It's been [6 months][og_gist] since I announced my departure from the ecosystem and a lot has happened during that time.
During the last 2 weeks, many contributors and I came together and saw the state of the Python Discord bot ecosystem was mostly on fire. After some contemplating, with the help of others, I came to the conclusion that development should resume. During these two weeks a lot of work was spent into catching up and implementing many things to the discord.py project and to eventually launch a v2.0 release. We're on a deadline but we got a lot of work done.
About three weeks ago, Discord [announced][decommission] that it would decommission API versions 6 and 7 on May 1st, 2022. While the current beta version, v2.0, is on version 9, the current stable version of discord.py, v1.7.3, is on version 7 of the API. This means that Discord's plan to decommission v6 and 7 will result in all bots on the stable version of discord.py ceasing