diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ec1a63e4..5651e88e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ dependencies = ['colorama; platform_system == "Windows"']
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = ["pytest>=6", "pytest-cov", "pytest-timeout", "pytest-xdist"]
+discord = ["requests"]
 slack = ["slack-sdk"]
 telegram = ["requests"]
 notebook = ["ipywidgets>=6"]
diff --git a/tqdm/contrib/discord.py b/tqdm/contrib/discord.py
index fd663f98..574baa84 100644
--- a/tqdm/contrib/discord.py
+++ b/tqdm/contrib/discord.py
@@ -8,49 +8,83 @@ Usage:
 
 ![screenshot](https://tqdm.github.io/img/screenshot-discord.png)
 """
-import logging
 from os import getenv
+from warnings import warn
 
-try:
-    from disco.client import Client, ClientConfig
-except ImportError:
-    raise ImportError("Please `pip install disco-py`")
+from requests import Session
+from requests.utils import default_user_agent
 
 from ..auto import tqdm as tqdm_auto
+from ..std import TqdmWarning
+from ..version import __version__
 from .utils_worker import MonoWorker
 
-__author__ = {"github.com/": ["casperdcl"]}
+__author__ = {"github.com/": ["casperdcl", "guigoruiz1"]}
 __all__ = ['DiscordIO', 'tqdm_discord', 'tdrange', 'tqdm', 'trange']
 
 
 class DiscordIO(MonoWorker):
     """Non-blocking file-like IO using a Discord Bot."""
+    API = "https://discord.com/api/v10"
+    UA = f"tqdm (https://tqdm.github.io, {__version__}) {default_user_agent()}"
+
     def __init__(self, token, channel_id):
         """Creates a new message in the given `channel_id`."""
         super().__init__()
-        config = ClientConfig()
-        config.token = token
-        client = Client(config)
+        self.token = token
+        self.channel_id = channel_id
+        self.session = Session()
         self.text = self.__class__.__name__
+        self.message_id
+
+    @property
+    def message_id(self):
+        if hasattr(self, '_message_id'):
+            return self._message_id
         try:
-            self.message = client.api.channels_messages_create(channel_id, self.text)
+            res = self.session.post(
+                f'{self.API}/channels/{self.channel_id}/messages',
+                headers={'Authorization': f'Bot {self.token}', 'User-Agent': self.UA},
+                json={'content': f"`{self.text}`"}).json()
         except Exception as e:
             tqdm_auto.write(str(e))
-            self.message = None
+        else:
+            if res.get('error_code') == 429:
+                warn("Creation rate limit: try increasing `mininterval`.",
+                     TqdmWarning, stacklevel=2)
+            else:
+                self._message_id = res['id']
+                return self._message_id
 
     def write(self, s):
-        """Replaces internal `message`'s text with `s`."""
+        """Replaces internal `message_id`'s text with `s`."""
         if not s:
             s = "..."
         s = s.replace('\r', '').strip()
         if s == self.text:
-            return  # skip duplicate message
-        message = self.message
-        if message is None:
+            return  # avoid duplicate message Bot error
+        message_id = self.message_id
+        if message_id is None:
             return
         self.text = s
         try:
-            future = self.submit(message.edit, '`' + s + '`')
+            future = self.submit(
+                self.session.patch,
+                f'{self.API}/channels/{self.channel_id}/messages/{message_id}',
+                headers={'Authorization': f'Bot {self.token}', 'User-Agent': self.UA},
+                json={'content': f"`{self.text}`"})
+        except Exception as e:
+            tqdm_auto.write(str(e))
+        else:
+            return future
+
+    def delete(self):
+        """Deletes internal `message_id`."""
+        try:
+            future = self.submit(
+                self.session.delete,
+                f'{self.API}/channels/{self.channel_id}/messages/{self.message_id}',
+                headers={'Authorization': f'Bot {self.token}', 'User-Agent': self.UA})
         except Exception as e:
             tqdm_auto.write(str(e))
         else:
@@ -75,22 +109,18 @@ class tqdm_discord(tqdm_auto):
         """
         Parameters
         ----------
-        token  : str, required. Discord token
+        token  : str, required. Discord bot token
             [default: ${TQDM_DISCORD_TOKEN}].
         channel_id  : int, required. Discord channel ID
             [default: ${TQDM_DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID}].
-        mininterval  : float, optional.
-          Minimum of [default: 1.5] to avoid rate limit.
 
         See `tqdm.auto.tqdm.__init__` for other parameters.
         """
         if not kwargs.get('disable'):
             kwargs = kwargs.copy()
-            logging.getLogger("HTTPClient").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
             self.dio = DiscordIO(
-                kwargs.pop('token', getenv("TQDM_DISCORD_TOKEN")),
-                kwargs.pop('channel_id', getenv("TQDM_DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID")))
-            kwargs['mininterval'] = max(1.5, kwargs.get('mininterval', 1.5))
+                kwargs.pop('token', getenv('TQDM_DISCORD_TOKEN')),
+                kwargs.pop('channel_id', getenv('TQDM_DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID')))
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
     def display(self, **kwargs):
@@ -108,6 +138,13 @@ class tqdm_discord(tqdm_auto):
         if not self.disable:
             self.dio.write("")
 
+    def close(self):
+        if self.disable:
+            return
+        super().close()
+        if not (self.leave or (self.leave is None and self.pos == 0)):
+            self.dio.delete()
+
 
 def tdrange(*args, **kwargs):
     """Shortcut for `tqdm.contrib.discord.tqdm(range(*args), **kwargs)`."""