Please, Please notify developers of random API changes for the future

[applebee1558]

The edit guild member endpoint was recently changed to send a 403 error when you attempt to timeout a user that has administrator permissions (it previously allowed you as long as you have the permission and higher role) This change went live randomly last week without any notice to developers. 403s cause API bans and having previously done our permission checks, this came out of the blues as a surprise. A ping or api changelog documenting the change would be nice. (as of today 01/30/2022, the docs still mention nothing of this behavior and it seems like a community member figured that out and wrote a PR that hasn’t been merged)

It would be really beneficial if developers were given notice before random changes like this are made…

[ckohen]

Changelog is desperately needed, just a small aside here:

If you are worried about API bans, you should track the number of invalid requests that you make and do something when you are seeing unusually high numbers of invalid requests.

djs/rest actually has a dedicated event that can be configured for just this purpose, I hope some other libraries have it to, and if not I'd love to see that in more libraries to combat this.