diff --git a/src/script.org b/src/script.org index 8497500..c9b6406 100644 --- a/src/script.org +++ b/src/script.org @@ -126,12 +126,21 @@ i hinted a second ago at the 3E strategy: Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. it's how Shtikbot exists on discord and twitch, and the vast majority of work that went into shtikbot was working around the platforms it served. *** discord discord was originally the way you got a voice chat going with your gamer bros who aren't smart enough to install mumble. -where's that scrumble your wumpus meme? -over time it became a much more successful company, and therefore worse and worse. They allowed bots, but the goal was always for a bot to be a way for /you/ to improve /their/ product. that's why they've been hellbent on slash commands the whole time - if it's successful enough, you have to justify to discord why your chatbot should be allowed to chat. There's a discord developers discord - and the most common phrase on it is "that's not a valid use case for message reading. just use slash commands." now don't get me wrong, slash commands are a very cool extension, for savvy users. but if you're tech savvy, you don't like discord. Discord has been pushing developers to start developing games that exist within discord. a baffling development, much like when netflix did the same. Thankfully, i'm pretty sure both flopped. after all of that, 2023 was inflicted on us all, so discord made their first chatbot, claude. all prior bots had their tag of "bot" changed to "app", and claude was given the tag "AI". Then it was forced into servers. -Claude, in how many servers, just hooked up your chat messages to some LLM. nothing else. sorry i'm just still mad that it sent me a message out of nowhere talking about its TOS. bro i never wanted you around. -I'm like 10% sure it used to be possible to invite a bot to a group chat. i'm definitely sure the file size limit has always been described as 10MB, but at least for my bot it's actually 8MB. i'm pretty sure if the bot asks discord what its attachment limit is, discord tells it 10MB. +Claude, in how many servers, just hooked up your chat messages to some LLM. nothing else. +[squidward going "FUTURE. FUTURE."] +where's that scrumble your wumpus meme? +[must find that meme about "scrumble your wumpus"] +discord is happy to say "use an app bro, c'mon use an app". so if you go to the attachments tab, you'll see that they caught up to Matrix by introducing built-in polls... but it's hidden behind "USE AN APP" +discord wants you to use stickers... which are just paid gifs. i guess they saw everyone dunking on NFTs and said "but no one can right-click /our/ apes"? +discord introduced "orbs", the old "store credit" model. + +meanwhile, as for people making features that range from equally as useless as all that to arguably actually useful... +I'm like 10% sure it used to be possible to invite a bot to a group chat. +i'm definitely sure the file size limit has always been described as 10MB, but at least for my bot it's actually 8MB. i'm pretty sure if the bot asks discord what its attachment limit is, discord tells it 10MB. +over time it became a much more successful company, and therefore worse and worse. They allowed bots, but the goal was always for a bot to be a way for /you/ to improve /their/ product. that's why they've been hellbent on slash commands the whole time - if it's successful enough, you have to justify to discord why your chatbot should be allowed to chat on the chat platform you're working on. +There's a discord developers discord - and the most common phrase on it is "that's not a valid use case for message reading. just use slash commands." now don't get me wrong, slash commands are a very cool extension, for savvy users. but if you're tech savvy, you don't like discord. *** twitch i talked about the madness of the twitch API. Fortunately, GLORIOUSLY, the chat part has been mostly compliant with RFC1459 and IRCv3 - so for shtikbot, intending to be /its own bot/, rather than /a twitch bot/, theoretically everything could be done through that. Great. That was all that was ever needed. /however/, that was the E2 phase. Twitch is moving forward to [[https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/deprecation-of-chat-commands-through-irc/40486][Extinguish]]. Now ok, fine, they had to wrangle their several different APIs into one, and as long as they're on a roll with that, might as well finish what you started. so that's tolerable. what's inexcusable is how brazenly they abuse a stupidly conception of security.