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by giancarlostoro 1764 days ago
Also they need to stop rate limiting so much for normal users. We found out they rate limited banning. I moderate a large server where we dont add many barriers to entry so we get raiders and bots. We had to ban a thousand bots and couldnt go as swiftly due to rate limiting. I wish they would provide sensible controls for their bot problem and looser API restrictions. The bad bots dont care about rate limiting. I even saw a bot raid where accounts were just created that very moment. They have a broken registration flow somewhere.

Sorry for rant I moderate a sizable Discord and these are burdens a lot of political or reasonably large servers face. We get fresh raids every other week with thousands of accounts. Idk why Discord finds it normal that thousands of accounts would join any server within a minute and spam user DMs and leave. These are red flags.

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Rate limit banning. Don’t rate limit channel/server joining. Problem?

It’s like a bad troll face meme

You can check in anytime you like, but you can -never leave- only leave at X requests per second.