Fun facts about MEE6:
- It's the most used Discord bot (no source)
- It has been open source (https://web.archive.org/web/20201022100705/https://github.com/cookkkie/mee6)
- MEE6 and its developer are french (https://web.archive.org/web/20201022100701/https://github.com/cookkkie)
- MEE6 was made in Python with discord.py (https://web.archive.org/web/20201022100705/https://github.com/cookkkie/mee6) and is most likely still
- Its source code mentions a backdoor for some unknown reason (https://web.archive.org/web/20201007001431/https://github.com/cookkkie/mee6/file-list/master)
- It was developed and tested under Linux (https://web.archive.org/web/20201024150430/https://github.com/cookkkie/mee6/files/1756442/log.txt)
- The original MEE6 logo SUCKS (https://web.archive.org/web/20230519215710/https://i.imgur.com/oCbka4U.png)
- The XP calculation formula is most likely 5x²+50x+100 or max(1, math.floor(math.sqrt(xp/5+5)-5)) (https://web.archive.org/web/20201024145944/https://github.com/cookkkie/mee6/pull/108)
- A fork of the original MEE6 source code still exists here (ignore last commit): https://github.com/ricardovsilva/mee6
- Someone took the last public MEE6 version and continued it as a selfhostable bot, but it was also deleted or taken down. However, an archive of that project also exists: https://github.com/eleaguetgc/mee6
- MEE6 was going to be entirelly reprogrammed in Golang, but it was cancelled (https://github.com/ricardovsilva/mee6/commit/68c655d5c4616c43e1ac237de377b800e5d4595f)
- Similarly, they also tried Rust and NodeJS (https://github.com/ricardovsilva/mee6/commit/82eb04effac2ebd0ff2b2de724e42521f1fbaafe)
- The official repo now used to develop MEE6 is at https://github.com/mee6/mee6.git but private (https://github.com/ricardovsilva/mee6/commit/d5cb2ab8d2c6bfcfedeea3098636f224083a6b86) More and more facts are to be discovered inside the Git commits and comments of the source code inside the two repos...
