The Discord support bot called Flagrow

luceos

This post relates to the bot on the official Flarum Discord server. The bot helps in different ways, offering the ability:

to search extensions by fully utilising the database from flagrow.io

$ext search <term>
$ext search upload

to get detailed information about one extension:

$ext get <extension>
$ext get flagrow/upload

to search discuss.flarum.org (as a guest)

$discuss search <term>
$discuss search whenwillthenextflarumbetabereleased.com

The bot requires occasional maintenance and this discussion offers its users to subscribe to updates. In case the bot is down and no status is given here, feel free to report here.

Disclaimer; this bot is maintained by team Flagrow to the benefit of the Flarum community. Support, questions etc are answered only through this discussion.

A huge thank you to @datitisev for writing the majority of the new bot in discord.js ?!

luceos

~~The bot is currently down due to it not properly taking throttling into account.~~

Resolved.

luceos

The bot is down again. Seems it still keeps reconnecting and Discord reset the token to prevent further abuse ?

I'll need to look into it.

luceos

Okay the bot is up again, made some changes. Totally not sure whether this will increase its stability, we'll see. Let me know on discord PM when it's down again ?

luceos

I've taken the bot down again, terribly sorry. Previous issue persists ?

Frink

luceos Have you contacted Discord support?

Kyrne

Frink It a bot, the company itself has nothing to do with it. It would be like contacting Microsoft because of a bug in an third party application.

Frink

Kyrne ok, I didn't know of it was an issue with discord or not

luceos

Today @datitisev wrote a replacement bot in discord.js! Out of the blue ?

Sometimes unselfish behavior like this is all you need after a long week of hard work and real life challenges.

Thank you so much David, as a token of gratitude I decided to back him over at his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/YappyBots

Frink

luceos Wow! I didn't know the YappyBots had a Patreon page, I've done the $5 Tier, good work @datitisev

datitisev

Today @luceos and I put together some thoughts, code, and HTTP 500 errors to bring you extension notifications!

The bot now uses Pusher connected to Flagrow.io to provide extension notifications to any channel you may want!
Discord server administrators can invite the bot at https://flagrow.io/bot/invite.

To subscribe to notifications, say @flagrow subscribe. To unsubscribe, @flagrow unsubscribe. These commands specifically require the mention and won't work using the normal prefix.

sample

luceos

With a bit of tinkering and lopzing, we've now been able to render most of the icons configured inside the extensions composer.json too. The last hurdle is svg files. As the information is using the database of flagrow.io we have quite some metrics within our reach.

My question to you, what metric would you like to know about?

number of downloads of all extensions?

luceos

Whenever a new post is created here on discuss on any public tag, the bot will now push a notification to discord channel. (commands "listen" and "mute"). I've added a new channel on the Flarum server so people can mute it if they want.

This post most likely will also show up ?