On July 27, 2021, Discord announced that effective May 2022, bot developers will be forced to migrate their bots to use slash commands. Although this may seem minor to users, this radically changes how bots are created and used in a way that makes a large number fundamentally incompatible with this change. A popular library for creating discord bots, discord.py, has announced that it is being discontinued due to Discord forcing all bots to use slash commands.

The discontinuation of discord.py and the forced migration to slash commands will directly affect you and your Discord servers because most bots will either be completely rewritten from scratch or shut down entirely. This change has already affected the oldest bot on Discord, R. Danny, forcing it to shut down. 

By signing this petition, you are telling Discord that you do not want them to force developers to migrate to slash commands, allowing developers to continue to work on the bots you know and love.

Learn more about the effects of this on discord.py and discord bots in general- https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/4a2f62751b9600a31a0d3c78100287f1