3 months ago
Hey there! I'm the lead developer of https://a.roomy.space, a chat app that will have features such as bridging to Discord.
Before trying to use Railway I wanted to make sure that this is an appropriate use-case as the "Userbots" use-case sounded like it might slightly overlap Roomy's use-case.
While we don't have plans right now, we did entertain the idea of having simple AI helper bots running, so I wanted to get context on whether that'd be a violation or not under the terms of service. I appreicate any extra clarification, thanks!
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3 months ago
I'm guessing that 'userbots' means self bots (where a program controls a user account, opposed to Discord bot account)
From what I know, Railway doesn't care about this
3 months ago
Ah, gotcha. I think that's against Discord's terms of service, anyway, which would explain why Railway would ban them.
3 months ago
Railway only cares if you violate their ToS, not a different service's
3 months ago
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3 months ago
or any processes that run or are activated while you are not logged into the Services
Well that's kind of strict. I can easily imagine automated jobs.
3 months ago
Oh, that's talking about automating against the Railway services, nvm.
3 months ago
yeah that's questionable uhh
3 months ago
So like I shouldn't give a bot or LLM access to my railway account.
3 months ago
Not that I can't run automated jobs on railway infrastructure.
3 months ago
I think.
3 months ago
Could you explain how your software works, because I'm talking to you over a bridge right now, and the backend for this is hosted on Railway, and doesn't break anyone's ToS.
3 months ago
We're making a group chat app that is similar to Discord in some ways, and that is bridged with Discord.
Similar to Discord, people will be able to run bots that will be able to interact with other users on Roomy.
We may also run bots ourselves that that act autonomously as users on the Roomy network.
We'll also be running the Discord bridge itself, which will interact with Discord through the official Discord bot / application API.
That all seems like it'd be fine to me, but when I signed up I saw the no "Userbots" warning as a part of the onboarding, and wasn't totally sure what that was meant to exclude.
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Also, cool that you got this bridge like this. That's pretty neat!
3 months ago
which will interact with Discord through the official Discord bot / application API.
3 months ago
youre in the all clear
3 months ago
(at least on the Railway part)
3 months ago
Yeah you're clear
3 months ago
No problem!
3 months ago
said this as iirc having a user share their bot token is against some guideline
Status changed to Solved brody • 3 months ago