Yes, it is getting annoying. I do not have any anti-automation measurements on my services (besides robots.txt, if that counts), I just let everyone pass, no matter if human, script or AI. The only thing that annoys me sometimes is when searching through logs because of the frequeny of requests, but as long as it doesn’t get to a level where it impacts performance I really don’t care that much about it.

If any non-mod developers wonder how these options look in the mod settings, here’s an example from one of my mods:

Authors now choose between AI-Generated Content (when AI produced most of the code, voices, textures, or other core assets), AI Media (for promotional art, thumbnails, or page text created with AI), or AI-Assisted (human-led work that used AI in a supporting role such as texture upscaling or audio cleanup).

This is the biggest win. It’s not just a “yes or now” toggle, you have 3 tags/disclosure options and a separate text field to describe in detail what you did and what the AI generated. I can’t express how much I love that. The moment I got the rollout notification I immediately went into the settings of my mods and updated the disclosures. Hopefully this will calm people down and stop treating every mod that uses AI only to some extent like AI slop made by someone who has never managed to understand a single line of code.

Last time I used Stoat it still had the old name (can’t remember what it was) and it was miles behind discord. No idea how much changed since the rebranding tho.

Fluxer on the other hand sounds pretty promising, I’ll look into it.

If there ever is an alternative that is also free to use, has (almost) the same features or more and has a at least halfway decent UI & UX, I’m more than willing to switch. But the only software I found that was pretty much on the same level as Discord (besides popularity) got bought and killed shortly afterwards by Roblox.

Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions, I now have my own Fluxer instance up and running. And also sorry for basically using Cunningham’s Law on you all lol