Discord is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost: The Enshittification of Discord.
BotGhost's response to Discord's breach notice and the future of the platform. Learn about the situation and what it means for users.
Monday, June 23 2025
This is not a post we ever wanted to make.
Discord has issued BotGhost with a formal breach warning and given us an ultimatum: find a completely new way to operate without using bot tokens by July 14, 2025, or the platform will be shut down. The catch? That alternative does not exist, and Discord has offered no guidance, no support, and no path forward.
We have spent the last 7.5 years building BotGhost, a platform used by millions, and suddenly, without warning, everything is at risk.
This post is long. Over 9,000 words, in fact. It is a full breakdown of what is happening, how we got here, and what it has been like trying to work with Discord as a developer for nearly eight years. It is part announcement, part post-mortem, part warning to anyone building something on this platform.
If you would rather skip the yappathon, you can head straight to the TLDR summary or the What You Can Do section for quick action items.
But if you care about how this happened, and what it means for you, your bot, or the future of building on Discord, we encourage you to read the whole thing.
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