Figure out why we're suddenly seeing very few events

[dracco1993]

Since this bot was publicly launched, it's been getting anywhere from 10k-30k events per day, very consistently.

However, starting on 2020-10-27, it's been getting sub 2k/day.

Everything appears to still be working, so that's good, it's just very odd, and we should make sure that we're still getting the data we need from the API.

Here's the processed events/day graph from sidekiq:

[kringeth000]

Maybe I'm crazy, but I feel like I remember reading something when we were setting up stuff that they would be limiting what information is accessible through the gateway after a certain date....I need to see if I can find that again 🤔

[dracco1993]

@kringeth000 Yeah, I seem to recall talking about that. I looked through a bit of the documentation, and couldn't find it, but maybe you'll have better luck.

[dracco1993]

After a lot of data finagling, I finally got this graph, which is actually super helpful:

[dracco1993]

Same thing, but removed the Events::PresenceUpdateEvent and GrandTotal lines for a more detailed look:

[dracco1993]

Discord actually enforcing this is almost certainly what happened, although at a later date than they originally specified: https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#privileged-intents

[dracco1993]

So, this is tied to the Gateway the bot is using to interact with Discord; it looks like the max available is v8, but the bot is currently using v6: 👀

https://github.com/discordrb/discordrb/blob/master/lib/discordrb/gateway.rb#L137

[dracco1993]

Looks like I'm updating the version the bot uses... hopefully that's not too painful... 😅

[kringeth000]

@dracco1993 Yeah that sounds about right lol. Maybe v8 brings some new features to the table? 👀

[dracco1993]

I did the thing... 👀