AddRole RateLimits
Hi!
We are developing the Guild.xyz bot, which is currently managing roles through about 3.500 servers (its even not that much imo), and we have a few rate limit issues already, when we are trying to add or remove roles in real time based on blockchain data.
We are trying to do a workound, but as far as we checked, there is no mass role adding in the API, and it is pretty hard, when we have to add/remove like more hundreds of roles at the same time.
Could you suggest anything to try out for this case? Because we are afraid, what will happen, if we will manage like 35k servers or so.
Thanks a lot, ejay.
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You can bulk add roles to single users, not multiple
Why are roles changing that often? Rate limits should be per guild I would have thought?
Yeah, we are adding bulk roles, but unfortunately that is not enough.
Here is a simple case:
Currently we have 200 visitors in only ONE PAGE, which guild has 100k members. If these 200 participants would like to join, and they just access at least 1 role, thats 200 seconds in the que.
We are listening to off-chain and on-chain events, which triggers role adds/removals as well. For example, if you sell any asset on the blockchain and there is a Guild Requirement for it, that will remove a role from you, if you are not fulfil the requirements.
Is it?
To be quite honest, managing all of that through roles seems like a bad design based on the number of API transactions needed to do so
Why are roles the governing factor here?
Because it is like a platformless membership management tool, where community owners could create exclusive content for their members through different platforms, for example discord.
I get that, but the volume of transactions it seems you're handling suggests roles are not a good way to manage this
I guess its really up to you to discuss it with Discord though. We really have no control over rate limits and such
I see, thank you for your answers! 
One other question, if you may know the answer for this, because I didn't find it anywhere.
Are there any rate limit for this endpoint currently? Thankyou.
Ratelimits are dynamically assigned by the API based on current load and may change at any point.
• The scale from okay to API-spam is sliding and depends heavily on the action you are taking
• Rainbow roles, clock and counter channels, and DM'ing advertisements to all members are all examples of things that are not okay