A minor release has been issued. [view source]
Changes:
Duration input now accepts w for weeks.[git]
JDA-NAS is not used for audio, hopefully reducing playback stutters.[git]
*calc now supports base conversion using to <base>.[git]
*calc now colorizes output by default, which can be turned off with mode nocolor.[git]
*chat has been rewritten from the ground up.[git]
Fixes:
A minor release has been issued. [view source]
Changes:
The release cycle has changed; snapshots are now accumulated until enough changes are made to warrant a release, which receives an entry on this website and in the #libot-announcements channel on Discord. You can subscribe to the Atom feed of authoritative.git if you're interested in changes as they're made. Snapshot releases still enter production, but I don't publish the changelogs anymore.
The changelog format has also changed a bit - changes are now divided between additions, changes and fixes, and hyperlinks to change commits are now appended rather than prepended.
*seek and *loop now work on Ogg files thanks to a change in lavaplayer-fork 1.4.0.[git]
Timestamp input is now more user friendly - absolute timestamps are no longer preferred, and numbers without a unit in relative timestamps are now treated as seconds.[git]
*avatar now fetches the highest resolution of the avatar available (up to 4,096px × 4,096px).[git] It now also displays the image resolution,[git] size, and it reuploads the avatar so it persists in case it's changed or removed by the user.[git]
*avatar now uses displays the image resolution and size
Fixes:
The parent repository's name was changed from authorative[sic] to authoritative because, as it turns out, I'm incapable of spelling things right. I've set up a HTTP redirect on cgit, but your git remotes will unfortunately need to be updated manually.
*calc no longer prepends the output with = or ≈ when the output already contains the symbol (for example in equations).[git]
Fixed a bug in the way absolute timestamp underflow is handled.[git]
A minor release has been issued. [view source]
Changes:
[view] Update Qalculate's monetary exchange rates in the background (hourly) to speed up *calc
A hotfix release has been issued. [view source]
Changes:
[view core] [view module-games] [view module-utilities] Resolve ambiguity with keepPrompt on confirm(f) overloads
A minor release has been issued. [view source]
Changes:
[view] Reaction-based yes/no prompts for guess confirmation *akinator, drawn card placement confirmation in *uno, and various questions in *poll are no longer deleted after interaction
A minor release has been issued. [view source]
Changes:
Combined list of changes between LiBot 5.0.0-1 and 5.0.0-6:
[5.0.0-1] [view] Fixed a minor issue in the command prefix parser
[5.0.0-3] [view] Fixed a critical issue in the confirmation prompt
[5.0.0-4] [view] Fixed a major issue preventing AutoRole from being disabled
[5.0.0-5] [view] Fixed a major issue with the hourly reward generation for *money
[5.0.0-6] [view] Fixed a minor issue with *rockpaperscissors's input parsing
[5.0.0-6] Updated dependencies to latest versions (including libqalculate to v4.4.0)
TL;DR: LiBot has been rewritten, which means you will need to readd it to your guild(s).
After nearly two years of mostly minor updates, I'm proud to finally present the next major version of LiBot. Primarily, this update cleverly addresses the verification plaguing the past release - instead of verifying the bot and submitting an image of my passport to discord and their partners to process, I instead opted to split LiBot between multiple bot users. This means that you will be able to add it to your guilds again! Splitting it like that ensures that each individual one stays below 100 guilds, while the collective can reach as many guilds as needed. All instances (or shreds, as I call them) act as one, with any cross-guild features being able to access guilds of other shards. Needless to say, all guilds are limited to possessing at most one shred to avoid taking up more of the system's capacity than needed.
While most important, this is actually the smallest part of the update - the entire codebase has been rewritten. Over time, it had accumulated large chunks of unnecessary code that made it incredibly hard to maintain, especially considering I've only been adding to it since LiBot's inception in 2017, with a few rare exceptions. Since I've also taken the time to remove all hard-coded tokens and secrets, I will be able to release the source officially on git.zajc.eu.org and GitHub.
As such, I will likely resume working on LiBot. As discord has been increasingly restrictive towards bots, I will probably focus on making LiBot compatible with other platforms, a good start for which would be Matrix. I will possibly also be reimplementing some of the removed features, mainly *leaderboard and *mathquiz (more on that later).
Below is a non-exhaustive list of additions, changes, and removals I've made to the bot and everything related to it in this release. Since this is such a large release that took a while to make, I will probably miss a few things, but the most important things are listed.
Added: shredding support! As already described above, this bit will allow LiBot to be added to new guilds at long last. This also comes with a diagnostic *shredder command.
Unfortunately, this also comes at a cost - since the legacy LiBot instance is already present in more than 100 guilds, I will not be able to add it to the system without first removing the excess (600 or so) guilds. This will be necessary after August 31, 2022, as this is the deadline for the message content intent. This effectively means that discord will no longer supply LiBot with the content of sent messages, which is required for commands to work. An alternative to that would be migrating to discord's "slash commands", but I have reservations about doing that (primarily the poor state of the slash commands UI in the client, and that it would not address the verification issue).
This means you will be required to readd LiBot to your guild! Fortunately, doing so is easy (as long as you have the 'Manage Server' permission. All you have to do is click the link, and follow the authorization prompt's instructions.
An unintended side-effect of shredding is a much faster start-up time for LiBot. Discord limits the number of guilds that can be loaded to about 100 per minute, and because I load all of them on startup, it ended up taking some 7 minutes to load all of them. As all shreds are limited to 100 guilds, they never hit the ratelimit, and load all of the guilds instantly.
Added: a website for LiBot (you're looking at it right now). I have been postponing this for far too long, but it was unavoidable with the addition of shredding, as the website is responsible for load-balancing the shreds between guilds, such that the shred with the least guilds is picked on the /get route.
On top of that, I will be hosting changelogs and documentation for LiBot here (once I get around to writing it). I also host a mail inbox here, which means I can offer support over email if there's any use for that.
I should probably note that the website's overall design is inspired by bedrocklinux.org's.
Changed: *calculator now uses Qalculate! as the backend (replacing EvalEx). Qalculate! supports numerous functions, constants, and unit conversions. It can solve equations, integrate, perform complex number arithmetic, and much more (it can also plot graphs, but LiBot does not support that as it would require a bit more involved use of Gnuplot).
Changed: guilds are now able to run more than one poll at the same time (up to 10). Likewise, users are able to have more than one reminder set (not limited).
Changed: *blackjack has been rewritten from scratch. It should now follow the game's rules better.
Removed: the entire Messaging command category (that's *mail, *message, *message, *blockuser, *unblockuser, and *getblocked). *feedback stays and has been relocated to the LiBot.
These commands could be used for sending unsolicited messages, and I feel like it's not possible to make blocking unwanted users intuitive enough, even with blocking commands in place. Spam could previously be avoided by simply blocking the bot itself (not a good solution but works nevertheless), but this would no longer work as the bot is now split between multiple users (via shredding). It is impossible to tell whether a user has blocked the bot (without trying to send a message at least), so I could not simply apply a block of one bot to all of them.
Removed: *backup and *restore. They were two of the longest commands in the bot (754 sloc for backup, 583 for restore!), were written in a rather unmaintainable manner, and served no purpose after the addition of server templates.
Removed: *getid. This was primarily needed as a "user-friendly" way of getting user IDs for use with the (now removed) messaging commands. There is no reason to keep this around, especially since Discord lets you copy snowflake IDs via the right-click context menu when developer mode is enabled in the settings (which is arguably less tedious than using *getid in the first place).
Removed: *leaderboard. This might get added as a guild-local feature, but I felt like displaying usernames and discriminators of users from other guilds by default (even with a not-so-obvious way of opting out) is not a very clever thing to do. On the other hand, simply making it opt-in would likely render it useless, as I doubt people would bother to do that.
Removed: *mathquiz, which relied on a dependency I no longer maintain and was written rather hastily with pretty poor writing standards. This meant having an out-of-tree dependency (that wasn't in any repository, so I'd have to take care of that too), which would make building LiBot more tedious for no good reason. The idea was pretty nifty, so I might readd it in the future.
Removed: *audioplayer. The codebase of this command was incredibly messy, as well as rather poorly structured (the entire thing was powered by one long while(true)) loop. It was essentially an interactive way to call music commands, so I don't think rewriting it would justify the effort.
Removed: *rewind, as it was just a shortcut for *seek 0.
Changed: *akinator now displays akitudes (the little emotes in the corner) using the same logic as en.akinator.com (yes, they're not random).
Changed: *uno no longer highlights possible placements (because there was no reason for it to in the first place).
Changed: *dice now displays a different emoji based on the rolled number.
Changed: *lenny now constructs random emoji itself instead of relying on a web API.
Changed: *urbandictionary now sorts entries correctly (or at least as close as I could get).
Changed: the *money hourly reward curve has been flattened a bit.
Changed: *help's format (both for the command list and for command usage help) has been revised, so it should hopefully be easier to read.
Changed: LiBot now uses replies for most messages.
Changed: most commands (even the ones not listed here) have an updated interface.
Removed: *declutter, *maintenance, and *threaddump, which are purely administrative commands, so that shouldn't matter too much to end users.