On-reaction deletion of bot messages

[pomegranategurk]

Feature: Say when someone sends !gh source, the bot will send the github link like normal. But it will react to the message (The message the bot sent) with a (example) trash can. When the original sender of the message reacts to the message with the trash can, it will delete the github link.

[gustavwilliam]

We should definitely have this. However, I'd like it to be the default for the bot embeds, instead of being manually applied on every command. There should aslo be a setting to disable the reaction for that specific embed. I wouldn't mind using decorators or any other implementation that you could figure out.

[pomegranategurk]

(this is my first issue so i might be a little slow) Are you saying that only embeds have a deletion feature?

[gustavwilliam]

Nope. I think this should apply to all bot outputs, but we almost exclusively use embeds.

[pomegranategurk]

Cool. When you were talking about decorators are you saying that in the bots code say we had await channel.send we would put (example) @deletable before the message is sent?

[gustavwilliam]

Yep, that would be the idea. However, I'm not sure what the best way forward would be.

[vivekashok1221]

Yes, I think we exclusively use embeds for bot outputs. However, any output sent in a normal message form will anyway be short and will not take much screen space, and hence not warrant the need for it to be deleted in most cases.

[vivekashok1221]

I think #83 will handle the deletable embed issue. However, there has been no correspondence by the author on the issue lately 😠 .

[pomegranategurk]

Sorry for not responding, I had to eat lunch.
But I will look into ways to possibly implement this. And even we don’t have a need for it now, it might come in handy down the road.

[pomegranategurk]

I might not have time to implement this as classes are getting weird since a bunch of kids have gotten quarantined. (And I don't know what i'm doing, so I'd have to spend extra time googling.) Sorry for any inconvenience!