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I'm building a lot on discord right now, I like it but I keep getting scared, then I think, eh, irc servers could have gone away too I suppose, in fact they did, much was lost. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of nuanced thinking in this though.
You can always run your own IRC server. If Discord shuts down, then you're out of luck.
I was excited there for a second.
If you care so much about the users as you say then you will release the code in a docker image so they can continue using your product.
their target audience does not know what a "docker" is, much less wants to lease a server for hosting
I'm building a lot on discord right now, I like it but I keep getting scared, then I think, eh, irc servers could have gone away too I suppose, in fact they did, much was lost. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of nuanced thinking in this though.
> BotGhost cannot export bot configurations due to its no-code structure. If shutdown happens, all bots and user data will be permanently lost.
I don't think I understand this part - what does the "no-code" mean in this context? How can this data not be stored somewhere for the service to function at all? Does this mean that BotGhost also has no backups, and a technical glitch could cause a similar problem?
Repeat after me and frame this. Never build your main business on somebody else's platform. Always assume that you will get shutdown / rugged when you do so.
Pretty much every business is built on shaky foundations. If you never built business on shaky foundations, you'd never do anything at all. You needed an IBM-compatible PC to use Windows! You need a web browser to use Hacker News. Y Combinator is only meaningful as long as dollars are worth something.
If you make a business that runs on IBM PCs, make a few billion dollars, then 10 years later IBM rugpulls the PC line and sues everyone who copied it... was there really a "lesson" that needed "learning" or did you simply succeed at business and make a few billion dollars?
None of that matters in the slightest. They're dealing with an indifferent, capricious, unaccountable company. And trying to do it without enough leverage to even get a response.
It seems like it's about to end the way it was always going to.
Repeat after me and frame this. Never build your main business on somebody else's platform. Always assume that you will get shutdown / rugged when you do so.
>Never build your main business on somebody else's platform. Yep. It’s a lesson that keeps being re-learned the hard way.
It’s bad advice.
I was sympathetic up until the line > Over 3 million users and bots created which struck me as thoroughly disingenuous. Surely they know how many users they have, and how many bots have been created. Why conflate the two?