ReviewDB
| ReviewDB | |
|---|---|
 ReviewDB showcase | |
| Status | Active |
| Official Website | reviewdb.mantikafasi.dev |
| Repository | mantikafasi/ServerGo |
ReviewDB (formerly known as UserReviews) is an Aliucord plugin made on July 1, 2022, by Mantikafasi. It allows people to review other Discord users. When the plugin was first released, it only had the review feature. Over time, with an increasing number of users, self-made review deletion and reporting features were added.
Ports
To make it universal Mantikafasi and some other developers ported ReviewDB into other client mods.
- BetterDiscord: Ported on 2 August 2022 via Ittai. Got rejected by BetterDiscord reviewers.
- Replugged: Ported on 8 August 2022 via Ittai.
- Vencord: Ported on November 16, 2022.
- Enmity: Ported in early 2023 spin and Rosie.
- Vendetta: Ported sometime in 2023 by Maisy.
- Twitter: Ported on 6 June 2022.
Website and Dashboard
On 9 April 2023, a Website and Dashboard were made by spin.
The Dashboard originally only allowed people to look at reviews via discord id. But with an increasing amount of requests by people to opt-out, a page for opting out got added.
To make downloading easier, a download page was also added. This page provided links to download ReviewDB for all available client mods that it supported.
Features
With ReviewDB, you can review Discord users, servers and bots. By default, anyone can review you. You can opt out from ReviewDB via the ReviewDB dashboard. You can report reviews on any profile, by pressing the flag icon next to each review. This will send it to the administrators, who may then delete it and ban the user for anywhere between 1 day and 1 month.
On Vencord, you can also delete reviews from your own profile, and block users from reviewing you, directly on your user reviews page.
Reception
ReviewDB has mostly been well received. However, there are occasional complaints about harassment. In response, the ability to opt-out from being reviewed has been added.
On Oct 8th, 2023, ReviewDB was removed from Vencord[1] due to a disagreement over its moderation between Vendicated and Mantikafasi. More specifically, Vendicated wanted users to be able to delete reviews from their own profile to more effectively counter abuse and harassment.
This led to mantikafasi creating his own Vencord fork VencordPlus[2] with ReviewDB included. However, this fork saw very low adoption.
On Jan 14, 2024, they came to an agreement and mantikafasi added the ability to delete reviews from one's own profile and to block up to 50 users. Thus, ReviewDB was readded to Vencord.[3]
Trivia
- From March 9, 2024 to March 11, 2024 the ReviewDB website was blacklisted by Avast.
- On March 8, 2024, the server that was hosting the ReviewDB dashboard was deleted by its provider Oracle which caused a two day outage. The dashboard was subsequently moved to Cloudflare Pages.
- Around early February, mantikafasi experimented with letting an AI bot named "Rule Creator", powered by Google Gemini review users. As one might imagine, this did not go well, and the bot was automatically banned from ReviewDB by its automatic slur filters.