Disclaimer & Legal Exclusions
Last Updated: July 2026
CRITICAL WARNING:Stray is a self-hosted client-side custom status playground (classified as a selfbot framework). Executing custom presence daemons on personal Discord accounts violates Discord’s Developer Terms of Service and Guidelines. Usage carries a risk of account suspension or API rate limiting.
1. Educational & Academic Purposes Only
Stray is distributed strictly as an educational experiment in WebSocket networking protocol compliance, device header customization, and browser spoofing simulations. The codebase serves as a research model for personal learning and software development studies.
2. Exclusion of Liability (Safe Harbor)
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws: the developers, authors, copyright holders, and server hosts of Stray shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages resulting from downloading, compiling, executing, hosting, or modifying this software.
3. Sole User Responsibility
By deploying this codebase, you assume 100% of the responsibilities and operational risks. All security audits, database protections (db.json), and environment credentials control remain your responsibility.
4. Third-Party Trademarks
Stray is an independent, noncommercial open-source project and is not affiliated, endorsed, sponsored, or associated with Discord Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. All product names and trademarks belong to their respective copyright holders.