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So what does this mean for the people who have created bots for sneaker sites? I actually used to write code for those sneaker bots and run a slack group (before we all moved to discord), but I've never encountered oddities in the code builds for bots I used. This may be going over my head a bit but does this mean that the builders for the bot installs could contain malicious code?

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In short, yes - could be. The blog shows at least one case where this has happened in practice.

Semi-unrelated, but why did you end up moving from Slack to Discord, if I may ask?

The demographic of people buying the bots are not... very technical. Discord is what they are "used to".

Like the other comment below, we made the jump because it was where the customer base was. Slack was great for webhooks and tooling to monitor stock but in the end it wasn’t where the paying people were.

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