BetterDiscord-Animated-Status

• Installation
• Usage
• Settings
  • Timeout
  • The Editor
  • Emojis
    • Regular Emoji
    • Nitro Emoji
  • Examples

Installation

Install using the very convenient BetterDiscord installer
Download Animated_Status.plugin.js into the following directory
Mac: ~/Library/Preferences/BetterDiscord
Windows: %appdata%\BetterDiscord\plugins
Linux: ~/.config/BetterDiscord/plugins

Usage

Open Discord, go to Settings>Plugins, enable AnimatedStatus and click on Settings.
Enter the required information into the input fields and click the save button. Clicking done without saving will discard your settings.

Settings

Timeout

The value specifies the length of each animation step in milliseconds. Example: With a timeout of 2000, the following animation would take 4 seconds to complete, as 2 keyframes last 2 seconds each.

abc
def

To prevent the discord server from being spammed with requests, the minimum allowed timeout is hardcoded to be 2.9 seconds.
Logically, the animation timeout should be at least 2900. At best, it should be roughly 10000 milliseconds (10 seconds) for the animation to look smooth on other clients.
In the mobile app, the status isn't updated consistently, i.e. the list of server members is updated based on the users actions in the app. Don't be surprised, if the animation doesn't appear smooth, or skips frames.
^ According to @pintoso

The Editor

Each cell added with the +-button adds a new step to the status animation.
Clicking the --button will remove the last step.
An empty cell will unset your status temporarily. This was added due to a request, but is subject to change in the future.

In the latest version, the decision was made to remove the raw editor from the plugin. It was merely an unstable textual interface to the JSON config file.
You can still use the RAW-Mode, by clicking Open Plugins Folder inside the settings and editing AnimatedStatus.config.json. Do this at your own risk, you might break stuff.

Emojis

Regular Emoji

Use an emoji selector (Windows: Win+.).
Alternatively, use a unicode table and copy the emoji you'd like to have as your status.
The emoji_name field may not contain whitespace. Otherwise, the discord server will silently ignore your status request. Due to uncertainties about nitro emoji names, the plugin does currently not automatically remove whitespace.

Nitro Emoji

• Open a discord Chat, type \.
  
• Select the emoji you want to include in your status using the emoji picker.
  
• Notice that the message changed to <:emojiname:emojiid>. The values inside the brackets (emojiname and emojiid) are the values required for the status.
  
• Edit the settings accordingly
  

Examples

Some screenshots are sped up, so the ReadMe looks more appealing.

Clock

• Result:
  
• Emoji-Field:
  eval ['🕛','🕐','🕑','🕒','🕓','🕔','🕕','🕖','🕗','🕘','🕙','🕚'][((new Date()).getHours()%12)];

Clock And Text

• Result:
  
• Emoji-Field:
  eval ['🕛','🕐','🕑','🕒','🕓','🕔','🕕','🕖','🕗','🕘','🕙','🕚'][((new Date()).getHours()%12)];
• Text-Field:
  eval let fmt=t=>(t<10?'0':'')+t;let d=new Date();`${fmt(d.getHours())}:${fmt(d.getMinutes())}:${fmt(d.getSeconds())}`;

TODO (Ignore this)

• Use CSS grid layout for settings window
• Parameterize classes or automatically determine them