Allow running slash commands at the top-level in Forum channels

[Ernest314]

My personal use case is for an LFG bot, in order to create new groups, but there are definitely tons of interesting use cases (e.g. moderation, search). I think this is a compelling feature to add because (at least superficially) it appears not to require any modifications to the backend--the only thing really preventing it from being possible already is the lack of an entry point on the UI.

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A possible solution could be to use something like the current "+" button.

This could go somewhere in the "post" textbox, similar to how it's positioned in the usual message textbox.

Alternatively, it could be placed next to the "attachment" button when composing a new post.

(Ultimately these are just implementation details of the feature, though.)

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Edit: to bring up my clarifications from the comments--

• I don't think you can use context commands on channels (threads)? I imagine implementing that would be more work than simply allowing an entry point to the (also more powerful) regular slash commands, although obviously any Discord developers would know the real answer to this.
• Context commands have a lot more limitations than regular commands:
  • they cannot accept arguments
  • they're limited to only 5 commands per app
  • they cannot be organized with subcommands/subcommand groups
• Semantically, it might not always make sense to use a context command for something that may not be relevant to any thread (e.g. starting a new one). It would be more intuitive to the user if the flow of using regular commands was unified across forum channels.

Obviously, the work it takes to implement this suggestion could outweigh all of these considerations--whether or not it's worth it is up to the developers. I hope I've made a decent case though!

[devsnek]

This is why we have context commands :)

[Ernest314]

You can't pass arguments to those though ._.

[kingmigdor]

use modals

[MinnDevelopment]

Back to the good old days of manually parsing strings

[Ernest314]

use modals

also... I don't think context commands for channels are a thing, so you can't even use a context command on a thread? (I have no way to test this though)

It also doesn't really make sense (semantically) to e.g. create a new post through a context command on an existing post?

(I'm not saying there aren't ways to work around this, I'm just saying that I think the feature is worth adding! This comment section currently is just "here's a way to emulate your desired behavior", which is missing the point of the feature request, I think.)