimed at midjourney or will affect them negatively. Most of their bandwidth will still happen over discord where users see the images generated to begin with.

Got a source for the UI work?

The midjourney founder talked about it in his "office hours" in the weeks prior to inpainting launch, they were ready with inpainting before discord was done with UI support for it.

The way inpainting in midjourney works is you click "remix region" on the message where the bot posted the generation and UI pops up that lets you select regions of the images, with two different types of shape selector, a rectangle selection tool and a curve selection tool. You send your message back to the bot, which includes those regions, and it only redraws those regions.

I don't see how this affects Midjourney at all? Expiring links are a technical implementation detail that won't affect regular users of Discord in any way. It's not like they're charging for hosting or bot access unless I missed something.

I'm more concerned about the loss of content that should probably be preserved in historical grounds. Obviously not all of it is significant but you can't pick and choose and at least some of it will turn out to be of interest to future historians and researchers.

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