Enable bots in groupchats
General Description
All the time people use bots in servers, especially the larger ones for music and joking around. The issue with this, however, is that every person who wants to have a group of people with a bot must make a server, and these slots take up space we could have for other servers. Enabling bots to be put into group chats would allow people to use the fun, music, and etc. bots with a group of 10 people including the bot.
What does this entail?
The API for discord would have to have something written into it, letting a bot know if it is in a group chat. Using discord javascript as a reference, there a Channel manager, with the property type. The property that would need to be added inside type is `group` in order to pick up on the bot being in a group dm. Of course this would come with the introduction of new errors needing to be written, however, most of them are already related to dms. Group dms are dms with just more people, so it should not be that much more development besides the `group` type. This would also need to make it when bots are created the owners have an option of whether to allow the bot in groups or not. This is up to Discord, whether that is an option created, or it is up to the developers in their code to not do anything when the channel type is group, which is already done with dms.
Feedback
Please post any feedback, or suggestions to this post so the idea can be built further and explained greater. If anyone has any questions about the post or what a sentence means, leave a comment and I'll explain.
Thanks!
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While I do think that it is an interesting idea and I know some group chats that might take advantage of a bot in a direct message group, I can't help but find it kind of redundant and something that shouldn't take any development priority as far as the discord api goes. It is quite simple to make a server for you and your small community of friends, peers, or coworkers. Doing so allows for full customization including access to bot applications. So while I do not think that it would do any harm, I also do not see a legitimate need for this.
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Yeah I see exactly what you mean, but sometimes you will have several groups of people you play with, and to put them all into one mutual server might be weird. While, yes, you can edit and manage that server to keep the 5 groups separate or together, it is easier to add a bot to your group chats you already have with your friends. Servers, in my opinion, should only be made if you can't use a group chat as a function, because 10 people is the max. To have a server of only 5 people you friends with to have the bot might be a waste of a server space.
I do agree with you though this is something smaller, and is not a top priority in the API, but it is always something to consider for the far future. Thanks for your feedback btw1 -
I think it's a great idea! I often have conversations with some friends in a dms group, and servers are not always pleasant. With servers it is very extensive and it is too busy for what you want with your friends. I prefer to use group chat instead of a server. And I think a bot in this group can be very nice!
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