Progress bars in deferred replies

[zptr1]

Adding ability to send and edit progress bar when deferring a reply would be a nice way to tell the user that the process is still going and the bot is still working.

When sending a deferred reply or editing it, you should be able to specify ending timestamp and/or progress bar:

{
  "type": 5,
  "data": {
    "end_timestamp": 1650044987,
    "progress": 55.7
  }
}

This will look like this for the user:

(sorry i'm too lazy to make a good concept rn)

Ending timestamp can be used to improve UX performance - discord could tell the user that something went wrong if the bot hasn't changed the reply for more than 3 seconds after the ETA expires

[ghost]

tbh, why not just both? it could display a progress bar and the ETA

Ending timestamp can be used to improve UX performance - discord could tell the user that something went wrong if the bot hasn't changed the reply for more than 3 seconds after the ETA expires

that seems cool. also, maybe a custom color for the progress bar itself? if not completely custom, maybe the user status colors of online, dnd, idle, and offline/invi for done, error, idled/warning, and no response/timed out respectively or something. (big bias for the implementation of these colors for buttons too, please, specifically the warning color...)

edit: adding to what was already mentioned, i feel like this could add more feel, which could inspire other developers to migrate to slash commands and interactions in general

[onerandomusername]

Aight, I thought about this interface a bit and how it might work (for no reason in particular)

There would be several types of display:

• COUNTDOWN
• BAR
• UNMARKED-BAR

We'd be able to set a few different things about the progress bar:

Param	Description	Types
style	countdown, bar, or unmarked-bar	All
end-time	must be a time in the future	All
start-time	optional, must present or the past	Bar
initial-percentage	optional, defaults to zero	Bar
count-seconds	(bool) whether to show seconds	Countdown

A countdown would be like a timer, counting down to zero.

Bar and unmarked bar would be progress bars, except unmarked would not really progress, but rather be a continuous animation.

Bar would show a typical progress bar that starts and moves to the end.

At any time, an app can patch these to change them, but these would be able to complete on their own

[gamer0mega]

i think snake case will fit better than kebab case

[onerandomusername]

case is irrelevant in the example, this is more what options there would be, not their names.

(they're also like that due to the markdown highlighter being weird where I initially posted this)

[dzlandis]

discord could tell the user that something went wrong if the bot hasn't changed the reply for more than 3 seconds after the ETA expires

I think a good idea for a response message could be "This appears to be taking longer than usual..." or something of the sort from Discord's end. I think this would be better then just having it error the command as it gives the bot a chance to still respond if experiencing elevated latency or any other issues.

[Awire9966]

I think you should also make it so you could change the color too!
like so:

 {
  "type": 5,
  "data": {
    "end_timestamp": 1650044987,
    "progress": 55.7,
   "color": "#4ef542"
  }
}

[sevenc-nanashi]

I think it will be good if there's text key, like: