I'm very lucky I hadn't given it permission to kick people
That said I've completely removed it now, because jeez it nearly destroyed a many years old community in minutes
I've been running the Patreon as a tip jar for ages now and thought it'd be fun to give a discord role for that, but no longer
What a fucked service, jeez
Couple of servers we are in would like to know some details, if that's okay <3 How'd you know this was a close call, what actually happened? How'd you know patreon tried kicking people?
edit: Also very happy no one got booted gosh that's terrifying.
I had the Patreon integration setup for years as a simple, "Add people to the server and give them 2 roles" 1 role was my general server role that gives access to channels, and the other was a special one just to show off that they were a patron.
I woke up this morning to the bot having removed the general server role from every member of my server. Attempts to add it back resulted in the bot simply removing it again seconds later. This is not a behaviour it has ever exhibited in the 2 years I've had this service configured.
I went to Patreon itself to try and fix the matter, but it would not let me update what roles were being managed by the bot without granting the bot the power to Kick users.
Hopefully, you can understand my hesitation to give a bot that just decided no one in my server deserves roles the permission to kick all 120+ members without warning. Now there is a chance that simply giving the bot permission to kick would've fixed the situation (it had permission to do everything else and until today that was fine and Patreon didn't care). But I wasn't risking it and instead just disconnected the integration for safety.
Another member of my server, a twitch streamer with a reasonably large community, said that she had the same issue this morning. This leads me to believe Patreon has updated how their bot does things.
Goodness what a horror story :x We are so happy to hear the damage was undone. And thank you so much for the information, it's very useful <3
I heard that patreon was finally adding the ability for people to not be added to every single server linked to people they subscribe to, so it may be related to that. That feature is a few years overdue now.
Not that it excuses anything breaking, just might be related.
Looking forward to Cohost's subscribable pages but in the meantime I want my bunny bot to talk to the patreon api and not be so rash in it's function.
