What’s new in Akashi 2?

1. Command Format

With Akashi 2, the way to write commands changed radically. You might recognize the new format from Discord’s slash commands. I am also currently looking into ways to make slash commands happen, although I can’t make any promises. The new way to do commands looks like this:

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$editchapter chapter: yankee 62 title: Yukiko-san is Fine ① ts: lukesaltweather

2. Chapter Selection

With Akashi 2, chapters are specified in a different manner. Instead of having 2 arguments for a chapter (chapter and project), the two have now merged into a single argument “chapter”. This works like so:

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$editchapter chapter: yankee 52 ts: lukesaltweather

3. Notes

Notes were historically not among the features most well treated. This changes with this update: Several new commands have been introduced to deal with notes, like adding, deleting or editing notes. For this, the bot now makes use of Discord’s new UI Elements.

Displaying notes has also been improved in the file-room messages. For more info see /Note

4. Addition of the track feature

A new command track has been added, which allows users to be updated by dm on updates on their tracked chapters and projects. With the track command, notifications for a specific chapter or project can be enabled. By using untrack, one can disable those notifications.

5. Changes to done

All the done commands have been merged into a single command $done. Done has an argument step, which allows you to specify the step you just completed.

6. Backups

Akashi now features a new backup functionality, which publishes a new database dump every hour into the command channel. This backup can then be used to restore a replacement database to the last backup state, in case things go south.

7. Behind the scenes

A lot of tidying up and refactoring has been done on existing code. Responses to commands are now more consistent across the commands. However, this is still a work in progress. With V2, code duplication has been immensely reduced. I hope this will lead to a more stable experience, as well as a faster development process.