Please allow updating interaction message flags

[yourWaifu]

I ran into a problem, I want to edit the message flags of an interaction message. This would simply my bot's code and makes a better user experience. Here's the current solution:
User uses slash command

bot response with a normal message

user clicks button and bot edits response

Here's what I want

bot edits response

What happens instead

Here's the code in case you want that. https://github.com/yourWaifu/is-your-waifu-legal/blob/master/discord-bot/bot.cpp

Solutions I tried:
delete the ephemeral

can't delete, and if user deletes it, it gives you the above

Keep the ephemeral
The user can keep pressing the buttons more than once, which isn't part of my design.

Added Complexity with current solution:
Other users can click the buttons

You can't gray or hide buttons for users that don't have permission from the bot. At least, no way that I'm aware of.
I also don't want other users to see this message, meaning the feature I that want isn't possible.

[BadCoder1337]

Autocomplete interactions were implemented for this purpose

[yourWaifu]

I'm already using autocomplete

https://github.com/yourWaifu/is-your-waifu-legal/blob/77a3fe97c743b48906eaac75a4c895d75c294ecb/discord-bot/bot.cpp#L284-L304

[yourWaifu]

Relying solely on Autocomplete, by not having a did you mean message, might be a possible solution if that's what you are suggesting.

[TheKing-OfTime]

Ephemeral messages are not ordinary messages, they are not stored on the Discord servers. Only in the cache of the client who received the message. By removing the flag of such a message, it will not become ordinary.

In your case, it would look good to respond to the slash command with an ephemeral message with text, and respond to button with an ordinary message with a picture. Also, by clicking on the button, you can delete an ephemeral message with text.

[yourWaifu]

Not sure what your solution is. But since ephemeral messages aren't stored on the server, let's just hide or gray out the buttons for different users, should this be a separate feature request maybe?

[yourWaifu]

OK, I was able to come up with my own solution. Before sending out the did you mean message, send a message response with a message like "Waiting on user". This message should also not have the ephemeral flag. You'll see why later. Then send the did you mean message as a follow up with the ephemeral flag.

You'll want to store the interaction ID and token from the slash command, as we'll be using it later. Don't forget to erase them after 15 mins.
After the user presses the button, we edit the did you mean message to something like "The answer is above". Then edit the original interaction using the ID and token you stored earlier.

Here's the source code to this yourWaifu/is-your-waifu-legal@7569cf2

[yourWaifu]

By the way, I tried using a deferred message, and got this.

Follow-up message isn't ephemeral, not sure if this is a bug or by design.

Here's what happens when you use a deferred update message
Error 400
{"code": 50035, "errors": {"type": {"_errors": [{"code": "BASE_TYPE_CHOICES", "message": "Value must be one of {9, 4, 5}."}]}}, "message": "Invalid Form Body"}
Which is what I expected but I tried it just in case.

You also can't delete the follow-up ephemeral message, I tried and got a 404 error.