Improve command recognition & help text - Githubissues

bluesky-astronomy / astrobot

A bot that handles actions on the Astronomy feeds, like sign ups.

https://astronomy.blue

MIT License

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Improve command recognition & help text #8

Open emilyhunt opened 2 months ago

emilyhunt commented 2 months ago

There are many cases when the bot doesn't quite recognise a command, such as:

~When someone has a newline marker between the mention and the command~
When someone includes punctuation marks
~When someone accidentally adds too many spaces~
If someone just replies to the bot and doesn't mention them (harder to fix)
Quote posts aren't recognized at all

... and more.

It would be great for the usability of the bot if:

The method to turn a post into a set of words to match could be more robust. (Currently this is an ugly thing that should be refactored & improved.)
The help text when someone fails to do a command correctly was better.
The bot also checked replies for if they contain a command (harder to add but possible, maybe if the first word is correct? I dunno)

emilyhunt commented 1 week ago

Newline & spaces aspects of this were fixed in recent commits. Other stuff is harder, so lowering priority for now...