The issue appears to be resolved now. Will report if anything changes.

esmBot is seemingly facing issues communicating with the Discord gateway. Currently investigating.

status.esmbot.net

The migration is now complete! The issue that appeared looks to be resolved.

The server migration is now *mostly* complete; the bot is back up and running, but there are some slightly less critical parts that are not working as intended.

Attempting to investigate; there may be intermittent periods of downtime. Will report when the issue is fixed.

Migration starting soon. Further updates will be available here: status.esmbot.net

Note that this release will not be immediately applied to the main instance of esmBot; instead, I will be waiting until the migration tomorrow to update it.

esmBot v2026.3.0 is out now as the first release this year! This brings a multitude of fixes and general improvements (most notably Components V2 and Klipy support).

Full changelog here, as usual: github.com/esmBot/esmBo...

I intend to release an update soon with plenty of changes from the past few months. This update will not include the new feature I've previously talked about, but it will include a good amount of fixes and enhancements.

Quite a bit of stuff is coming, hopefully I'll be able to share more soon!

esmBot will be going down on March 19 at 4:00 PM UTC for a server migration. The migration is expected to last around 30 minutes, but may be longer or shorter depending on various factors.

Update: I'm still working on this feature, however due to circumstances I will have to delay the release into January.

I'll have an update post out on Patreon and Ko-fi later today outlining what's been done so far during the past month.

esmBot v2025.12.1 basically just includes this and a few tweaks, but here's the full changelog if you want it github.com/esmBot/esmBo...

happy holidays

you can now put your images/gifs in a snow globe. you're welcome

Thank you so much to all who helped out! esmBot is now funded for another month. ❤️

There's still a bit of work left to do on the mentioned feature, but I hope to get it out by the end of the year.

Get more from Essem on Patreon creating content, code, and entertainment

As mentioned above, esmBot is in danger of shutting down past this coming month. If you've found esmBot to be useful/entertaining before, please help through Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/TheEssem

Or Patreon: patreon.com/TheEssem

I'll be rolling out an alpha of a new major feature there soon, so stay tuned...

Release 2025.12.0 · esmBot/esmBot This release includes significant fixes and optimizations, as well as a large amount of refactoring to prepare for handling other media types. I know this might be a bit out-of-place for the releas...

esmBot v2025.12.0 is out now. This includes a lot of changes and fixes to prepare for a much larger feature - which should hopefully be arriving quite soon.

As per usual, the full changelog can be found here: github.com/esmBot/esmBo...

hey guys

esmBot v2025.10.0 has been released. It adds a new image command and fixes some things.

Full changelog: github.com/esmBot/esmBo...

Release 2025.9.0 · esmBot/esmBot This release mainly focuses on internal refactoring and general maintenance. The minimum required Node.js version has been bumped to 22.0.0. Changes Added a native, directory-based subcommand syst...

esmBot v2025.9.0 has been released. This is primarily a maintenance release; however, it does introduce a new system for subcommands under the hood.

As usual, the changelog can be found here: github.com/esmBot/esmBo...

A screenshot of Discord's dashboard showing that the server install count is at 500,000.

500k servers! 🎉

esmBot A free and open-source Discord bot designed to entertain your server

The main esmBot repo is now mirrored to Codeberg: codeberg.org/esm/esmBot

Both the GitHub and Codeberg repos are synced with each other, and pull requests are accepted from both.

Release 2025.8.0 · esmBot/esmBot This release adds a new tag-related feature and fixes various bugs. Changes Added a role-based permission system for tag creation Added support for TS commands on Node.js v22.18.0 TS command loadi...

esmBot v2025.8.0 has been released. While this release is mainly focused on bug fixes, it also introduces a new role-based permission system for tag creation (see the `/tags role` commands).

Full release notes are here: github.com/esmBot/esmBo...

Release 2025.7.0 · esmBot/esmBot This release adds some new commands, includes a major behind-the-scenes fix, and adds support for a new runtime. esmBot now has native support for the Deno JavaScript runtime. See the Runtime Compa...

esmBot 2025.7.0 has been released! This includes the new hue and powerdirector commands, as well as Deno support and a major behind-the-scenes fix.

The full release notes are available on GitHub, as usual: github.com/esmBot/esmBo...

I'm honestly flattered that over a million people have added esmBot as a user app (in a relatively short time as well - user apps were only launched last year!)

Thank you to everyone who has supported the project over the years. ❤️

A screenshot of the Discord app dashboard showing 1 million individual user installs.

Woah.

Release 2025.6.0 · esmBot/esmBot This release makes some small additions and bug fixes. Changes Made the image detection check for forwarded media Fixed banner not properly getting users from slash command arguments Fixed music s...

Another new esmBot release has been published! This is another very small release, mostly performing some maintenance and fixing bugs, but it does also include support for using images in forwarded messages.

The changelog for v2025.6.0 is available here: github.com/esmBot/esmBo...

Release 2025.5.1 · esmBot/esmBot This release fixes some bugs and makes some tweaks. Changes Output images are now automatically selected when posted in a user app context (#505) Fixed animated WEBP attachments and external image...

(It seems I never made a post about the 2025.5.1 release! That one had a few more changes than this one, and the changelog for it can be found over here: github.com/esmBot/esmBo...

Apologies for the lack of communication!)

Release 2025.5.2 · esmBot/esmBot This release makes some small additions and bug fixes. Changes Added support for getting GIF stickers with sticker Added support for getting server avatars with avatar Added support for getting se...

esmBot 2025.5.2 is out now! This is a very small release, adding a couple of long-overdue features and making some small fixes, along with some localization updates.

Changelog available here: github.com/esmBot/esmBo...

The issues have now seemingly been resolved. Continuing to monitor for any further issues.

Seems like quite a few issues have appeared as a result of the upgrade process. This is being tracked over at status.esmbot.net