Update/remove/replace the pinned message about slash commands in the #discord-bots channel

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Update/remove/replace the pinned message about slash commands in the #discord-bots channel #170

Open lxnn opened 2 years ago

lxnn commented 2 years ago

Amendment type

Content Update

Content type

Pinned Message

Please provide the location of the content

https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/343944376055103488/790795956115341322

What amendment do you think should be made to this content, and why?

A couple of members have reported that the information contained is not up-to-date and relevant. It was written at the start of 2021, and the landscape has changed a bit since then, most notably the ceasing of development of the discord.py library.

If you have any suggestions how the message could be changed or what it could be replaced with, please comment below.

Robin5605 commented 2 years ago

We should obviously include the forks, such as Disnake or the other prominent ones that support slash commands, and also an example on how to use them in those forks, if it doesn't exceed the message length

Snaptraks commented 2 years ago

There is also a package written by a Helper on the discord.py server, which adds slash commands functionality with discord.py 2.0.0a. This could be mentioned if someone doesn't wasn't to migrate to a while new fork.

https://github.com/XuaTheGrate/slash_util

minalike commented 2 years ago

We discussed this in our staff meeting last week, and we are leaning towards something like this:

very brief articles of information can be documented on our site repo, for which adding content is fairly straightforward (adding markdown files)
a pinned post in #discord-bots (or on other channels in the server) which will link to these articles
possibly add tags with abbreviated content and link to said articles

What this solves:

don't need to chase down members of the server to update pinned messages

What we want to avoid:

too much burden or overhead for the maintenance of evolving content and tech

minalike commented 2 years ago

@Shom770 will be project lead of moving pinned #discord-bots content to pages on our site, and coordinating any content updates as needed.

Robin5605 commented 1 year ago

I believe this can be closed now as discord.py is back in business. Thoughts if this is still relevant? Most of the work has now been moved to python-discord/site#695

minalike commented 1 year ago

@Robin5605 Is there currently a PR open for a slash command-related article or resource in our site guides?