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<md-icon slot="icon">waving_hand</md-icon>
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By the time you're reading this labsCore is no longer available.
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## What's happening?
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The labsCore Discord Bot will be ceasing operations starting on the **1st of January 2026**.
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## What's next?
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labsCore will continue operating as normal throughout 2025. From 2026 onward the public instance (`labsCore#5969`) will
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no longer be functional.
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> If you're looking for replacements, I can personally vouch for [Assyst](https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=571661221854707713)
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> and [NotSoBot](https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=439205512425504771).
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The frontend (bot) source-code will be preserved in a read-only state on [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/bignutty/labscore),
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the first-party backend (labscore-api) cannot not be trivially made available due to it relying on a plethora of private
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and undocumented services.
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## Why now?
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The bot has always been a hobby project that I work on in my free time. In the recent months I've gradually felt
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less and less motivation to dedicate any significant time towards contributing to the project. I don't feel comfortable
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handing this project over to new maintainers, nor do I want to keep it running on "autopilot" until it eventually breaks
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down and I disappear from the internet.
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labsCore is one of my oldest JavaScript-based projects, two and a half rewrites later it still exhibits many poor
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conventions and bad decisions that I'd no longer make today. The entire codebase (both frontend and backend) are still
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using CommonJS imports and exports as well as a giant mess of half-baked helper functions and utilities. I believe
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another full rewrite of both the frontend and backend would be necessary to get it into a somewhat manageable state,
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which is something I simply don't want to invest the time into.
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<:flask:1254752675199844372> Thank you for using labsCore.
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<voidcannon-cta layout="button">
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<md-icon slot="icon">help</md-icon>
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For any further questions, feel free to reach out.
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<md-text-button href="https://discord.gg/fwU68KBH5d" target="_blank" slot="button">labsCore Discord</md-text-button>
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