[cfgghsj]

Meanwhile, I see fleets of user-bots happily chugging along under the radar hoovering up data. Just like the post author said:

> the crux of malicious bots were, and still are, user-bots.

Seems almost laughable that Discord is making hoops for legitimate bot developers to jump through while taking little action against user-bots.

I suspect that Discord wants to get a chunk of the big money that game bot developers are making, and are pushing bot developers into a more rigid API that will eventually include in-app-purchases. The article author also said:

> No longer will bots thrive with a sandbox limited only by your imagination, but instead Discord is now the sole gatekeeper of approved use cases. The future of Discord bots relies solely on the interaction system; things have to be explicitly written and supported by Discord employees

[nerdponx]

I wonder if they are going to try to kill Mee6 and then offer its features to server owners for a fee.

[ikiris]

That's likely a major part of this is neutering the ability for any other service to do generic message functionality.

[bozhark]

fuck those that bought the lifetime package, eh?

[ikiris]

generally, yes.

[Kiro]

What's a user-bot?

[justwalt]

A bot that doesn’t use the official registration method, which involves setting up an “application,” registering the bot, and then inviting it to your server. This labels it clearly as a bot. A user bot just looks like a user, and also has no restrictions.

[bozhark]

oh, so all those crypto scam fools?