[MatthiasPortzel]

Edit: Leaving this comment up, but my updated understanding is that Discord's policy change only effects bots >100 servers. So it's less applicable to the 'learning how to code' demographic.

It seems to me like Discord has, for some reason, decided that small bots are a problem. Which is a bummer.

I've been on Discord since 2016, in programming and academic circles, and the grassroots bot community has always been amazing. I'm in a server with 30 of friends, which has 4 bots made by members of the server.

Something about the simplicity of listening for messages, parsing them how you want, and sending back text that shows up just like a user is really satisfying. I know it's been a motivation for many people who have little to no interest in programming anything else.