It is understood that YouTube and Discord are working on an alternative to music bots. It’s a sad end of an era here for everyone on the platform,” Yoav told The Verge. As someone that was a very early user on Discord it’s hard to envision Discord without music bots, they’ve become key to the experience and bring so much fun and engagement to a community. “I believe that now that we received the letter, all music bots will be getting them too in the following weeks and I strongly believe all of them will shut down. Rythm, the most popular Discord music bot, is installed on almost 20 million Discord servers and reportedly has more than 560 million users. Without revealing details, he said the project had some form of connection to Discord. Yoav, however, was also quoted as saying that the Rythm bot team was working on “something new in the music space that we’re very excited about”.

Groovy receiving one just meant it would happen sooner rather than later,” Rythm bot creator Yoav told The Verge recently. Which is why we started working on something new a year ago. “One way or another we knew this was due to happen eventually.

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