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radiantly / live-countdown-bot

A discord bot that counts down to an event. Used in 60k+ servers.
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Option to specify the frequency of updates #16

Closed azekeil closed 3 years ago

azekeil commented 3 years ago

Perhaps as a series of tuples of 

!countdown 10mins 10mins: 1min, 1min: 10sec, 10sec: 1 sec
radiantly commented 3 years ago

Hmm could you elaborate on how something like this would work?

The current behavior increases the frequency of updates as the countdown grows nearer. if time left is lower than 2 days, then it is updated every minute. else, if lower than 2 weeks, it is updated every hour. else it is updated every day.

I'm also not very sure if this option should be given to the users - having a countdown that ends in a year or so update every minute seems like an awful waste of resources.

Updates every second is not possible with Discord's current API limits.

azekeil commented 3 years ago

I wasn't aware (I don't think it's documented) about the current behaviour. That seems sensible enough as it is, thanks. Closing this issue (although you might want to consider adding it to the documentation?)

radiantly commented 3 years ago

Fair enough, the current behavior needs to be documented.