[noodlesUK]

I’m not pleased about this. I maintain a bot for work (not bigcorp), and this is going to waste a tonne of my time. This isn’t just a little breaking change that you can code around, getting rid of message content will make many bots impossible, or will necessitate a rewrite. Discord needs to listen to its community. /rant

[oefrha]

I'm in a similar situation. Unless your bot for work is used in 100 servers, locking message content behind a privileged intent will only affect you minimally, unless of course the library your bot is based on languishes like discord.py, which is a very real concern. The general trend of locking things down and hint at moving to an approved-interactions-only model is worrisome too.