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jagrosh/Vortex
🌀 Discord Moderation Bot
Vortex is a Discord moderation bot built on JDA (Java Discord API) with automod (spam/invite/URL filtering, strike system), logging, and raid-response tooling. It's aimed at Discord server admins who want a hosted bot to add to their server, not developers looking for a bot framework or self-hostable template.
The command surface is genuinely broad and well-organized — automod, moderation, settings, and tools each get their own package, so features like antiraid, slowmode, strikes, and invite whitelisting are easy to locate. It uses resolvers (InviteResolver, URLResolver) to normalize and dedupe obfuscated invite/URL spam rather than naive regex matching. It has an actual test suite (FilterTest, InviteTest, RedirectTest) covering the trickiest parts of automod logic, which is rare for bots this size.
The README states self-hosting is 'not recommended' and explicitly unsupported — no setup docs, no build instructions, and the maintainer won't help with compiling or running your own copy, so the code is published for transparency, not for reuse. Test coverage is thin relative to the command count: three test files against dozens of commands means most moderation logic (bans, mutes, strikes, raid handling) has zero automated verification. It's a single-maintainer project with no visible CI config in the tree, so regressions likely surface in production servers rather than in review.