I believe Discord adoption accelerate if there were live news feeds direct to Discord and not just IRC relays.

Theres a limit to how fast you can post on discord. I don't know where anyone else is on this but the workaround we have thought of in LaF has several hurdles before we can implement afaik. I'll leave that to someone more capable.

Yes, more insight from those who have experience with the technology would certainly be advantageous.

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Discord's API is limited to 120 events per 60 seconds, or about 2 per second.

During attacks, newsbots will far exceed this volume.

The way to get around this is to put the messages going to the channel into a queue and send the request to Discord every 0.5s if the queue has > 0 messages.

I haven't had time to add that logic into either a game-related bot or the IRC <-> Discord bot that we're using.
If someone else codes it into the IRC <-> Discord bot I'll see about setting it up, though!

There's still the obvious downside of potentially not having hits make it to the channel for 0.5s, which might upset some people who want their information to be instant (like IRC is).

Is there not a per second limit as well or did I make that up?

Hmm looks like I did. They must have changed it because I could have swore that the last time I looked into it that was the limit.

Yeah 1 event per 0.5 sec wont be enough for a KR no matter how you code it. But 120 events per minute will, for most KRs at least, if they can be bundled.

You'd be on the limit if anyone walls a great deal of fast hits or if 2 KRs occur at the same time.

Could you do 2-3 or as many as is viewed needed relay bots and have they alternate? It might be a PIA to code, but could this be a work around?

Ok also to add to that Red, yes multiple users would fix the issue, but at some points midwar during big multi server kill run times it would still be buffered.. IRC has no throttle limit when its self hosted which is why it is always best. i suppose it could be programmed to send 0.5s blocks of text but they wont be well formatted but atleast will have all of the information.

Are you attempting to speedpost® ?

We have a few people around who work on Discord so I think this could be achieved.

I don't think a fraction of a second will matter much in terms of news delivery.



Secret... :p

I mean the relay bot could potentially be set up to take 1 in 5 maybe and have idk a few different ones. There are work arounds however I'm not a coder lol. Irc would be best but discord would be nice if you just want to see what's going on in a limited way.