Updates

🎉 What’s Changed

• Lobbies: Create and join lobbies to instantly chat with other users on InterChat.

  Images

• New UI: A fresh new look for the bot with a modern and clean design.

• New Web Hub Finder: Search and join hubs directly from our hub browser, interchat.fun/hubs!

• Improved Replies: If an image URL is added to a reply, the replying-to embed is now removed for a cleaner view.

  Images

  Before

  After

• Enhanced Mentions: Pings now appear in message replies, improving context and user interactions

  Images

• Better NSFW Detection: Now uses a better model for detecting NSFW images.

• Message Details: Redesigned the messageInfo embed for better clarity and user experience.

  Images

• Mod Actions Panel: A new panel for moderators to view and take actions on infractions and other mod tasks such as:

  • Delete messages
  • View infractions
  • Blacklist users
  • View message details
  • Remove reactions
  Images

• Infractions System: New infraction management features for tracking past blacklists.

  Images

• add View Infractions command, and button to Mod actions panel #140 (dev-737)

• Profanity Check: Server names are now checked for profanity in when joining a hub.

• Hub Settings and Logging: Added /hub settings to toggle hub settings and /hub logging access logging features.

  Images

  Settings

  Logging

• Blacklist Appeals: Users can now appeal blacklists via a button, making the process more accessible.

  Images

• Message Information Command Update: Now has a mod actions button.

• Redis-based Message Storage: Messages are now stored fully in Redis for efficient retrieval and processing.

• Message Blocking: Introduced a block list that is similar to how discord automod works, for hubs to manage prohibited words and phrases. Can be managed via /hub blockwords.

  Images

• Hub Announcements: New command for admins to announce updates or news to all hub members.

• Random Hub Join Option: Users can now join a random hub if no invite or name is specified.

• Mod Commands: Added c!modpanel and c!deletemsg commands for moderators.

• We are slowly adding prefix versions of commands.

• Hubs now have requirements for going public. They must have a minimum of 2 mods, set report channel and be older than 24 hours.

  Images

Bug Fixes

• Long blacklists expire again!
• Onboarding Fix: Resolved a bug with onboarding in progress. (credits to @sourcerer31 for finding this, it was there for a while in v3)

</> New Commands

• /hub settings - Toggle hub settings.
• /hub logging - Access logging features.
• /hub blockwords - Manage prohibited words and phrases.
• /hub announce - Announce updates or news to all hub members.
• /about - View information about the bot and also credits.
• Apps > Moderation Actions - View and take actions on infractions and other mod tasks directly on messages.
• /hub infractions - View infractions for a user.
• /hub appeal set_cooldown - Set the cooldown for how often users can appeal blacklists. (eg. user can only appeal once every 7 days)
• /hub visibility - Set the visibility of the hub. (public or private)
• /set reply_mentions - Toggle whether you want to be pinged when someone replies to your messages.

Command Renames

• /connection customize 🡢 /connection edit
• /hub manage 🡢 /hub edit
• /hub joined 🡢 /connection list
• /hub moderator update 🡢 /hub moderator edit

Others

• Introducing a Fresh New Website: interchat.fun!
• New Hub Finder: interchat.fun/hubs

🎉 What’s Changed

• Logs for messages deleted by hub moderators (NEW)
• Global Ban command (beta) that bans people from the bot entirely :evilcat:
• InterChat mods can blacklist people people from other hubs, especially those that are un-moderated.
• Reduced /hub create cooldown from 1 hour to 10 minutes
• Apps > Delete Message takes slightly longer to avoid rate limits.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bugs with initial onboarding for new joiners

• Improved connection caching so channels get disconnected quickly after inactivity.

• Fixed No button in /hub leave not working

• New log channels can now be set again in /hub manage

🎉 What’s Changed

• Made /connection commands prettier and slightly improve /blacklist commands code and performance
• New invites channel #📊｜our-invites :D

Bug Fixes

• Fixed purge command errors
• Fixed /stats command server count (dev-737)
• Fixed bug with /blacklist list

🎉 What’s Changed

• Improved profanity filter

• Servers that don’t send messages for 24h will be disconnected (or paused from talking to a hub) for inactivity.

• /connection has been split into /connection customize, /connection pause and /connection unpause

• Vote notifications send to #📮 ｜ our-votes again, but about those vote rewards… 😟

• Fixed some bugs with server blacklisting

• Fixed caching issues for connections

• Changed the look of /invite

• Compact mode is now enabled by default. Use /connection customize to change it to embeds.

• Gifs won’t embed unless they are from Tenor or Giphy

  Userphone or something similar may come to the bot soon cause why not 🤷