Only weeks in the wake of compelling the Groovy Discord music bot offline, Google-owned YouTube is currently directing its concentration toward Rythm, the most famous music bot on Discord. The search giant has sent a quit it to the owners of Rythm, a bot that lets Discord clients play music from YouTube videos and is used by in excess of 560 million individuals.
Google needs the Rythm bot shut down within seven days, and the service is going along by closing down its bot on September 15th.
Rythm is as of now installed on in excess of 20 million Discord servers alone. Rythm has in excess of 560 million Discord clients, making this closure a tremendous hit to a core feature of Discord.
“One way or another we knew this was due to happen eventually,” admits Yoav, the creator of Rythm bot, in a Discord message to The Verge. “Which is why we started working on something new a year ago. Groovy receiving one just meant it would happen sooner rather than later.”
The Rythm bot team is working on “something new in the music space that we’re very excited about,” says Yoav. There will be some form of connection to Discord, yet the group isn’t prepared to speak more with regards to their forthcoming project at this time. Rythm has been a full time job for Yoav, and it took 16 servers with more than 4TB of RAM and more than 1,000 CPU cores to power this Discord music bot, showing how famous the service had become.
“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,” explains Yoav. “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. It’s a sad end of an era here for everyone on the platform.”
While music bots may feel like a core part of Discord, they host been enabled by third parties for years, permitting Discord to stay away from scrutiny or legal action from organizations like YouTube. Groovy and Rythm closing down will compel many Discord clients to search for alternatives, however more modest bot engineers could soon end up in a comparable position in the event that they endeavor to fill the giant gap.
YouTube and Discord do appear to be working on some type of option, however. Discord has been testing a social party feature on its service for the beyond 10 months, and it permits Discord clients to frame a YouTube watch party. It’s anything but a straight substitution for music bots on Discord, however on the off chance that the feature ever officially launches, it will be an official approach to watch YouTube content inside Discord.
