Application Command Mentions

[ooliver1]

The current application command format is (in my opinion), annoying to use and excessively verbose.

The current format

</name:id> is not a great format for the following reasons:

1. Getting a command id to construct a mention is rather annoying as it is not as static as mentioning a user or channel, you have to find the command id in internal state. Having to find (or cache) the command ID every time you need a mention is unnecessary and annoying.
2. The name part completely ignores localisation. I have tested </colour name:927495024810295329> which has a localisation of color for en-US, yet switching to English US in the client still renders as colour in the command mention.

https://github.com/onerandomusername/monty-python/blob/86e3732da5ef845d6c7a6cb11ee5b04290acfbe2/monty/exts/info/colour.py#L109

Proposed format

In my opinion, a better format would be </name:app-id>. This still removes the ambiguity of multiple commands with the same name, but is also easier to "hardcode" and handle in source code as the application id does not change. This should still handle localisation in the client when the command is known to the client.

A more ideal format would be </command-id>, but the subcommand format is not ideal as they have the same command IDs, a design flaw not suitable to be mentioned in this post.

[elenakrittik]

There may be two commands with the same name (global and per-guild), so the first proposed format is not ideal either though i agree the current format is a bit annoying too.

[ooliver1]

Having that be possible in the first place seems like a complete flaw in the system too. For the end user, seeing two commands with the same name from the same application is confusing and completely unnecessary.