This is a follow up post on the developments made to the antiabuse discord bot. A brief overview on how the bot works at programming level can be found here.

What’s New?

The bot will be undergoing some stress testing. We’re trying to see how much demand it can handle before it crashes from being in multiple servers at once. We made some measures to prevent the bot from being overwhelmed with requests.

It’s available on a few selected servers. If your community wants to try out the bot, you can reach me on Discord or comment under this post for the authorization link. We’re still working on ways to improve its features like adding verifications.

The blacklist is now server specific. Each server can now generate their own blacklist without it overlapping other community blacklists. This makes it possible to have a fully decentralized blacklist at a community level on discord now.

Bot Features:

Limitations:

I don’t see the project ever scaling up higher to accommodate more community servers. It serves curation groups better. There are only a few communities that express any interest in antiabuse. Why opt for more costs to get better features when the core functions to get the job done are free?

The bot uses HiveSQL which is already funded by DHF and it uses a free hosting service. The only cost it generates is being covered from my local Hive community bank and personal funds which are peanuts compared to the value it’s giving for improving curation.

We’re still going to be working on making it better and hope to hear from community feedback.

If you made it this far reading, thank you for your time.