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DDevs Q&A January 28 2022 Summary

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This is a nonexhaustive summary of the DDevs Q&A stage. Most of the points below are paraphrased for brevity. Ephasis is my own unless explicitly stated, and my opinions on certain things may shine through. Please refer to a VOD of the stage for the exact wording from the Discord Developers.

Before the good stuff, some other stuff

• No slido for this one, you can thank the ***hole(s) who dossed slido.
• Remember to enable the "add to server" button for your bot in the dev panel. You need to enable it to be listed in the upcoming app discovery. This also now shows on mobile clients
• They don't want to repeat questions, please see the previous Q&A summaries for previous answers
• Verification + message intent ticket queues are caught up to Jan 4th. Some older tickets exist and are prioritized above others due to a bug with zendesk.

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DDevs Q&A December 2021 Summary - Happy Holidays!

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This is a nonexhaustive summary of the DDevs Q&A stage. Most of the points below are paraphrased for brevity. Ephasis is my own unless explicitly stated, and my opinions on certain things may shine through. Please refer to a VOD of the stage for the exact wording from the Discord Developers.

Upcoming Features (and demos if available)

• Application Commands Permissions V2
  • "Super super super close"
  • Will not release before the holidays because fixing things on christmas is just not cool
• Closed beta testing will occur after the holidays

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DDevs Q&A November 2021 Summary

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This is a nonexhaustive summary of the DDevs Q&A stage. Most of the points below are paraphrased for brevity. Ephasis is my own unless explicitly stated, and my opinions on certain things may shine through. Please refer to a VOD of the stage for the exact wording from the Discord Developers.

Upcoming Features (and demos if available)

• App Discoverability (partially released)
  • making it easier to find useful fun bots.
  • Part of this was the "Add to Server" Button.
• Verification is not required for adding the button.

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This is a nonexhaustive, slightly opinionated list of answers from the DDevs stage channel. Most of this is paraphrased for simplicity. Please refer to their recording for their full statements.

• Bots may be getting access to use per-guild avatars on themselves.
• Allowing invite tracking with an invite field on GUILD_MEMBER_ADD event may be coming, however they are first talking to T&S because of the elevated risk for spam/abuse (eg get $5 for getting 10 people to join with your link)
• They are considering something similar to profile banners for bots, no further info given
• text fields for components is coming, among other coming things. but they haven't written tech specs yet, its pretty early.
• repeating arguments for slash commands (multi-selects), is currently something they want to add, and is on the short-list to get added, but permissions stuff is higher priority.
• They WILL be doing another application.commands migration!!!!! They are waiting until the new perms system is finalized. The

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Additions

• Bauble of Undying Mod
  • No longer need to hold the totem in your offhand
• AI Improvements Mod
  • Hopefully fix some of the lag on bloodmoon
• Faithful 3D Resource Pack
  • For the lovers of 3D blocks, have some faithful ones
• Faithful Modded Resource Pack
  • Adds faithful looking textures for tons of modded blocks and items.

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Added:

• Thaumic Arcana (thaum expansion)
• Thaumic Additions: Reconctructed (thaum extension)
• InstantUnify (automatically converts the ores you mine/ingots/etc into the same version. No longer 8 different copper ores in your inventory).
• Mo' Bends (some additional animations for the vanilla monsters. so they fit with the modded ones better)
• Moving Quickly (server only, so you don't get rubber banded when flying or using vehicles)
• RealBench (crafting benches hold their items)
• LSitET (Lapis Stays in the Enchanting Table)
• ActuallyComputers (Actually additions integration with OpenComputers)