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What is happening?

This Friday I received word that Discord.py (the framework which MODUS is built on) will no longer be maintained. This came as a shock to us. Without the framework backing our project. We will no longer be able to maintain the current code base of MODUS. This doesn't just affect us but a lot of other discord bot developers who develops their bots using Python.

Don't freak out yet please. We have a solution but bear with us and please read on.

Why is Discord.py no longer being maintained?

API libraries like Discord.py is run by the community and not discord. A lot of the API library maintainers has gone out lately saying discord has over the years stopped listening and communicating with the API library maintainers. This has caused some frustration among the community. This all started with bot developers having to get "verified" by providing government issued ID. This was said by discord to be a security measure and while most developers didn't like this change. Most still wen