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Improvements to `helpdm` and a feature request for help channel notifications.

Open Qwerty-133 opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

This issue consists of two parts:

  1. I believe we can improve helpdm's embeds by making changes such as:

    • Adding a mention to the claimant
    • Setting their profile picture as the thumbnail
    • Adding the condensed text that the claimant themselves receive
    • Updating the embed when the help channel has been closed

    In it's current state I don't find it helpful, since I usually am not able to identify which question I was answering just by looking at the help channel's name.

  2. While helpdm sometimes comes in handy when juggling between multiple help channels, what I would like more is to have the option to be notified for messages that I might have missed from the claimant. In terms of implementation, getting a DM from the bot if I haven't sent a message in the help channel 5 minutes after the claimant's message is what I had in mind.

Qwerty-133 avatar Nov 17 '21 03:11 Qwerty-133

I agree with all points made, and think they would make the helpdm system much more useful.

Were you intereseted in implementing any of this @Qwerty-133? (regardless, as a note if anyone would like to implement just part of this that would be fine as there's a couple of different things here)

wookie184 avatar Jan 03 '22 15:01 wookie184

I'll start working on helpdm for now.

Qwerty-133 avatar Jan 19 '22 11:01 Qwerty-133

With our migration to forum channels this week we are now using threads (posts) instead of channels, and closed/dormant posts now get referred to as #deleted-channel.

I'd like to suggest we add the channel name as text in the embed somewhere as well.

minalike avatar Nov 28 '22 02:11 minalike

Helpdm was removed in https://github.com/python-discord/bot/pull/2968 so i'll close this issue.

Any suggestions for helpdm-like features that would still be relevant given we're now using forum channels can be put in https://github.com/python-discord/bot/issues/2975

wookie184 avatar Apr 17 '24 16:04 wookie184