Options for context menu commands

[n3oney]

Currently, only CHAT_INPUT (aka slash) commands can accept options.
That means, the only input a message command that appears in the context menu can get is the message it was used on, the guild it was used in and the user that used the command.

Now in my opinion, that is a lot of missed potential. I can't find many ideas of how I could use those types. One idea I can see is eg. an /avatar command. You could easily implement that as a user command, and it would be good for UX.

However, I wish I could have some moderation commands in the context menu! For example, I could right-click a message, choose a report command, have a popup appear that would ask me for example for the reason of the report and any additional details, and then send the command.
It could also be used for a warn command - I could right click a message, click report and then type in the reason (and any additional data if the bot needs it). This way a user would not only know the reason for the warn (as of right now), but also the specific message they were warned for. Same goes for bans.
The commands above are easily implementable using "normal" text-based commands, where the bot reads the chat, simply by replying to the message we want to highlight.

We already have some UI for interactions like this, for example the user kick and ban options. They ask for more details, both on desktop and mobile. Therefore, I don't see any reason we can't have options in context-menu commands.

If this is already a planned feature and I wrote all of this for no reason, please add it to #3581!

[miike3459]

Want to add on to this - as much as I like the idea of popout boxes that appear, I think there's a lot of potential in a simple hover options feature for context menu buttons. For one, it would be click-only for the user and allows the usage of simple options without adding complexity to the interaction on the application or client side.

I believe the hover options feature is most implementable at this point, but the popout boxes described above would be nice as well.

[Feathers8]

I think popout boxes are planned actually
This is from their "future of bots" blog post

[n3oney]

If so - great! I still don't see them in #3581 though. I hope they really are planned!