User-specific channel invites

[erkinalp]

Why is this feature needed

Many bots with voice capabilities currently use the following flow:

1. A human joins a voice chat
2. The human that joined the voice chat issues a bot-specific command to ask the bot to join the voice chat that the human user is also in
3. Bot determines who invoked the command and the invoker's voice status
4. Bot joins the voice channel of the invoking human

With user-specific channel invites, we would directly invite the bot to the desired VC, without the bot learning the human user's voice state. This could also be extended to guild and DM invites.

Possible API design

Invoker-side

POST /users/{user.id}/invites/ to create an invite with the desired channel and expiration

Receiver-side

Both REST and WebSocket alternatives could be provided:

WebSocket

• INVITE_USER event, which would be fired upon the creation of a user-specific invite

REST

• GET /users/@me/invites to list the unused user-specific invites
• POST /users/@me/invites/{invite.id} to use the user-specific invite

[NovaFox161]

Just make a command that accepts a voice channel argument. There's literally no need for any of this complexity and is already possible in a much simpler form (Activities bot literally does exactly this)