Over the past few months, contrary to what you might have thought, no, I wasn't slacking off! I was actually working on a complete overhaul of John-Bot and its services. A lot has been going on behind the scenes, most notably bringing everything I've built for John-Bot together into one single project, making the services much easier to update and maintain.
This kind of update is essential in the life of a project, both to keep up with the best practices in technology and to make sure the project stays maintainable in the long run.
- Bot
- Completely rewrote the ticket transcript system, with much better support for Discord's newer components: polls, forwarded messages, threads, Components V2, and more
- Added a default avatar to transcripts: members who changed their avatar between the closing of their ticket and the viewing of the transcript are now shown this default avatar
- The /ping command now details the response time of every part of the infrastructure
- Unhandled errors are now logged and an error code is given to the user, making bugs much easier to track down
- Added support for all of Discord's new permissions
- Durations now accept and display weeks, months and years
- Experience points are now counted more reliably
- Mutes with a duration of 4 weeks are now supported
- If a member's data cannot be retrieved, the action will now fail, guaranteeing that every safety check is performed
- If a temporary ban fails to be lifted, it will be attempted again on the next run
- A giveaway's duration can no longer be negative (yes, that really was possible...)
- Messages whose content is too long are now truncated instead of failing to send
- Empty select menu answers no longer shift the other answers of the form
- A panel's previous message is only deleted once the new one has been sent successfully
- The transcript is only saved if the file was actually sent
- Fixed the default description of the leave message
- Fixed variables whose value contained certain special characters
- Fixed the buttons of paginated lists
- Various fixes and optimizations
- Website
- New video tutorial section on the Premium page
- Improved Discord message rendering
- Fixed the message preview and the Markdown rendering
- Fixed dropdown menus appearing behind other elements
- Various fixes and optimizations
- Global
- Bot updates will no longer cause any downtime
- Brought the bot, the API, the website and the side services together into one shared architecture
- Strengthened security across all services
And a whole lot of other things that aren't really interesting for you, John-Bot user.
