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
> 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