tanndlin
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1 year ago Most of us maintainers / admins of this repo are not too active in the server anymore, but we wouldn't mind you making pull requests in an attempt to trim fat from the repo (unused jobs/plugins/handlers anything like that), and I would be happy to do code reviews for such PRs.
Trimming fat
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Lion was built with modularity in mind, so taking out whole functionalities at a time shouldn't be a problem since each plugin is independent of another.
Upgrading to slash commands
- If you start by removing a lot of the unnecessary plugins, I doubt it would be too large of a undertaking. I think we have just had a lack of interest in the development of this bot for awhile so no one has sat down to make the transition 100%.
- Theoretically all you need to change is the interface of the plugins, and the behind the scenes services would likely stay the same.
Starting new
- Lion is under an the MIT license and you are free to use the code here as you please if you were going to completely restart
- I would double check that the admins and mods of the server are ok with this
- It would be very helpful to have the current admins and mods have a hand in the development of the new bot for the moderation side of things.
- If you guys end up making a new discord bot, it would likely be easier to make a new repo instead of being under Lion
- There are design decisions made with Lion that force it to be a single server bot, which makes this specific use case easier to develop for, but a lot of code if written with that in mind and might be hard to separate and you might decide that isnt a route you want to go
Appreciate the issue, and wish you luck. I hope you can get some other young people on board to get more involved. Working on an open source project with multiple people is an invaluable experience you will not learn from college classes.
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c650
joeydotdev
bluffdev
The problem:
Let’s face it. The current version of Lion is terrible. It doesn’t support slash commands and trying to migrate over to them is not a viable option. This bot NEEDS slash commands since they provide a much better user experience and are also better for user privacy. The bot is also way too bloated and no one wants to work on it. I also find the design of the bot to be a bit too complex.
Here’s my proposal:
We build a new bot with TypeScript that supports slash commands. The goal should be for the bot to be lean, easy to maintain, and have a less complex structure. We should also have stricter guidelines for feature requests to avoid unnecessary dependencies like what we have now.
We only need features related to these categories:
We probably need 4-5 people to work on this (I volunteer to help). The goal should be to have it finished and running in the server by the end of the year for Spring 2024. If we can get it done sooner that would be awesome. Let me know what your thoughts are on this and if there are any specific things that you want to include that I didn’t mention.