2nd April 2024

The Aussie BroadWAN has its own Discord bot for it's server. This is open for development by members of the small community. This is written in Go for no particular reason than to just improve skills in the language. The bot supports App Commands and channel message "moderation". The Tony framework can be extended upon if needed for other kind of bot functionalities.

The first thing you will need to do is create a bot application on discord. This can be done by following the Discord Dev Doc. Once you have made a bot, create or fetch you Bot Token and put it in a .env file.

Note: There is an example .env file called .env.example, you can rename this in your directory to .env and use that.

Once you have setup your app, bot and added it into a discord server, then you are ready to run the program. Eventually there will be binaries avaliable but for now you can just compile it yourself. You will need go installed, if you don't then go to the Go Install docs. Once you have the go then you can run the following in the project directory:

# Build and Compile the program
go build .

# Run the Program
./tony

Note: Future development will move the program into a Docker container for easier deploying, but this is just a rush job to get a basic bot up and running.

• ping: Sends the user a Pong @<user>! message. This is only for testing.

  • ping button: Responses with a button which the user can press for the same functionality as the ping command

• remind: A system to add deplayed message or reminders for users.

  • add <time> <message>: The message to add and when to remind the user
  • del <id>: Deletes a message, assuming the user owns the message
  • status <id>: Get how much time is left on a reminder
  • list: List the ID and times of all the user's reminders

• tech-news [MODERATION]: A system to ensure posts being made in the #tech-news channel is in a specific format.

• rss [MODERATION]: A system to ensure posts being made in the #rss channel is in a specifc format.

• autopin [REACTION]: A system which automatically pins messages if there are 5 or more 📌 reacts.