Wrote Why Is AutoMod Rainbow? over on AutoMod.
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All 33 items on Vale.Rocks categorised with the tag 'Stoat'. Content relating to online communication platform supporting text, voice, and video communication.
I’ve been asked what framework I used to make the dashboard for my Stoat bot AutoMod so fast and snappy.
It is genuinely just slick HTML/CSS/JS that communicates with an API layer I developed. The dashboard itself doesn’t depend on even a single external library.
The framework-addled mind simply can’t comprehend not reaching for a bloated framework and a handful of libraries for everything.
Wrote Understanding Stoat's IDs (ULIDs) over on AutoMod.
Wrote A Web Dashboard For AutoMod over on AutoMod.
AutoMod used to have a red accent, but the logo was rainbow-ified for pride month a few years ago and it stuck.
Sometimes people are critical of it which weeds them out, and sometimes people message me because they appreciate the representation and it makes them feel safe.
Another pride month has come and gone, but AutoMod will remain as colourful as ever. True pride is deeper than recolouring a logo for a month.
Wrote Hello Tangled, Goodbye GitHub over on AutoMod.
Nothing like opening Bluesky to see NSFW furry artwork featuring the new Stoat icon/mascot I designed.
Lovely to see that rule 34 of the internet is alive and well…
I’ve been smashing out 12+ hour days to handle the new user influx at Stoat over the past week. I’m absolutely knackered. Gonna take a bit of a break.
To everyone who has tried to contact me about something, I’m sorry for my tardiness. I’m not trying to ignore you; I’m merely lacking the mental bandwidth to respond right now.
Using Stoat and looking for a quality dice bot for your tabletop RPG needs?
Today I developed and launched AutoDice, a convenient little bot that does one thing and does it well. Already in use on a couple of servers.
Launching new branding is always a tad stressful. Will people like it? Will they reject the new in favour of the old?
However, the launch of the new Stoat icon I designed has been a resounding success. People love the new icon!
They love it so much, in fact, that since launching yesterday it has already been named ‘Toast’ by the community. 🍞
Thousands of people have liked the announcements of the new icon across social media, and many more have reached out to me personally to express their fondness.
Already I’ve seen fan art of the new logo across a few platforms, and it really is wonderful to see everyone embrace it so openly.
Wrote Introducing AutoDice over on AutoMod.
As a huge fan of Rooster Teeth and Red vs Blue, it is beyond belief to hear Stoat being discussed by Ashley and Burnie Burns at the 20 minute mark here.
Completely unreal.
Are you on Stoat and finding AutoMod isn’t enough for you? You want— no, you need more? Well, fret no longer. AutoFeeds is here!
AutoFeeds allows subscribing to syndication feeds and getting notified of new posts directly in your server.
Wrote Introducing AutoFeeds over on AutoMod.
In our moderation panel over at Stoat, we have a button to deploy bees.
We don’t want to have to deploy bees, but sometimes that is the only viable option. Releasing bees as a moderation action is always a difficult call to make, but sometimes bees are the only tool for the job.
We have strict policies in place regarding bee usage. As it is, of course, a destructive action, we do also have a confirmation modal to avoid accidental bee deployments.
My Stoat bot AutoMod had a major outage that I’ve spent several hours working to fix. It has eaten half my weekend and been quite the ordeal.
Just now it has started working perfectly again. It is fixed, but I have no idea what broke in the first place nor what fixed it.
There is no code difference between the working and non-working versions. The most awful solution to a problem is one that happens out of chance and for reasons unknown.
The onset seemed to be related to having some 180K users, 64K channels, and 6K servers cached.
🫠
Wrote End of Year 2025 over on AutoMod.
The chat platform Stoat already has a wordmark, but no logo. Here are some of the concept designs I put together:
Revolt rebranded to Stoat today. Should be an interesting future for the platform. Lots of work to update stuff and move it all over.
https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat
If you’re wondering the implications for AutoMod: https://automod.vale.rocks/blog/revolt-is-stoat-now
Wrote Revolt is Stoat Now over on AutoMod.
Wrote No Text, Only Emojis over on AutoMod.
Today I launched a new blog for my Revolt bot AutoMod! Given the many thousands of users that rely on the bot, I decided that a central location for news, updates, technical details, and general information was necessary.
I’m really pleased with how it turned out visually, though I’m sure I’ll be tweaking and refining it for the rest of eternity. The rainbow mesh gradient behind the header came out particularly nicely, in my opinion.
https://automod.vale.rocks/blog/introducing-the-automod-blog
Wrote Introducing The AutoMod Blog over on AutoMod.
Just wanted to say that everything is going really well with development of new features for my Revolt bot AutoMod.
To the many thousands of users that rely on it, you didn’t see anything, and everything is fine.
Wrote Attempted Extortion over on Stoat.
Put together a fresh website and new branding for my Revolt moderation bot AutoMod.
Dipped my toes a little into experimenting with Material 3 styling.
No wonder my battery life has been terrible lately. I’ve had the full Revolt Chat stack running Dockerised in the background for the past half week…
Sorry for being MIA these past few days. Russia and Turkey both banned Discord, so I’ve been tied up with Revolt. We’ve had some 250K users join in the past 4 days, bringing us to over 450K users total!
If you aren’t aware, Revolt is a FOSS chat platform and decent alternative to Discord that I work on.
You can check it out at https://stoat.chat if you’re interested.
Great moments in Revolt development:
RUN yarn install --frozen-lockfile
RUN yarn build:deps
# RUN yarn typecheck # lol no
RUN yarn build:highmem
RUN yarn workspaces focus --production --all
https://github.com/stoatchat/for-legacy-web/blob/master/Dockerfile#L9
The new Mutant Remix site, developed by yours truly for Revolt, is up!
Mutant Remix is an awesome emoji packed based on Mutant Standard by Dzuk. It’s still got a bit to tweak but go check it out!
Wrote 100K Users over on Stoat.
