When will Slash Commands be enabled by default for everyone?

[ChrisTalman]

Slash commands were officially announced to the public on 24 March 2021, but almost 4 months later, they're still disabled by default for a lot of users.

Could Discord please provide some indication of when they expect the feature to be enabled by default for all users?

As it stands, short of asking users to enable the feature, bots either need to implement both classic commands and Slash Commands, or just stick with classic commands. Otherwise, some users won't be able to interact with them.

[advaith1]

It is enabled for everyone, unless the user explicitly disabled the new text box at some point, in which case they will have to undo that and re-enable it.

[LikeLakers2]

The unfortunate part of this is that the toggle is all-or-nothing. I don't want the markdown preview, but I can't have slash commands without it, so I've opted to keep the old text box; I only toggle the new one on temporarily if I need to use a slash command (which I don't, most of the time).

There was some discussion over at #2368 about letting individual features of the new text box be disabled, but that discussion died quickly -- and in any case, I wouldn't expect Discord to find it worth the effort.

[ChrisTalman]

Interesting.

Most users seem able to use Slash Commands, but some can't, and don't recall disabling the setting. It's possible that they disabled it before the label mentioned Slash Commands. It's not a great state of affairs.

[IanMitchell]

advaith is right in that they're globally available, but there is a setting that disables them for users. If you have reports of slash commands not working with that setting enabled, please report it to the dtesters server!