Permanent roles view

[mbaruh]

Our current setup is that users must run !subscribe in bot-commands in order to bring up a view of all self-assignable roles.

We should create a permanent view in #roles with a single button which will essentially run the command (with an ephemeral message).

This is more in line with how it works in other communities, with a better UI than running a command, and arguably better discoverability.

The current !subscribe command should remain as-is for the time being.

[shtlrs]

That's a great idea, can I yoink this?

[mbaruh]

Sure!

[shtlrs]

@mbaruh What do you think of redirection users to the bot-commands channel when they click on that button in the #roles channel ?

The problem is, since we want them to be ephemeral messages, the bot won't be able to edit them whenever a user clicks on a particular role, which makes it non feasible.

I worked around this by giving the 2nd view a timeout, and it gets deleted upon timeout, and it works just fine.
The only thing that worries me is that people would spam this, which causes the #roles channel to become clattered and I don't see that as a good option.

So what I thought of, we do the same thing we do for users when they execute a command in an appropriate channel, the bot sends the response in #bot-commands & tags them there.

The current workaround can be seen in af58814

[mbaruh]

Ephemeral messages can be edited.

If they spam it and it becomes cluttered that's their problem, they're the only ones who will see the clutter.

Alternatively we can keep track of which users have an active view and not display more than one active view for the same user, but that's not required.

[shtlrs]

Ok, I think I know what was wrong.
Ignore my last comment then, and thanks for the hint !