Draft: Notify community members and users about activity and updates via a Discord bot

  • Status: draft

Context and Problem Statement

We want a way to notify community members and users about activity and updates.

Describe the proposed option and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

A discord bot would be able to inform users via Discord about updates and changes.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, or diagrams

We would connect to Discord API from Elixir using one of several integration libraries.

We can report #information such as server player count by editing a message; or updating the bot status.

I would also like to poll #information such as CI/CD builds and deployments. We could make an API where someone or something can post a message displayed in Discord using curl or some command, though we would have to make sure this is locked behind a secret key. Unclear.

Positive Consequences

  • Grow the community
  • Help us manage the project

Negative Consequences

  • Maintenance costs of having a service fed

Other proposal: Integration with Discord via Webhook

Positive Consequences

  • Lower maintenance burden

Negative Consequences

  • No access to commands or statuses. Only capable of posting messages.

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

Yes, it is possible to script querying the itch.io or Uro shards API. This proposal aims to make this #information more accessible to those who would not script it.

Is there a reason why this should be core and done by us?

We need this to grow the community.

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