Select Menu: Extend number of options

[pablomayobre]

One common use case for option menus is a date picker. With the current ammount of options you can't cover the whole range of days (50 would be enough to cover all days).

Not even mentioning years (here 100 would be great)

[tylovejoy]

I'd love the 25 slash command option choices upped as well!

[gnubufferoverflows]

They should just add a date picker option that converts to unix epoch or something, much better than large amounts of slash commands options, as most people aren't going to want commands with more than 25 parameters, that would be extremely tedious.

[IanMitchell]

We likely won't expand the choices - the limitation exists for performance reasons as well as UX ones, especially on mobile. We do want to add a datepicker slash command type, and an autocomplete system that allows for a more dynamic list of options - I think these would solve a lot of the common use cases needing additional options. Some of this is on our API roadmap 😄

[pablomayobre]

What does datepicker slash command type mean? will it also be a message component?

[AlmostSuspense]

A slash commands option that lets you pick a date

[pablomayobre]

I think slash commands don't really have much to do with message components.

Example use case: My bot generates a private room on my server for the user to send their information, including their birthday.

Here I would love to have a component that just allows me to get a Date directly from the user interacting with the question sent by the bot (ie: "What's your birthday?") currently we make the user type it out, in the near future we are just asking for age ranges though we lose information (we can't congratulate them on their birthday).

Slash commands are generally not limited to a channel, and would allow the user to change their info at any time. not sure if it's ideal.

[IanMitchell]

and an autocomplete system that allows for a more dynamic list of options

This would be a message component :)