About DeGore
A short history of how DeGore came to be the leading image moderation bot for Discord Servers.
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A short history of how DeGore came to be the leading image moderation bot for Discord Servers.
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When I first started coding DeGore, I had set out with a goal: to create the best and most feature-rich image moderation Discord bot. This whole idea came to mind after I unwillingly stumbled upon a not-so-pleasant animated gore GIF which a member had sent in a community Discord server. Needless to say, it was disgusting, to say the least. A while later, the image was deleted by a moderator.
That's when I thought to myself: "What if I could automate this? Why isn't this already a thing on Discord?". After spending a while trying to find an auto-moderation image bot to no avail, I decided it was time to create my own.
Now, since there weren't any already-existing solutions for image moderation, there wasn't exactly anywhere I could take ideas and inspiration from. This was arguably the most challenging part - coming up with the whole structure of an AI image moderation bot from scratch was pretty tricky and had some obstacles that needed to be overcome.
With the little experience I had in discord.js at the time, on the 11th of March, the initial project files were created and I got to programming. After hours of AI R&D and going through a lot of library and API documentation, I finally had the first version of DeGore up and running within the first few days. That's when I made my first commit to DeGore's private GitHub repository:
...and that's when DeGore first came to life - on the 19th of March, 2021.
When I first managed to get DeGore to detect NSFW imagery, I was over the moon, quite literally jumping in excitement. AI is incredibly fun to tinker with, and this was my first proper application of Artificial Intelligence. I could feel it - this was the start to something great.
It's mind-boggling to look back and see how far DeGore has come. Nowadays, DeGore is protecting 800,000+ users in over 1,000 communities. DeGore is growing like a champion.
There are so many exciting upcoming new features, including DeGore's Web Dashboard and an innovative approach to centralized moderation. Here's a sneak peek of something that's coming this summer 👀:
I couldn't be happier with the amazing community we've created in our official Discord server (), and feel incredibly proud that DeGore is playing a role in helping to keep users just a little bit safer in their communities, as well as giving community moderators and administrators ease of mind.
