When identifying to the gateway, you can specify an intents parameter which allows you to conditionally subscribe to pre-defined "intents", groups of events defined by Discord. If you do not specify a certain intent, you will not receive any of the gateway events that are batched into that group.
Speaking to another experienced library developer, their opinion was that if not specified the default should be to request all intents. It looks like intents use a similar bitwise system like permissions - so we can figure out the mask for "all" and provide some template masks in the documentation for common use cases (i.e. messages only).
When identifying to the gateway, you can specify an
intentsparameter which allows you to conditionally subscribe to pre-defined "intents", groups of events defined by Discord. If you do not specify a certain intent, you will not receive any of the gateway events that are batched into that group.https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#gateway-intents
Speaking to another experienced library developer, their opinion was that if not specified the default should be to request all intents. It looks like intents use a similar bitwise system like permissions - so we can figure out the mask for "all" and provide some template masks in the documentation for common use cases (i.e. messages only).