Discord?

[Alex-451]

Wouldnt it be nice to make this program a discord bot?

Right now this program is not really meant for "regular" users so wouldnt it be nice to turn this into a discord bot so more people can use what we have developed?

[1RedOne]

See this functionality under Utilities\DiscordSender.cs

[aherd2985]

If you want to go a different route than webhooks, you may be able to implement something like this:

https://docs.stillu.cc/guides/getting_started/first-bot.html

If we had something like that, we could tie it to an AI and create a chat or QnA bot:

https://www.qnamaker.ai/

[Alex-451]

Yeah that was exactly what i was thinking about, do you think it would be a good idea to rewrite the program and make it a propper discord bot?

[aherd2985]

Could the new bot be created as a utility and built out on its own?

Trying to keep this as an open playground that anyone can add to.

[Alex-451]

We could make a "main project" which contains all the discord related stuff and then a "module" project which contains all the commands and functionallity. That would still allowe people to easily add new module / functions.

What do you think about that?

[ArturLavrov]

@AlexGipp I think that we could combine both approaches.
From my perspective we could slightly reorganise solution with a following structure:

• UtilityBelt.Core

This layer will contains all main thing. For instance logging, how we load utilities and so on.
Also core utils could lives here.

• UtilityBelt.Console

This will be good old console app with existing command line interface.

• UtilityBelt.DiscordBot

Will be your implementation of app functionality for Discord

What do you think about?

[Alex-451]

the thing is that all the modules dont return a string for example, they all Console Writeline so we would definetly rewrite those a bit @ArturLavrov

[Alex-451]

@aherd2985 i think the smartest thing would be to just create a second branch for the rework

[aherd2985]

Great idea @ArturLavrov

That approach would be more scalable and keep the spirit of it being open-ended.

I'd like this repo to have a solid foundation that encourages modular building. Hopefully we can keep it easy for contributors but also versatile enough to support growth in any direction.