duplicate messages with role mentions - second message gives HTTPError [AbortError]: The user aborted a request.

[the-vampiire]

Describe the bug

i have a message sent to a channel (channel.send). when it sends the first time each day it duplicates the message (a few seconds after the first) and then i get the following error in logs:

HTTPError [AbortError]: The user aborted a request.
...stack trace...

the mentions work. the content all renders fine. it just gets duplicated.

the message has the following shape:

• an @everyone as its only content
• an @role as the description of the embed in the message content (there are 3 other embeds but no mentions in them)

{
  content: "@everyone",
  embeds: [...]
}

the first embed also includes a role mention in its description

• the role id is correct and the mention works
• ive replaced it with someRole for making this report generic

 new MessageEmbed()
        .setDescription(
          `${roleMention(someRole.id)} get ready!`,
        )
...

To Reproduce

unfortunately i cant reproduce this on my test server (identical code its just only me or at most 5-10 people i bring it for testing). it only happens in the real one.

Screenshots

Additional notes

subsequent times the message is sent (same message content, same channel, same server) do not have this issue.

server details where it happens:

• @everyone hits about 2k members
• @ROLE hits about 200

[the-vampiire]

here is a screenshot if it helps. you can see the role mention is working (orange role - orange glow)

[the-vampiire]

Update: moved the role mention to the content field to fix separate a notification bug. Still duplicating though.

I've logged throughout the code and there's no duplicate calls being made. Really at a loss.

[the-vampiire]

do you have any advice on how to debug this? as i mentioned i have checked all of my code and no calls are being duplicated. but maybe there are some events i can hook into to see whats happening.

[the-vampiire]

hey guys i figured this out. what happened was my message builder returned a promise (because inside it i was making some other reqs to populate data).

what i had was

return channel.send(await buildMessageX(...))

i moved it to be

const messageX = await buildMessageX(...);
return channel.send(messageX)

and the issue went away. sorry for all the commotion