Bot activity presence occasionally disappears

[queer]

Unsure how to describe it better in the title. Occasionally, a bot's activity ("playing XXX") will disappear; I'm not sure how to repro (if we even could on our end). I'm assuming it's something related to handoff between session servers not working right (like with the previous bug where dispatches would no longer fire), but obviously I can't know for sure. I'll see if I can get some debug traces in the next few days if it'd help. Not sure if I would be able to, in no small part just because this issue doesn't manifest very often it seems.

[SinisterRectus]

Does refreshing the client reload the status?

[queer]

No, hence thinking it's a server-side issue

[jhgg]

This is a known bug when we deploy code on the backend.

[ghost]

I know this is old and all, but I'm facing the same issue. I left my bot running overnight and the next day the activity presence disappeared.

[florea326]

same here, could someone help?

[MinnDevelopment]

You can simply send the same presence again in some interval. That will ensure your presence doesn't get removed permanently.

[florea326]

and how can I do that, please help?

[Ayfri]

@Noemai this is not what they are asking for, they are asking for a JDA way.

[advaith1]

They never mentioned what lib, but lib support should be in the lib's server, not here

[florea326]

yeah i use py

[codedipper]

I am also having this issue, with v12.2.0 of discord.js.

[InanisOmnia]

Bot Activity disappears

I don't think it is acceptable to have to refresh the activity on a regular basis, it should be that the bot will retain its activity setting it once (just like a custom status for users it will remain until changed)

This is an issue with the library or how discord operates with bots and should be changed

I retract this statement

[karelkryda]

Bot Activity disappears

I don't think it is acceptable to have to refresh the activity on a regular basis, it should be that the bot will retain its activity setting it once (just like a custom status for users it will remain until changed)

This is an issue with the library or how discord operates with bots and should be changed

I agree

[DevItsMB]

I still have that issue, I just discoverd this thread and I thought I was the only one but I was wrong.
It is actually annoying that you have to restart the bot with a command or via cmd to get the presence back.

[Sazzo]

Having the same problem here, it's a little annoying to be honest.

[LoneDev6]

Same thing, discordjs 12

[jimmybrancaccio]

Just chiming in as the same thing has been happening to me as well for a while.

[EtzBetz]

I'm obviously affected by this bug as well, I think that this shouldn't happen.

[kawaiiseiba]

discord.js v13.4.0 and I'm also having the same issue.

[mayankpatibandla]

discord.js v13.6.0, the issue still persists

[Nitsugua38]

I still have that issue, I just discoverd this thread and I thought I was the only one but I was wrong. It is actually annoying that you have to restart the bot with a command or via cmd to get the presence back.

The issue is still here sometimes. Anyway, if you don’t wanna restart your bot to set his status : add a command to your bot that only you can execute (it checks your ID) to set the presence again.

[JstnMcBrd]

I am also interested in this problem being fixed. Commenting to add myself to the thread so I receive future notifications.

I've worked around this problem by having the user activity be refreshed regularly, but it's far from ideal.

[JstnMcBrd]

For anyone else who runs into this problem with discord.js, I was able to fix it by setting the client's activity in the client constructor, instead of setting it later.

const activityOptions: ActivityOptions = { ... };
const client = new Client({
	presence: {
		activities: [activityOptions],
	},
	...
};

It's been a couple weeks since I implemented this, and I haven't needed to refresh the activity at all.

This solution was suggested here: discordjs/discord.js#10206 (comment)