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title: PyDis hits 2,000 members; pythondiscord.com and @Python are live
date: Mar 4th, 2018
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The public moderation bot we're using at the time, Rowboat, announces it will be
shutting down. We decide that we'll write our own bot to handle moderation, so
that we can have more control over its features. We also buy a domain and start
making a website in Flask.