A small Sunday afternoon scale Discord bot, implementing a "recommendation wheel" based on a random conversation with one of my metamours.
This should be considered a work in progress, but it works well enough for a small server. :)
[redacted]:
I know what they mean, but the way I immediately interpreted this as “I would participate in the polycule discord”
Amdusias:
hahaha I mean we joke about how we already have a video chat service and a graphing tool, we may as well
[redacted]:
This would be an album recommendation roulette wheel thing
Amdusias:
yeah, that's a neat idea
[redacted]:
Currently a bot on telegram in a music chat I’m in
Amdusias:
so how does this work?
if your slot comes up you have an album ready to go?
[redacted]:
When the wheel is spun it pairs you with a random other user on the wheel
And you ask them what kind of album they’re feeling, gage their taste
Snaking, not pairs
Amdusias:
ah cool!
[redacted]:
It’s a cool way to share music
Amdusias:
yeah! that's actually cool for sure
sounds like something [redacted] would like too
[redacted]:
Could easily work with any other medium too (film, books, etc)
Amdusias:
and it's also like
god I do *not* need another project hahaha
but writing the discord bot to do that is actually easy
Users may have one of four participation levels:
ALWAYS: they will be included in all future spins of the wheelONCE: they will be included in the next spin of the wheelINTERESTED: they will be notified before the wheel is spun, but not actually included in the spin itself unless they re-tag toALWAYSorONCENEVER: not a real level, as this is just "not actually in the user database";remove medeletes oneself from the database because that makes the API simpler ;)
First, install it as a Discord bot. The exact steps to doing this are outside the scope of this README, but here is Discord's documentation for doing so at time of writing.
The API, once it's installed, is as follows (all requests must be directed to the bot with @recwheel, or whatever else you named it):
add me once: sign up for participating the next time the wheel is spunadd me always: sign up for participating in all future spinsadd me interested: mark yourself as "interested"; interested users will be tagged byprespinbut not byspinremove me: no longer participate in future wheel spinsprespin: notifies users that the wheel is about to be spun, tags all users registered as "interested"spin: spins the wheelhelp: prints this menu
When prespin is run, all participants at all levels are notified. This gives users a chance to opt in before the wheel is spun.
When spin is run, all users tagged ALWAYS or ONCE are put into a list and then shuffled. Each user in this list is pointed to the next user, and the last pointed to the first. Each user should then discuss the chosen topic with the user that their arrow points to.
After spin is run, all users tagged as ONCE are moved back to INTERESTED.
(c) 2023 Ammy I guess.