

Rythm has been a full time job for Yoav, and it took 16 servers with more than 4TB of RAM and over 1,000 CPU cores to power this Discord music bot, illustrating how popular the service had become. There will be some form of connection to Discord, but the team isn’t ready to talk more about their upcoming project just yet.

The Rythm bot team is working on “something new in the music space that we’re very excited about,” says Yoav. YouTube is forcing the popular Groovy Discord music bot offline Groovy receiving one just meant it would happen sooner rather than later.” “Which is why we started working on something new a year ago. “One way or another we knew this was due to happen eventually,” admits Yoav, the creator of Rythm bot, in a Discord message to The Verge. Given Discord has 150 million monthly active users, this shutdown is a huge blow to a core feature of Discord that’s used by around 20 percent of its userbase. Rythm has more than 560 million Discord users, and 30 million of them actively use the service each month. Rythm is currently installed on more than 20 million Discord servers alone. Google wants the Rythm bot closed down within seven days, and the service is complying by shutting down its bot on September 15th. The search giant has sent a cease and desist to the owners of Rythm, a bot that lets Discord users play music from YouTube videos and has more than 560 million users. Just weeks after forcing the Groovy Discord music bot offline, Google-owned YouTube is now turning its attention to Rythm, the most popular music bot on Discord.
