Thank you all so much for the support on this!
If you haven't seen it, Tom's put out an FAQ channel regarding the shutdown on the official BotGhost discord.
Also, if you could - please help share this petition! I would greatly appreciate it :)
Let's start off now - thank you all so much for 50 signatures - especially so quickly!
Let me introduce myself before I get carried away and type a bajillion lines, haha. I'm Hat, a BotGhost user from Brisbane - which I have been using BotGhost for roughly 2 years now. I've built 40 different personal projects all on BotGhost, and it has taught me quite a lot of skills I thought I'd never learn. Not only that - I was a "Community Hero" (now known as "Community Support") member for roughly a year, until I had left. I have used BotGhost to empower entrepreneurial skills among users and players ("Yeepville"), and even given a gateway for those to get general help within their favourite games ("VR-AI")
I wanted to write this update as a thank you - and as a way to highlight those that put messages on this petition, let's go through them.
Luke's petition message:
The potential shutdown of BotGhost by Discord would be a devastating blow, not just to me, but to countless others like me. Personally, I've built over 18 bots using BotGhost, and this platform has had an incredibly strong, positive impact on my life and even my developing career through motivating me to create on Discord. I've tried coding bots from scratch and frankly, I just suck at it; BotGhost made it accessible and easy for me to bring my ideas to life. It feels incredibly unfair that BotGhost is being targeted when many other Discord bot services rely on users providing bot tokens for similar functionalities without facing such threats. Banning BotGhost would not only remove a vital tool that has genuinely helped me and many others succeed in Discord development, but it also signals an inconsistent application of policies. Please reconsider this decision and allow BotGhost to continue fostering innovation and creativity for users like myself.
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I totally agree with this, Luke. I myself have struggled with learning all 400 programming languages you need to make a discord bot - but BotGhost has been my lord and savior for everything I've dreamt of making - letting me make it for real.
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Caleb's petition message:
BotGhost has powered many of my communities from my VR game to My Personal server bot BotGhost was my go to for bot creation. With it shutdown I now have lost my moderation because my bot was key to all moderation in my game. My game was forced to shut down because of this. Coding a bot like the one I had myself would take weeks as it only took me 3 days in botghost. Botghost was quick, easy, reliable, affordable, and fun to learn. Discord please make the right choice here.
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Heya Caleb! I myself am a VR creator, I've loved and used BotGhost the same way you have! I'm so sorry to hear about your game shutting down - we just have to hope that Discord can hear our cries for help regarding these issues. Good luck on your next VR project!
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Anime (Anime Oni? Is that you!?)'s petition message:
Discord as of late has decided to target Discord rather than real moderation concerns such as predators
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I 100% agree with this - and I believe Tom covered a lot of this on the update page, Discord isnt really the best place for users and creators to do their thing, and they're giving up on those that have an idea on how to do something.
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That's all for this update! See you soon!!
- HatKid, NHK Creative
(P.S. - If you could help by sharing this petition via Discord or Twitter (or sending it to your grandma!) - that'd be awesome ❤️)