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Kardbord / Kard-bot

A Discord bot destined for greatness
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Add "help" option for each command #34

Open Kardbord opened 2 years ago

Kardbord commented 2 years ago

Despite how nicely slash commands are integrated with the Discord client, sometimes commands require more in depth explanation. Even for simple commands, it wouldn't hurt to have a more verbose help message. I think it would improve UX to have a help option come standard with each command.

Kardbord commented 2 years ago

Help messages should be ephemeral. See #35.

Kardbord commented 2 years ago

Perhaps a better approach would be to have a /help command that takes another command as an argument?

TnekRex commented 2 years ago

That would probably be the easiest to implement.

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Kardbord commented 2 years ago

The big downside to that approach is that Discord limits you to 25 subcommands. See the Options section of Application Command Structure. Subcommands are "options" of top level commands. It is likely that the bot will eventually have far more than 25 commands, if it doesn't already. To work around that limitation, we'll have to either have the user provide a command name as a raw string (no autocompletion), or take the approach of adding /help as a subcommand or boolean flag of each individual command.