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okay so I keep thinking about this bot thing. What if we had like:

# show count of PRs, issues, etc in a neofetch like fashion
ubluectl status 

# approve pr 56 for main 
ubluectl pr —approve main/56

# trigger GitHub  workflows 
ubluectl trigger-workflow main/build.yml

# show count of PRs, issues, etc in a neofetch like fashion
ubluectl status 

# approve pr 56 for main 
ubluectl pr —approve main/56

# trigger GitHub  workflows 
ubluectl trigger-workflow main/build.yml

# show count of PRs, issues, etc in a neofetch like fashion
ubluectl status 

# approve pr 56 for main 
ubluectl pr —approve main/56

# trigger GitHub  workflows 
ubluectl trigger-workflow main/build.yml

# show count of PRs, issues, etc in a neofetch like fashion
ubluectl status 

# approve pr 56 for main 
ubluectl pr —approve main/56

# trigger GitHub  workflows 
ubluectl trigger-workflow main/build.yml

Let’s make this a bot thread

akdevOP•9/5/23, 4:47 PM

What feature do we want/need in a bot?

xyny•9/5/23, 4:57 PM

ubluectlubluectl makes it seem like a cli-thing

xyny•9/5/23, 4:58 PM

discord has the /slash/slash commands now

xyny•9/5/23, 4:58 PM

couldn't it be like

akdevOP•9/5/23, 4:58 PM

It can’t be slash because it will conflict with discord stuff

xyny•9/5/23, 4:58 PM

/status/status, /trigger-workflow/trigger-workflow, /pr/pr

Aakdev It can’t be slash because it will conflict with discord stuff

xyny•9/5/23, 4:58 PM

slash commands are the new "correct" way to make discord bots, though

xyny•9/5/23, 4:59 PM

could have a prefix to prevent collisions

akdevOP•9/5/23, 4:59 PM

Oh then I can do that but it would be /ubluectl status/ubluectl status

xyny•9/5/23, 4:59 PM

i guess

xyny•9/5/23, 4:59 PM

hold on, i'm googling how other bots do it

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:00 PM

The one on fedora server uses .command.command

Aakdev The one on fedora server uses `.command`

xyny•9/5/23, 5:00 PM

yeah, a lot of bots use .cmd.cmd !cmd!cmd etc too

xyny•9/5/23, 5:00 PM

but with slash commands we get that fancy autocomplete

xyny•9/5/23, 5:00 PM

no need for .help.help

xyny•9/5/23, 5:00 PM

https://discord.com/blog/slash-commands-are-here

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:00 PM

the problem with that is that it seems very easy to create conflicts

xyny•9/5/23, 5:01 PM

other bots just have /command/command

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:01 PM

Eg: /status/status

xyny•9/5/23, 5:01 PM

/status

xyny•9/5/23, 5:01 PM

there's no /status in discord by default

xyny•9/5/23, 5:01 PM

if we don't add other bots we can use /status

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:01 PM

Yeah but if two bots implement /status I guess you get two responses

Aakdev Yeah but if two bots implement /status I guess you get two responses

xyny•9/5/23, 5:02 PM

i'd guess discord would handle that better

xyny•9/5/23, 5:02 PM

because slash commands are a discord feature, not just parsing messages that people send

xyny•9/5/23, 5:03 PM

maybe in the dialog that opens when you type

you need to select the correct one?

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:04 PM

mm not sure what this discord commands feature actually does

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:04 PM

I would prefer parsing messages because it is more flexible but need to see what the discord commands do

Aakdev mm not sure what this discord commands feature actually does

xyny•9/5/23, 5:05 PM

it's just like parsing messages, but you get autocomplete and descriptions of the different fields

Lina•9/5/23, 5:05 PM

multiple bots can have the same command name with slash commands, youre able to choose between what command you actually intend to use

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:06 PM

There's limitations like this

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:06 PM

mm need to see what it means

xyny•9/5/23, 5:06 PM

at least https://discordjs.guide/creating-your-bot/slash-commands.html in discord.js creating slash commands seems pretty easy

Aakdev There's limitations like this

xyny•9/5/23, 5:07 PM

i don't think we'd cross 100, but this depends on if what we'd want is CHAT_INPUTCHAT_INPUT or MESSAGEMESSAGE

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:08 PM

Whats the difference?

Aakdev Whats the difference?

xyny•9/5/23, 5:08 PM

no idea

Lina•9/5/23, 5:09 PM

slash commands have the advantages of 1. showing a little tooltip describing the command and 2. suggesting command completions

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:09 PM

I’ll probably just use message parsing at least at the beginning because it’s very easy

Lina•9/5/23, 5:09 PM

heres what it looks like on mobile

Aakdev I’ll probably just use message parsing at least at the beginning because it’s ve...

xyny•9/5/23, 5:10 PM

i wouldn't go for worse UX because it's a bit easier to develop

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:10 PM

Going from message parsing to slash commands is a lot easier than the reverse

Aakdev There's limitations like this

xyny•9/5/23, 5:10 PM

CHAT_INPUTCHAT_INPUT is the one (https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/application-commands), the others are for context menus

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:11 PM

plus I need a working CLI anyway to test locally

Lina•9/5/23, 5:11 PM

usually people make personal discord servers for testing

Aakdev plus I need a working CLI anyway to test locally

xyny•9/5/23, 5:11 PM

you can test with a test discord server

xyny•9/5/23, 5:11 PM

do you have experience making discord bots?

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:12 PM

I do have a testing server

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:12 PM

It’s still not really ideal if I have to open my web browser to test stuff

Aakdev It’s still not really ideal if I have to open my web browser to test stuff

xyny•9/5/23, 5:13 PM

i always just keep the web browser on the side, for googling stuff and such. you can just have the discord server open there and type in the commands you wanna test. i don't see the issue

akdevOP•9/5/23, 5:15 PM

To make a code change I would have to:

1. Make a code change, rebuild/reinstall application
2. Go to web browser and type on discord

vs: npm build && npm run ubluectlnpm build && npm run ubluectl

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