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Fire's quote feature is one of the most popular and is very handy for sharing messages but unfortunately, it relied on Fire being in the server the message is from to quote it...
Wait, relied? Past tense?? Yup!
Through the magic of buying two of them User Apps, you can now save messages from servers without Fire to quote them in servers with Fire
First, you'll need to add Fire as a User App, which you can do by clicking the Add App button on Fire's profile or going to inv.wtf/bot then selecting Try it now
You can learn more about User Apps on Discord's "Using Apps on Discord" support article or further down in the changelog
To save a message, right click it then hover over Apps and select Save to Quote (Preview) or if you're on mobile, tap and hold on the message then tap Apps and finally tap Save to Quote (Preview)
Currently, this feature is in a "preview phase" as I wish to get feedback from users before expanding it to all messages
For the time being, you'll only be able to save messages in discoverable servers. This restriction will be removed based on feedback received
If you have any feedback regarding this feature, please share it either in the Fire Discord or via email
Issues with the feature should be reported here
Finally, the Spider-Verse short film "THE SPIDER WITHIN" is being released and it actually inspired the following addition to Fire 🕸️
Picture this: Someone just sent you a super cool YouTube video link but when you go to it, it's a premiere that you need to wait for. BORING!
Now, you can have Fire remind you that the premiere is happening with a choice of times ranging from the premiere time (I believe this is when the countdown on YouTube starts) or 5/15/30 minutes beforehand from right inside Discord
{% hint style="info" %} This also works for scheduled livestreams, but it will still show as a premiere in the dropdown as they can't be differentiated (plus premieres are more common anyways) {% endhint %}
As I was adjusting Fire's YouTube stuffs, I also made some improvements to the YouTube link filter
It will now support detecting & logging multiple videos & channels and will be quick at doing so since (for videos and certain channel links) it can fetch multiple at once from Google
It should also no longer randomly send blank YouTube filter embeds or randomly stop filtering
If today was Wednesday, Cosmo would have an idea
The /carbon command should no longer include random elements from the website in the image but if it happens again, report it in the Fire Discord
It will also attempt to use Prettier to format the input code
/modonly & /adminonly have moved!
They can now be found under the /restrict command and have been rewritten to be much simpler. They will now toggle the restriction (i.e. only mods or only admins can run commands) in the current channel or a category if one is specified
Setting it for a category will apply to any channels in the category at the time of running a command, so you can move channels in & out to add & remove the restriction
I also have plans to add other restriction types in the future 👀
The following are some changes that were made today which are too small for a dedicated section:
- Fixed reminders sometimes breaking when setting one for the minimum of 2 minutes
- Changed the duration too short string for reminders
- Added a new detection for Forge to Minecraft log scanning
- Prevented certain features from displaying in
/serverto try and avoid it breaking from being too long (looking at you Discord Townhall) - Moved admin (Fire admin, not Discord admin, so this doesn't matter for most of you) commands to slash commands and made them a group
- Added descriptions to some command arguments, will continue to add them for more as time goes on
You can now use Fire all across Discord without being limited to servers that have added it!
When you go to add Fire or Fire Beta, you'll be asked whether you want to add it to your apps or to a server. The former will allow you to use the commands in any server and allow the bot to send you DMs without you needing to share a server with DMs open, which can help with receiving reminders
There are some limitations on Fire's side, such as only being able to use commands that can also be used in DMs and some arguments not accepting input depending on the type (for example, you can't use the member argument in /color as it doesn't receive full data for the member's roles) but aside from that, it should function the same as it normally would
You can add Fire to your apps by clicking here or Fire Beta by clicking here
{% hint style="warn" %} Currently, responses will be seen only by you when using commands in servers with over 25 people. This is a limitation Discord has added, not Fire. {% endhint %}
Woah, first changelog of the year.
I probably forgot to add stuff here from earlier in the year but I can't be bothered to add them now. To make a long story short, my MacBook broke so I'm on my PC now and I am very slow at typing on a non-mac keyboard now
Anyways, onto the changes I just deployed at midnight
If you saw this in the changelog already, uh, no you didn't...
This command allows you to set your timezone stored in Fire for use with reminders, removing the need to specify one in the command or relying on UTC.
This command makes use of Discord's "autocomplete" feature to return a dynamic & filterable list of timezones. With nothing entered, it'll show a list of common timezones which will probably work for most people but if that's not enough, you can start typing to search through an extended list
{% hint style="warn" %} This does not cover the entire list of IANA timezones because I was too lazy to parse their database and it contains many duplicates (like Europe/London and Europe/Dublin which are both the same thing) but I've got what I believe will be enough to cover a large percentage of users. I've also got the Fire website on the lookout for unknown timezones, so if you visit the Fire website with one that is not covered by this list, it'll alert me to go add it!
You can also request that a timezone is added by sending a message in the #fire-help channel in the Fire Discord and I'll get it added as soon as I can.
{% endhint %}
This method allows for supporting daylight savings (which is why there's two for UTC+0 with the second handling daylight savings for western Europe, such as in the UK & Ireland)
{% hint style="warn" %} I've tried my best to ensure that setting a reminder for the date where the daylight savings swap occurs does not result in the wrong time but there may be some timezones where it fails to properly account for it
Thankfully, this is only an issue for two of 365/366 days in the year so I'd consider it a low priority issue. Timezones suck and daylight savings sucks more {% endhint %}
You can forget about forgetting things with this update because reminders just got a whole lot better!
You no longer need to use specific keywords to set the time for reminders. Fire can now understand more casual time inputs like "today at 9pm"
{% hint style="info" %} By default, it'll use UTC but you can either specify a timezone (e.g. PST or AEST) or an offset (e.g. UTC-5 or UTC+2) {% endhint %}
The time will (most of the time) be stripped from the actual reminder text too
The old method of having things like 1d for 1 day, 2mo for 2 months etc. is still supported but is considered deprecated and may be removed at a later date. Speaking of things being removed, this update brings the removal of message command support for the remind command, however, you can still add the --remind flag & a time to any message to set a reminder
To go along with the updates to parsing times, you can now specify your own time for snoozing reminders as well as the usual presets. This can be done by selecting the Specify other time option at the bottom of the list and entering your time in the modal.
{% hint style="warn" %} This will be based off of the time that the reminder was initially set for, rather than the current time, so "5 minutes from now" would snooze the reminder for 5 minutes from when it was initially set. I'll be keeping an eye on this to see if the behavior needs to be changed or not {% endhint %}
The context menu version of reminders has been upgraded too. It now allows you to pick a time from the message you've selected for the reminder, useful for getting reminded about events.
It'll still show the same presets as well as the Specify other time option when no time is found in the message.
Today's update is for the Minecraft log scanning feature. If you don't use this feature, you can ignore this changelog as it won't affect you.
{% hint style="info" %} Only the user who uploaded the log & moderators can submit a solution. This is to reduce the likelihood of spam/junk solutions being submitted {% endhint %}
Users can now submit solutions for logs they've uploaded if they've found a solution for their issue! Doing so requires providing an issue description and the solution which will submit it to a channel in the Fire Discord server with Geek and a handful of other knowledgable users who had access to the feature before it was available as a Premium perk.
Submitted solutions will be added to the bot if they can easily be identified via the log with a low chance of false positives.
{% hint style="danger" %} Submitting spam/junk solutions can get you blacklisted from the log scanning feature! Only submit a solution if you it is a valid fix for the issue you describe and is relevant to the log you're submitting the solution for {% endhint %}
Fire has the ability to detect certain scenarios and "block" these logs (not provide solutions/recommendations, the log can still be viewed)
This was previously limited to certain servers (well, some of it was, as I forgot to add checks to other aspects when making this feature available for Premium users)
A new method for detecting mods in Forge logs has been added to broaden the scenarios that Fire can suggest updates for
This only applies to debug logs (the debug.log file) as Forge only logs this information on the debug level.
A new method for detecting the mods in Fabric crash reports has been added to broaden the scenarios that Fire can suggest updates for
This applies to the separate crash report files & full logs that contain a crash report (though the mods list at the start of the log will be read first if valid & present)
Previously, a pretty specific character set was used which did not include numbers & underscores. Now, the regex \w\sÀ-ÖØ-öø-ÿ is used for macOS & Windows usernames.
Fabric crash reports should now always display the loader, loader version & Minecraft version correctly unlike before where it was not correctly parsed.
Previously, the messages returned when a log was blocked and the "Possible Solutions" & "Recommendations" strings were hardcoded meaning they would not be tied to the active language.
They've now been added to the language files and now all of log scanning should have proper translations (for when Fire gets new languages added, feel free to help out on Crowdin)
Fire will now show the correct content when quoting system messages (Discord's join messages, boost messages, pinned message to channel, renamed thread etc.) rather than the actual content of the message, which is usually just part of what is being displayed
Fire now supports Discord's display names, released alongside the new username system, and will display them in the /user command as well as certain other locations.
It will also now take them into account for autodehoist/autodecancer
Speaking of autodehoist/autodecancer, these two features have been improved as well as adding display name support. It should no longer change nicknames when they meet the restrictions of either feature and will better handle resetting nicknames when they are changed to meet the restrictions
If you have any questions or issues related to these two, let me know in the Fire Discord
You can now choose whether you pay monthly or annually, allowing greater flexibility for when you pay. It can be switched both at checkout or in the billing portal. Paying annually gives you a discount of €20 / 12 months for the price of 8
Not only can you choose when you pay for Premium, you can now choose a custom amount of servers that you get premium for! Additional servers unfortunately cannot be added while purchasing but can be added at any time from the billing portal. Each extra server is €1.50/month or €12/year, depending on whether your base subscription is monthly or annually.
The billing portal can be accessed via https://getfire.bot/user/premium or via https://inv.wtf/billing with just your Discord email
{% hint style="warning" %} Additional servers cannot be added during a trial period! If you're currently in the 7 day trial period, adding additional servers will end your trial, resulting in an immediate charge. {% endhint %}
Fire will now display usernames without the discriminator (#0000 part) for users with the new username system and will use the new method for getting default avatars, which includes a new pink avatar
Fire can now parse the list of mods at the start of Fabric logs and can even suggest updating for select mods
The mods it can check updates for are: Fabric API, Iris, Sodium, Lithium, Mod Menu, Craftify, Map Helpers
If you have any mods you'd like to see added (must be on Modrinth) then you can let me know in the Fire Discord
Quilt can now be detected by the bot with the version shown in the message but it can't check for updates yet
(it is technically the 26th while I am writing this and when some of this was deployed but it was made on the 25th)
It seems GitHub no longer resets tokens in gists so I've switched Fire to using a repository instead which has brought the feature back to life.
If you don't know what Fire's token scanning is, it checks messages for Discord tokens (both user & bot) and then uploads them to GitHub to be reset to prevent malicious use.
Discord has recently added preset reasons for banning users in the client so I've added them to the /ban command via autocomplete
As the last option says, you can still type a custom reason like you would before this change.
It's been a little while since something new (other than bug fixes) have been added to Fire but I am back with an awesome utility command for y'all!
I will hopefully start working on Fire as much as I used to soon.
Ever notice how threads don't keep the slowmode setting of the channel they were created in? Fire can now do that for you with the /slowmode-sync command!
This command will toggle it server-wide and only affects new threads, not existing ones.
Fire now has a Twitter community which you can join here
Ever wanted to use a command but not have it shown to everyone in the channel? Now you can use /incognito to make all command responses (slash commands only) ephemeral, meaning only you will see the response.
You know those awesome Twitter embeds with multiple images from a Tweet? Now you can make your own with the /multi-image-embed command!
You can do up to 8 images (4 images per embed) and can set the color of the embeds by giving a hex color code in the color argument
(Could you tell that I am very excited for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness? 😂)
I made an Instagram account for Fire! Why? I dunno, I just made it while making my own so that I could mention it in my bio.
You can follow it here and you can also follow me (Geek) on Instragram here.
I'll probably post screenshots of new features on there so there's an incentive for you to follow it I guess
You can now use /inviteinfo to view info about a server, similar to /server but for an invite code or discord.gg link!
This command will respond ephemerally (meaning only you can see it) to avoid it being used to advertise an invite
If Fire is in the server and it is on the same cluster as the current server (or cluster 0 if in DMs) then you will get all the information from /server alongside information about the invite
You can now customize the specific events that are logged in your moderation, members & action log channels using the /logging configure command!
This allows you to disable events you don't need logged making it easier to keep your logs clean and only containing what's important to your community.
After /filterexcl being disabled for months, I've finally rewritten it and re-enabled the command.
The command has a new home too! It is now usable via /linkfilter exclude (and two new context menu items, one for users & one for messages)
Toggling link filters has moved from /linkfilter -> /linkfilter toggle 
If you thought I was done with the new commands then boy do I have something for you!
You can now list exclusions without having to (un)exclude anyone or anything from the filter using /linkfilter list-exclude!
This was something small I had snuck in during the rewrite of /linkfilter exclude.
When running /user or the User context command on a bot, you may see some new buttons in the response...
The terms of service & privacy policy links are now buttons and I've also added a quick Add to Server button which functions the same as the one on the bot's profile, if the developer has set it up.
Fire will now check to see if the content of a message contains a codeblock with a language specified and will ignore it for log scanning if one is found.
This should help prevent false triggers of the system when code is posted.
I'm sure you're aware of everything happening with Russia and Ukraine by now so I want to take this time to ask that if you can, you can check the various links below to donate and help various charities supporting Ukraine with the horrible things happening there ❤🇺🇦
https://voices.org.ua/en/ https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ https://www.rsukraine.org/ https://armysos.com.ua/en/
The /anti command, which is used to toggle basic message filters, has been updated to use buttons instead of a command argument.
This makes it much easier to use and allows toggling filters with a single click
You can check out a demo of the new command here
If you have any suggestions for new message filters, you can let me know in the Fire Discord
Keeping with the trend of message filters, the /linkfilter command has been updated to use a dropdown instead of a command argument.
This allows you to easily toggle multiple filters at once and disable them all by selecting the Disable All Filters option.
You can check out a demo of the new command here
If you have any suggestions for other link filters, you can let me know in the Fire Discord
The Edit Tag button in the /tag info command will now open a modal for you to rename the tag and edit the content.
The /tag edit command will switch to using this modal in the future once more users have updated to newer versions of the Discord client
Another area of Fire now using modals is the /carbon commnd. You now only select the theme & font in the command and you will be presented with a modal to enter your code.
Issues with slash tags responding saying "Command not found" and snoozing reminders have been fixed.
Discord has released a new interaction response type, modals!
Unfortunately I was not part of the beta for this feature so this is the first time I've broken the tradition of having new features on day one. (They released on the 9th at midnight, I added them to Fire on the 10th at 8pm)
This is just the first place they'll be used in Fire with more coming soon.
Make sure you update your client so you can see the new modals!
You can now get exclusive discount codes when boosting the Fire Discord and/or subscribing to Geek, the developer of Fire on Twitch
To claim your discount code, you can use the /discount command in the Fire Discord to claim a discount code for premium ranging from 35% off up to 75% off!
You get 35% off by boosting, 50% off by subscribing and 75% off if you are both a booster and subscriber!
The discount code expires after 24 hours and you will only see it once so make sure to take note of it after running the command. The discount lasts until you leave the server or unboost/unsubscribe
Happy new year! 🎉
2021 was an amazing year for Fire and I hope 2022 will be even better.
I have a couple changes, including a very popular feature now being available to the general public with premium!
The current Fire website hasn't been worked on in quite a while and is pretty broken. This is because my good friend and amazing web developer, bruno has been working on an updated version.
I am happy to say that I've now made this ongoing rewrite accessible at getfire.bot for users to try out!
It may be buggy and is currently not great on mobile so if you encounter any bugs or have any questions/suggestions, please let me know in the #fire-help channel in the Fire Discord server.
As a little treat for helping test the new website, you can use code NEWYEAR22 to get 22% off Fire Premium (valid until January 31st at 23:59 UTC), which you can purchase through the website by logging in, clicking your avatar and selecting Premium in the dropdown menu. This new system for buying premium requires no manual intervention from me unlike the current one and allows you to select the server(s) you want premium in on the website!
I hope you enjoy the new website!
The /mcuuid and /skin commands have been moved to subcommands of /minecraft
To use these commands, it is now /minecraft uuid <ign> and /minecraft skin <ign> respectively.
Keeping to the block game theme, this highly popular feature seen in servers like Sk1er's Epic Server, ESSENTIAL Mod, Skytils & more is now available to the general public!
This feature requires premium as it is quite resource intensive with it potentially loading a couple megabytes worth of data into memory, running many regexes on it and then checking for known solutions and recommendations by matching strings.
It can be enabled with /minecraft log-scan and works with attachments, select pastebin/hastebin service links & sending the text directly.
If you have any questions about or find any issues with this feature, please let me know in the #premium-support channel in the Fire Discord server. You can also help improve this feature by providing sample logs and the matching solutions or recommendations in this channel.
It's been a while since the last changelog entry but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy...
I've mostly been working on improving Fire's slash commands in preparation of going slash only 👀
You can see all the changes in Fire Beta though do note that the beta is, well, still in beta so I would recommend not replacing Fire with the beta.
Anyways, time for the things you came here for, the production bot changes!
Discord has finally added a native muting solution and in true Fire fashion, it already has support for it!!!
Unfortunately, they are limited to 28 days in the future so for longer mutes, the Muted role (or whichever role you set with the /muterole command) will still be used.
This change also comes with the removal of the minimum time for mutes
N.B.: To make use of timeouts, Fire will need the Moderate Members permission so if it isn't using timeouts, make sure to check your muting for less than 28 days and it has the appropriate permission.
Quotes will now use your server profile (nickname & server avatar) rather than your global avatar and only your username.
Thanks to UserTeemu for submitting this change!
Fire's help command has been updated to be much more clean and concise rather than the large embed it used to be.
Now you can use the dropdown menu to select a command category rather than seeing them all at once.
Selecting a category will edit the message rather than sending a new one and it won't timeout so you can use the same embed and select a category weeks later and it'll show you the latest commands in that category.
You may see have seen some changes to Fire with regards to slash commands. These changes have a few prerequisites so you won't see it in all servers so if you don't see a difference, that's why.
- If you're still using message commands (and the server meets these prerequisites), you have a chance to be prompted with a message letting you know about Fire's switch to slash commands. This message will change depending on whether or not you have Fire's slash commands added to the server or not and if not, whether you can add them.
- The new and improved help command (which is available for everyone) will also change if you're still using message commands (and the server meets the prerequisites), any command that is only available via slash commands will be crossed out in the help command with a note telling you to switch, alongside the same message from above.
- The final change is with moderation commands, specifically the mod actions like warn, kick, ban etc. In some servers (mainly larger communities) you will see a warning attached to the responses of these commands letting you know that they will eventually be available via slash commands only.
All three changes will be enabled in more servers as time goes on to ensure everyone using Fire is aware of the switch. These changes are on Fire Beta too alongside the better slash commands.
I hope to have those changes merged sometime between the middle of and end of November, allowing time for these "upsells" to reach most users. allowing them to be ready for the change.
{% hint style="warning" %} These changes are currently only available on Fire Beta! You will need to invite the separate beta bot to experience them, https://inv.wtf/betabot {% endhint %}
Fire no longer relies on creating fake content to parse commands from slash commands!
Before it would take the arguments from the slash command and create the content that a user would've written as if it was a message command and parsed it from that.
This, alongside creating fake Message & Channel classes, is what allowed me to get slash commands working in Fire a couple hours after their release but since I am migrating to slash commands only, I thought I'd improve it a bit.
What does this mean for you?
- Quicker response times (you probably won't notice this though, it's only a minor improvement)
- Better error handling with ephemeral errors
- Allowing users to run slash commands in modonly/adminonly channels by forcing them to be ephemeral
This involved a large rewrite of command handling so there may be issues with it. If you encounter any, let me know in #fire-help and feel free to ping me.
I've also updated the warn command to be slash only on Fire Beta just like I did with mute & unmute. The rest of the moderation commands will come soon.
I have started working on making moderation slash commands better (since currently they suck) and have started with mute & unmute. These changes are on a separate branch (feature/moderation-slash-commands) and this branch will be auto deployed to Fire Beta
If you have any feedback, feel free to leave it in #fire-help
This won't be merged into master when complete, only when I am ready to flip the switch on making moderation commands slash commands only (the way mute/unmute are in Fire Beta now)
Got some more juicy slash command updates for y'all 👀
Following the Discord Developers Q&A earlier, I have implemented one of the features shown into Fire (Fire Beta only for now), autocomplete!
That's right, some commands will now automagically provide you with choices to choose from for running the command. One example being returning commands in the help, command & debug commands (currently shows ALL commands, will eventually be filtered to ones you can use/manage) or returning tags in the tag commands!
To use this amazing new feature, you must be on the latest version of the Discord app
If you encounter any issues with these, let me know in #fire-help and feel free to ping me for them.
Today I am pushing a lot of changes to Fire Beta that will soon be deployed to production. This changelog is going out early to allow users to provide feedback on these changes as they are quite major and I will not be surprised if there are users with negative opinions on the changes.
Edit - 20:12 UTC, August 24th - These changes have since been deployed to the main bot.
If you have feedback you want to give, you can join the Fire Discord and leave it in the #fire-help channel or email it to feedback@getfire.bot if you want to provide feedback privately
I have re-enabled the Discord experiment fetching in Aether and subsequently "fixed" showing guild experiments (this will also fix Advaith's Experiment Rollout site)
I have also fixed a potential bypass for invite filtering.
The steal command was disabled on August 17th following advice I had received from a Discord employee which you can see below or click here to view the messages in Discord Developers
After a bit of consideration, I have decided to rename the command rather than remove it due to how useful it can be f.ex for mobile users wanting to upload emojis
The command has been renamed from steal to emoji and now takes either an existing emoji, emoji URL, attachment URL or attached image when running the command.
Due to these changes, I had to swap the order of the arguments. The emoji name comes first and then the emoji/URL. I have tried my best to make it smart enough to figure out if you reversed them but it's not guaranteed to work. Please put the emoji name first and *then* the emoji.
The invite command no longer links to https://inv.wtf/bot but now has a button you can click to go directly to the invite.
This change was made to allow for using In-App OAuth which (last time I checked) is available to 50% of users on desktop
It just didn't make sense to have something that only works for message commands, as a slash command...
The autoquote command was used to toggle automatic quoting when a message link was found in a message.
This has now been replaced with a check for whether the quote command is disabled. Disabling the quote command will now disable auto quoting.
A few commands (such as close and delremind) have been updated to only use buttons rather than waiting for a message. You can no longer type close to close a ticket or yes to delete a reminder.
/tag list & /tag view <tag> have been added to replicate functionality of the base tag command with slash commands as you cannot use /tag like you can use $tag
This is the more controversial part of this update...
32 commands in Fire (approximately 29% of all commands) are no longer usable via messages. Attempting to use these commands will prompt you to use slash commands instead.
This change was made to encourage the use of slash commands amidst the upcoming message intent changes in April 2022. Fire will eventually be usable via slash commands only and this is the first step towards that.
The decision to go slash commands only was already made before the whole message intent announcement but was pushed forward because of it.
I understand that some of you may not like slash commands in their current state and I assure you there are improvements coming!
Today Discord has released Context Menu Commands that allow bots to add actions to right-click menus on both users and messages (more will come) and Fire has full (hacky, but full) support for them!
Once you're on the latest version of the Discord desktop app (no mobile support for now), you should be able to right click users to see a User option in the Apps menu which you can use to get information about the user you right clicked (it's the same as doing /user @TheUserYouClicked)
You can also right click messages and see two options, Google It and Remind Me with will run /google <the message content> and /remind <the message content> respectively, with a twist!
The Remind Me option will give you a dropdown with predefined times for setting a reminder rather than you entering a time since this is all I can really do without a text input component.
The $filterexcl command has been temporary disabled until I can get around to rewriting it as it seeming has many issues that were recently made apparent to me through its usage of incorrect strings. I have no clue when I will be able to rewrite it and re-enable it so I can't tell you when it will be back
All existing filter exclusions are still in effect. if anyone needs it to be changed, please join the Fire Discord and let me know in the #fire-help channel as I can manually edit it.
Fire is now using the i18n rewrite which means soon you should get more languages to choose from in the bot. I'd like to give a big thank you to everyone who has already contributed translations on Fire's Crowdin page (https://inv.wtf/i18n) and at the weekend I will be approving translations and adding them to the bot alongside giving flags and roles*
One small downside of the i18n rewrite being deployed now is that I had to remove the owo "language" for now as I haven't had a chance to rework that yet. Any user/server that had been using owo will see it once it's readded, your configs haven't been changed.
*Unfortunately I cannot give the 50% for Fire Premium yet as I can only do that once the new website has been launched
Fire is also using my own fork of Discord.JS which re-adds structures to prevent me having to basically rewrite Fire. This is not a permanent solution but it will do for now. I'm still trying to decide how I will approach rewriting Fire, whether it'll just be working around the lack of structures, using a different library or another full rewrite of Fire in a different language.
You can now snooze reminders! Too busy to handle a reminder the second you get it? Just click the blurple snooze button, pick a time from the dropdown and voilà, you will now be reminded at a later date!
You can check out a demo video here
You can now help translate Fire into new languages by heading to https://crowdin.com/project/fire-discord-bot (shortlink: https://inv.wtf/i18n)
This will help Fire be introduced to a wider range of communities. I've gone ahead and added ~30 languages to the list to be translated but if a language you want to translate isn't there, feel free to @ me and I'll get it added, same goes for if you have any questions e.g. how/where a certain string is used.
To reward translators, anyone who contributes a decent amount of translations will get 50% off Fire Premium for a year and the flag for the language(s) you translated will appear next to your badges in the user command (and maybe a role here with a secret channel but I'm still unsure on whether I want to add to the already long list of roles lol)
The code changes required to support the new i18n system haven't been merged yet so if one of y'all speedruns translating a language, it might be a week or two before it can be added to Fire so be patient
One last thing, some strings will be ones you can take from Discord (e.g. permissions) so whenever possible please use any available Discord translations.
With the limited release of threads for bot developers (a.k.a anyone with <=5 members in a server, one of which must be a bot), I thought I should mention that Fire fully supports threads! Anyone taking advantage of the early access will see new logging events for threads and full support for quotes in/from** threads.
Thread Log Events*:
- Thread Create
- Thread Delete
- Thread Members Update
- Thread Update
Running a message command in a thread Fire can see but is not a member off will cause Fire to try join the thread. If the thread is (somehow) archived or Fire is missing permissions (manage threads for private, view channels for public/announcement), it will not be able to join the thread and the command will not run. You will not receive any feedback if this happens.
It is recommended to use slash commands in threads.
(No idea what ticket threads are? Check out this video I made showing them)
As some of you may have heard, private threads have been locked behind a paywall (Boost Level 2 a.k.a $75/month) which has put that feature on pause for now. If this does not get reverted, one of two things will happen;
- The code for it just gets deleted
- It is available for select guilds, similar to the Minecraft logs feature
I really wanted to have this feature available for everyone on release but if it stays behind a paywall then I am unsure whether I want a public feature in Fire that requires boosts. Currently less than 50 of Fire's servers (roughly equivalent to 4% of the total servers it is in) have enough boosts to use private threads.
* Fire may need the Manage Threads permission to correctly log events from private threads, otherwise it may log creates/deletes as it is added/removed from a private thread
** Quoting from a thread will require you to be in the thread, even if it is a public/announcement thread.
Buttons are finally here!
Discord has just released the next addition to its interactions API, buttons! These allow bots to do a bunch of cool new things and in true Fire fashion, it already has support! (It's technically had support for weeks now lol)
You should start to see buttons replacing reactions in Fire, for example with any paginators. There's also buttons hanging around in a few commands to provide quick access to helpful features.
The best way to try out these brand spanking new clicky bois is with the $tictactoe command. Find a friend and have fun playing against them in this classic game.
If you can't see buttons, make sure you update your client!
Discord seems to have fully rolled out per channel voice regions, and Fire now has support for them! It will now log changes to channel regions and display all regions in the $guild command. It supports both normal voice channels and stage channels. Support for stage channels should also be available for voice channel roles.
Ever want to pin a message but you've hit Discord's limit of 50 pins in a channel? A good alternative to pins is a starboard, which you can now make with Fire!
With Fire you can setup a starboard channel, set the amount of stars required to be added to the starboard and premium users can even use a custom emoji!* Learn more about premium here.
Just run $starboard or /starboard to get started (get it? star-ted because star-board haha I'm hilarious)
*I am open to making custom starboard emojis available for non-premium users a little while after the release depending on some statistics and if it is requested enough.
Slash commands are finally out of beta! You should now see Fire's slash commands in all servers with the bot and new ones invited using https://inv.wtf/bot!
Almost all of Fire's commands are available for use with slash commands and should function the exact same as message commands (aside from some reaction workarounds)
Go ahead and hit / and start using the awesome slash commands Fire has to offer :D
Fire Beta is back online! 🎉
Unlike what I originally planned, it is running on the same VPS as the normal bot but has a separate database for everything and is starting from a completely clean slate.
It's prefix is beta and has the same slash commands as the main bot. This bot will be used to test new & potentially breaking features in a production-like environment so do not expect the bot to be stable (but what you can expect is pretty similar uptime to normal Fire as I'll be using Fire#7414 solely for local testing from now on and Fire Beta will stay running on the VPS)
If you would like to invite Fire Beta, you can now use https://inv.wtf/betabot to invite it.
Any issues with Fire Beta should not go to #fire-help but rather https://inv.wtf/betabugreport
Permission roles allow you to set permissions for a role in a channel, run a command (in the channel with the permissions) and have them copied to all other channels, including new ones!
This is useful for roles such as a "No External Emojis" role that denies Use External Emoji for those pesky users using NSFW emotes or a "Bad Memer" role that denies Attach Files and Embed Links for those who can't help but use their image perms to be disruptive.
Currently permission roles are limited to 1 permission role for non-premium servers and unlimited for premium servers, which you can learn more about here
Over the past little while I've been making a bunch of behind the scenes changes to improve existing features, reliability of the bot itself and working on the website rewrite (alongside amazing web devs, Bruno and Nystrex who have done pretty much all of the frontend work) which will include migration from Patreon to Stripe for Fire Premium.
There's still a lot more behind the scenes changes coming which will make Fire even better than it already is (yes, it is indeed possible to make the best bot better 😂)
Yup, that's right, I have made Fire replace advaith's Slashtags bot!
I have enabled an experiment in a small number of guilds that gives access to the tag slash command, allowing you to toggle slash command tags for that guild (and by providing a boolean, e.g.$tag slash true you can change whether or not the tags will be ephemeral)
If your guild doesn't have access to slash command tags, don't fret, it will eventually be available to all guilds. I am doing a slow rollout because there's strict ratelimits on slash command stuff so I want to make sure hundreds of guilds aren't toggling slash command tags in a short period of time.
If you'd like access, join the Fire Discord and let me know why you think your guild should have it in the #fire-help channel :)
Sometimes when creating a ticket, if a user managed to run the command multiple times in quick succession, they could open more tickets than the server's limit (especially if said limit is 1), causing one or more of those channels to not be considered tickets, meaning $close would not work.
Creating tickets now uses a semaphore to ensure it is only being ran *insert server ticket limit* times or less at once, meaning these issues should cease to exist!
You can now have multiple prefixes! That's it, that's the changelog :D
"Ok, hear me out. Imagine the avatar command, but instead of showing a users avatar, it shows the guild's icon" thus the icon command was born! Wow, isn't that a great story?
You can now temporarily ban a user from your server. It's basically the mute command now except banning instead of muting (especially since the temp ban code is copied from mute lol)
e.g. $ban advaith#9121 too much blob 1 day
Sometimes the user command would say someone is banned on KSoft.Si when they're not. It no longer does this. Epic.
The guild command can now display info for public guilds, such as discoverable guilds or ones that have made their guild public with the $public command.
With the $anti command, you can now enable some basic message filters such as deleting messages with @everyone or @here if the user doesn't have permission to use them, messages from selfbots (users sending an embed) or "spoiler abuse"
You can now set a role that will be "alerted" (pinged) when a new ticket is opened, allowing you to f.ex. notify the staff team of a new ticket so they can have super fast response times.
You can set this the same way you set the rest of the ticket config options, $ticket alert <role>
Another ticket related addition, any ticket where the author leaves after not saying anything at all in the ticket will now be closed automatically so people who open a ticket for no reason then leave won't waste your time.
Bots will now be ignored for join/leave messages (logs are unaffected) as they do not deserve to be welcomed smh
You can now ignore channels from logging with the $logignore command so message edits/deletes, purges, link filter triggers etc. will not be logged from the channels you specify.
No more accidental leaks from your secret channel where you post only the spiciest of memes when you accidentally edited that one message
I'll let you figure this one out yourself. Long awaited suggestion from Noctember#6660 ;)
Previously locked to guilds with an experiment, I've just flipped the non-existent switch that enables both role update & nickname update logging for all guilds with member logs enabled.
This may cause issues so if needed, the non-existent switch may be flipped again to disable them to prevent further issues.
Guilds with over 1,000 are no longer able to set multiple log types in the same channel. This is to prevent logs getting clogged up in large guilds due to the amount of logs being sent as Fire can only send 5 messages before it needs to wait a bit until it can send again.
Attempting to set multiple log types in a single channel will return an error and existing large guilds with multiple log types in one channel will have those log types automatically disabled and a message sent in the log channel to explain why.
Discord has recently released the ability to use slash commands in a bot's DMs and Fire now fully supports them. I tried to prepare for this when it was announced but it still broke when it was released.
If you spot any bugs with slash commands in DMs, feel free to open an issue on Fire's GitHub repo, https://inv.wtf/github
You can now "plonk" users from the bot in your guild! Just run $plonk @User#1337 to prevent a user from running Fire commands. Run $unplonk @User#1337 to allow them to use commands again.
Only took over a year but I have finally rewritten Fire's reaction roles and it is better than ever!
You can check out the demo video I recorded during development here which basically showcases the feature as a whole in a short 30 second clip.
This feature is premium only! You can learn more about premium here.
That's right, you can now use your favorite bot to generate beautiful images of your code using carbon.now.sh!
This feature was inspired by Ravy's bot Aero but is better because it has transparency and the ability to switch theme & font with flags
e.g. $carbon console.log("Hello, World") --theme nord --font firacode
Due to limitations with Akairo, the command framework Fire uses, you can't have spaces in the flag values (but it fuzzy matches so it's fine)
You can now set ticket descriptions! These will be shown in the embed sent in new ticket channels, allowing you to give a message to a user (e.g. telling them what info they should provide)
Use $ticket description <description> to set the description or $ticket description to reset it
You can now use Fire to send embeds since users cannot. This command works by taking an embed object from a haste service (hastebin.com, hasteb.in or hst.sh) and send it to the current channel or any other channel!
e.g. $embed https://hst.sh/kaxesebivo.json #testing
You must have Embed Links permission to run the command and Manage Messages in a channel to send to it from a different channel.
That's right, it only took a year since it was suggested but Fire now has a color command!
Don't worry, if your language is set to en-GB it will say colour.
Simply run $color [<color>] to quickly convert colors to different types (hex, rgb, hsl or hsv) and get a preview of that color!
If you don't provide a color, a random one will be chosen.
Okay, not literally, but Fire has been fully rewritten in TypeScript (the TypeScript logo is blue haha get it)
This is a MAJOR change for Fire as every aspect has been rewritten and improved. I unfortunately can't go over every single change or improvement but I'll list a few highlights below
Fire will now use replies when sending error message, the ping command and also when using tags (if you reply to a message with a tag, Fire will reply to that message with the tag content, mentioning the user. Works best with the dtag alias)
You can now edit tags and give them aliases! This is long overdue 😂
With autodecancer enabled, Fire will now attempt to normalise a users name if it is "cancerous" (man I hate this terminology) which means no more John Doe 1337 for 𝖙𝖍𝖚𝖌 𝖑𝖎𝖋𝖊#1337 over there, instead they will be nicknamed thug life
Members will also be checked for hoisted/cancerous names on message and member update meaning less hoisted/cancerous users.
Discord's long promised slash commands have finally released and Fire Beta supported them within 48 hours of release for 50 commands (which is sadly the limit) and since the rewrite has been deployed, normal Fire supports them too!
You will need to grant Fire the applications.commands scope to access slash commands, which you can do by heading to inv.wtf/bot and reinviting Fire with the scope.
Autorole is no longer a premium feature and is available to all servers with Fire! I've also added a bit of spice to the command in the rewrite, allowing you to set a bot autorole as well as normal autorole.
This also supports Discord's membership screening feature meaning users will not get the role before passing screening.
Moderation has been overhauled in the rewrite due to the flexibility of discord.js allowing me to have custom guild, member & user classes. This allows for cleaner code and easily allows me to add more moderation features.
Moderator IDs are now stored so you can see who gave Billy that warning for posting a meme in general. Speaking of warnings, they will also display warning count in the success message,
e.g. Geek#8405 was warned for the 69th time
Member join/leave logging is no longer included in moderation logs. You can set a dedicated channel for member related logging with $log member #channel
Reminders have been improved with better time parsing and the ability to repeat reminders with a "step".
It should no longer say you set a reminder for "59 minutes, 59.294 seconds from now" when you set a reminder for an hour and the same has been done for DMs (although DMs are a bit more finicky)
Repeating reminders with a step allows you to make multiple reminders with additional reminders on an interval.
Lots of improvements, including the google command!
These improvements include
- Re-use browser & context
- Moving Playwright code to Aether, allowing clusters to share the same browser & context instances
- Add zlib compression to the Aether websocket, since the HTML data that Fire sends to Aether from the Google Assistant API is massive
Fire is now much more scalable through the magic of Aether! Aether was originally designed by Ravy to handle Aero's shards but I've gone ahead and made my own fork of it, rewritten it in TypeScript, added a Rest API, statistics tracking with Grafana & Influx, realtime statistics for the Fire website, Playwright (as mentioned above), reminders and more.
Aether allows Fire to have multiple independent instances that link together through it via a websocket, allowing me to quickly scale Fire up if needs be. This allows each cluster to communicate with Aether and each other, powering features such as the Google command, reminders, user settings, premium, command, module, listener & inhibitor syncing and more.
Fire's status page now shows system metrics! These include both average rest & gateway latency across all clusters.
Fire's website has gotten a few updates to accommodate changes in the rewrite, such as cluster support on the stats page, realtime stats updates, and better routing meaning the page no longer refreshes when navigating to a different page and now has a seamless transition.
Somewhat major update, concerning those who use logging, autodecancer & autodehoist,
I have deployed an update that affects how members are cached, causing other features to be affected too, some in a positive way and others negatively.
Due to these changes, I have had to remove role update logging & nickname update logging. These relied on members being cached due to Discord not providing the previous state. They may return in the rewrite but it is unclear at the moment.
A positive side affect to this change is that I've made autodecancer/autodehoist function similarly to the rewrite where members don't need to be cached for them to be decancered/dehoisted. It will also attempt to run the checks on each message too.
If you encounter issues related to autodecancer or autodehoist, please let me know. I have done some testing but my one-user test may not account for all scenarios.
Rather than using JavaScript/meta tags to power redirects for Vanity URLs, it will now return status code 302 in most cases (which should also make them faster as there's no body to load)
The only time the old HTML response will be returned is if a request is coming from Discord/Twitter/Slack so they can embed the link with the custom embed. If there's a site that embeds links using OGP tags that isn't one of the 3 listed and you would like inv.wtf URLs to embed there, let me know what the site is in the Fire Discord (and if you know the user agent they use to send requests that'll help get it changed quickly)
Sites that aren't one of the 3 listed above will still show an embed if they follow redirects but it'll be Discord's own embed. If you encounter any issues with inv.wtf please let me know in the Fire Discord too as I also changed a bit of error handling because the old error handling code looked like I was drunk while writing it o_O
Moderation Case IDs are no longer numbers and now use https://github.com/puyuan/py-nanoid since the numbers have started showing letters and symbols (oops)
There's now a search bar on Fire's commands page :D
No more endlessly clicking through categories to find what you want, just type a command name and you'll be greeted with matching commands, their description, usage and aliases.
If you've encountered an issue with Vanity URLs stating an error similar to 'bool' object has no attribute 'copy' it has now been fixed, sorry for any inconvenience
The debug command can now show extra information for the $mute command. You can see an example below. Any users/roles listed for bypassing mutes means they have been explicitly granted Send Messages in the current channel.
Due to how Discord's permissions work, even if many roles have a permission denied, as long as one role has it allowed then they will always have that permission, meaning allowing a role Send Messages will cause that role to bypass mutes.
When editing a command message where both the old and new commands used paginators, Fire will now forget the old paginator instead of switching between the two upon reacting.
The $info guild command has gotten a redesign! It now looks nicer and has many more aliases (guild, infoguild, info guild, guildinfo, infoserver, serverinfo)
You can now choose how many days worth of messages to delete when banning a user with the --delete flag (-d works too)
Example: $ban Aktimoose using deprecated regions --delete 1 to delete messages from the past day (max is 7 due to discord limits)
If the flag is omitted then no messages will be deleted.
shorteners, enable with $linkfilter shorteners, deletes common short links, e.g. bit.ly
Moderation commands no longer respond if --silent is used
$badname - Change the name used for auto dehoist/decancer. This will not change existing nicknames! $autodecancer - Toggle renaming those with "cancerous" (non-ascii) names. This will not rename existing users!
$autodehoist - Toggle renaming those with hoisted names. This will not rename existing users!
Fire should no longer log role removals for deleted roles. It may still log a few before the role is actually deleted but this should prevent logs being spammed in large guilds from removing a role that everyone has
$reminders - You can now see your reminders. This really should've been a thing from the start
$delremind - You can now delete your reminders. This really should've been a thing from the start (see screenshot for more info on how to delete a reminder)
The mute command will now delete mutes before attempting to removing the role, meaning tons of mutes don't build up in my database and people don't get muted if/when they rejoin (don't you just love people who leave after getting muted) even though their mute expired
The $info user command has gotten a redesign! It now looks nicer and has many more aliases (user, infouser, info user, userinfo, whois, u)
$antispam <chance of spam>
Toggles ChatWatch spam prevention. If messages have a chance of spam greater than or equal to the chance provided in this command, they will be deleted.
THIS HAS BEEN ENABLED BY DEFAULT WITH AN 80% CHANCE OF SPAM FOR GUILDS WITH AT LEAST 1000 MEMBERS!
$slowmode <delay> [<channel/category>] - Set slowmode in the current channel, another channel or a category
$ghstatus - Check GitHub's status
$cfstatus - Check Cloudflare's status
$hyperium, $fetchchannel, $fetchactivity
Fire will now automatically set it's status on https://status.gaminggeek.dev/ depending on it's ping.
If you do $debug <command> Fire will go through some common things that may prevent a command from running (global checks, permissions, whether the command is enabled or not) and give a list of issues if any are found. This should help with figuring out small issues so if some command stops working, use the debug command and if the debug command stops working, seek immediate help here
To ensure that people cannot scrape the invites from the page, you will now have to solve a captcha to get redirected to the invite. This is to prevent abuse of the page and to ensure your server is protected from potential spam bots joining.
For the past few months, Vanity URLs have been accessible through many domains, with the 2 main ones being oh-my-god.wtf and inv.wtf. The latter however was only available to premium guilds and also had support for custom redirects. Starting from today, inv.wtf is the only main domain for Vanity URLs and will eventually be the only domain they're accessible from
This change means that even non-premium guilds will be able to use this domain for their Vanity URLs (redirects are still premium) and the other 5 domains will eventually be phased out and no longer function.
This is for better consistency with Vanity URLs, less hassle for other bots to be keeping up with what domains Fire vanity URLs are accessible from to filter them if they choose to do so and finally as a cost saving measure. I don't have a job and the only way for me to keep Fire up and running pretty much 24/7 is the wonderful people who have supported Fire by purchasing premium <3
I'd like to thank you all for using Fire and hope you enjoy these new updates :D
First we have bug fixes, my favorite. --remind now actually works which is nice and (not that it matters to any of you) my logs are no longer spammed with errors when starting Fire :D
Anyways, actual cool things now. Fire has been able to run commands when you edit your message for a long time now, but as of about an hour ago during the maintenance, Fire will now edit the response from the old command too! This won't work for any commands that use files due to a Discord limitation
If you have suggestions for Fire, feel free to use the $suggest command to let me know about 'em. I will start working on suggestions in the next few days as I've sorta been neglecting them
You can now set the muted role Fire uses when muting users! Just use the command $muterole [<role>] to set it.
If you don't provide a role, Fire will reset it and just use a role called "Muted" and if it's not found, it will create one.
Important update for those who make use of Fire's music feature!
Due to many reasons (Lavalink being a piece of trash, YouTube blocking Fire's IP many times, Lavalink being a piece of trash), I ave removed Fire's music feature completely. This will free up a lot of resources on Fire's vps as Lavalink is quite resource intensive, with ram usage in excess of 1.5GB at times, which will allow for more expansion.
Fire was never made to be a music oriented bot and music was always a low priority. I have not changed anything related to music since January 10th as Fire's music has been considered "deprecated" since then.
If you used Fire's music feature, I'd recommend switching to Groovy (https://groovy.bot/) for all your music needs (and keep Fire for it's other features of course). As Groovy is a bot specifically for music playback, you will have a better experience with it.
Thank you for using Fire and I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this removal.
hi i did the same as quotes but for snipe and esnipe and you can only snipe a message once now. once it's sniped, it get's yoinked from fire's memory ok thanks bye
such a professional update changelog thing
oh hey a new fea- wait a minute, this isn't new!
That's right, I have rewritten an existing feature and made it cooler :D Fire's quote command (and auto quoting, $quote auto to enable) now has it's own file and a new addition.
If in a channel where Fire has Manage Webhooks permission, it will make use of this to make quotes cooler. It will show kinda like the user themselves repeated their message, except there's a BOT tag because it's a webhook. It will use an existing webhook or create one if none exist in that channel. Tip: If you want to go back to the old quotes, just remove Manage Webhooks from Fire (and Administrator if applicable) and it will be like nothing changed!
I hope you enjoy this new addition to quoting because I personally love it. If you encounter any issues, please let me know in #help or if you have a suggestion, use the $suggest command
Today I am releasing Fire's newest feature, tickets! With this new feature, members of your Discord can create tickets for whatever reason they would need it. For tickets to be created, they must be enabled which can be done by setting a category using $tickets category. You can see all the configuration commands for tickets by using $tickets.
The main commands for tickets are;
$new - Opens a ticket
$add <user> - Adds a user to the current ticket
$remove <user> - Removes a user from the current ticket
$close - Closes the current ticket
Along with this new feature, we say goodbye to an old one. Fire's muted chat is now removed and Fire will no longer add users to it or set permissions for read messages to false in other channels. To reconfigure Fire's permissions for the Muted role, just delete it and mute someone to recreate it. This was a feature that quite a few people did not like and many did not even use so I made the decision to remove it. I don't see it ever coming back so if you liked it then I apologize for the inconvenience.
The tempmention command has been removed. This is due to a recent Discord update that makes it kinda pointless. If you are unaware about the new update, anyone with Mention Everyone permission can now mention all roles without needing to change the mention toggle. If you don't see this, make sure to update your client.
Fire will now find any image link in the message you are quoting, remove it from the message content and set it as the embed's image so that you don't need to click the link to see it
- Merged parts of the rewrite into master
{% hint style="info" %} This isn't too big of an update for your average Joe, but in terms of the code base, the "core" is much cleaner an allows for more modularity with commands, events and core modules such as Chatwatch {% endhint %}
Fire now has reminders!
Fire can give you a reminder for anything and everything right in your DMs. There's two ways to set a reminder with Fire, a command or a flag.
With the command, you just do $remind <your reminder here> <time> e.g.$remind fix logging in 1 hour
The flag is an easy way to set a reminder by just adding --remind to your message. For example, I can do I need to clean my room --remind 1 hour and Fire will remind me to clean my room in an hour.
My favorite part of reminders is the support for message URLs. Place a message URL in your reminder and when it's time to be reminded, Fire will quote these messages along with your reminder.
Hope you all enjoy this feature as I had a lot of fun making it :)
{% hint style="info" %}
Fire uses regex to find the time and replace it when giving you your reminder. It will attempt to catch phrases like in 1 hour or that <reminder> but sometimes it will do an oopsie and not get your time right. It's best to stick to using 1 day 2 hours 3 minutes 4 seconds as the format.
{% endhint %}