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Tiago Machado

pro

• Aug 31

Am I the only one seeing my feed flooded with bot accounts and posts?

Madi 💫

max

• Aug 31

hey Tiago - we're actively addressing this. please continue to report anything you see and our team is taking action on the problem as a whole 🙏

thanks for flagging!

Tiago Machado

pro

• Aug 31

Thanks, Madi. Will do

Madi 💫

max

• Aug 31

appreciate you!! 🫡

lighting studio

pro

• 13h

Headline: Dead silence from support while the Oct 12 deadline ticks away

How are creators supposed to enter the #invideocontrachallenge if we aren't being given the tools promised in the guidelines?

I applied for the Max plan upgrade days ago, submitted my workspace ID, and filled out the support forms. Zero response. Total ghosting.

You are dangling an $11K prize pool to get people to join the platform, but leaving participants locked out of the AI editing features needed to actually complete the brief. Time is running out before October 12.

Please unlock my workspace ID so I can actually do the work:

@Invideo AI @Contra

invideocontrachallenge

Artem Alisov

• 9h

Concept design for a Telegram bot for an online store: main menu with buttons, order tracking by order number, FAQ and contact flow, admin alerts. Designed for Nordholm Home (demo store) as a ready template for small e-commerce businesses. Python, Telegram Bot API.

AI Automation AI Chatbot Development Python Telegram bots

Ecom Swift LLC

pro

• 1d

Checked a live Shopify store's robots.txt today to see how it handles AI crawlers. No GPTBot, no PerplexityBot, no ClaudeBot listed anywhere. They just fall under the general rule that blocks admin, cart, checkout and account pages, same as any other bot.

That's actually fine for most stores. Product and collection pages stay crawlable by default, so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude can read them when answering shopping questions. The mistake we see is stores that add a blanket AI-blocking line to robots.txt thinking it protects content, and accidentally block the exact pages they want showing up in AI answers.

Worth a 2 minute check: open yourstore.com/robots.txt and make sure product and collection paths aren't disallowed.