Slash command migration
TL;DR: Use slash commands. Text commands are being phased out by Discord.
At the end of August 2022, Discord is going to forbid almost
all verified bots from reading message contents. One of the bots affected by
this change is Crom. To prepare users for this change, you are no longer able
to trigger Crom using text prefixes like crom au or ?? 173.
Slash commands
Crom fully supports slash commands. Type / into your chat window to open a panel listing all the slash commands you can run. Every text command has a slash command variant, and some new features can only be used with slash commands.
| Previous text command | New slash command |
|---|---|
?? [query] | /search [query] |
crom search [query] | /search [query] |
crom help | - |
crom random | /random |
crom lc | /latest |
crom au [name] | /author [name] |
crom au | /self |
crom link/unlink | /link |
crom info | /settings [name] |
crom edit [name] [value] | /settings [name] [value] |
crom report [feedback] | /feedback [feedback] |
| - | /fullsearch [query] |
Many commands have an optional argument called wiki to fetch from a wiki
other than the server's default. Optional arguments can be entered by
pressing their name in the "Options" panel.
You can't make edits to your slash command response, but you can self-delete slash command responses on desktop. Right-click the response you want to delete, select "Apps", and click on "Delete command".
Mention Crom
As a short-term alternative, Crom also supports text-style commands that start with a bot mention. This syntax will stop working at the end of September 2022.
- Instead of typing in
crom ..., just ping@CROM .... - The
?? ...syntax for searching articles won't be supported, but you can use@CROM search ...or@CROM s ...instead.
FAQ
Why did you remove text commands?
It's a decision that comes from Discord. At the end of August 2022, Discord blocked Crom from reading message text entirely.
Why did you do this a month before you had to?
Switching command syntaxes is hard! Making this change early gave me the ability to alert users when they type in a text command. If I waited until the end of August, Crom would've simply stop responding to text commands, and it would've seemed like the bot was broken.
As of August 2022, Crom no longer warns users when text commands are used.
How do I manage permissions for slash commands?
Slash command permissions are managed separately from user permissions. See Discord's blog post on slash command permissions for more details.
Crom only needed access to message contents to parse and respond to commands in messages, and has never stored or logged non-command contents. See the privacy policy for more details.