why is bot.chatAddPattern deprecated?

[xMdb]

i use this for my bot, why should I use bot.addChatPattern?

[TheDudeFromCI]

i use this for my bot, why should I use bot.addChatPattern?

bot.chatAddPattern(pattern, name, description) is depreciated.
bot.addChatPattern(name, pattern) is the correct modern usage.

[xMdb]

Don't you mean bot.chatAddPattern?

[TheDudeFromCI]

Oh yeah, fixed my comment.

[u9g]

It's not being removed soon, don't worry. The main reason it's deprecated is that we want people to use the new bot.addChatPattern becuase it bot.addChatPattern prefixes all events it emits with a chat: prefix so they don't conflict with native mineflayer events. Another reason is with bot.addChatPatten came bot.addChatPatternSet which is something new to mineflayer which allows waiting for many different patterns before emitting the event.

[xMdb]

alright thanks