I’m trying to use Discobot on my own forum. For some bizarre reason, I never got the Greetings! message from Discobot, and when I mention or message it, I don’t get a response. The Admin got the message and Discobot would respond to him. Do I need special permissions to communicate with Discobot? I tried running commands like @discobot display help (Mentioning it was intentional here) but I got no response on my own site.

In your preferences → interface you can change this. After that it should work fine.

See??? Nothing! What happened? Edit: I never got the intro message here, either. I did get it on the Ubuntu forums, though.

Try that in a private message :). It may be a bit shy in public :wink:

No… it didn’t work in a PM on my forum and it doesn’t appear to work here. It should pop up almost instantly, right?

I still get no response :frowning: I’ve tried help and starting both tutorials… nothing! I also don’t know why I haven’t seen the greeting message. Is there an issue with my accounts?

That’s odd. Can you please check one more time? You might have moved it to your archive folder. Can you try the following in a PM with discobot as a participant: Start a PM and mention: @discobot start advanced tutorial See if you then get a response. Works fine for me too.

Actually, you can just mention it here and it will automatically message you with the advanced tutorial. [image] @discobot display help

I currently know how to do the following things: @discobot start {name-of-tutorial} Starts an interactive tutorial just for you, in a personal message. {name-of-tutorial} can be one of: tutorial, advanced tutorial. @discobot roll 2d6 :game_die: 3, 6 @discobot quote :left_speech_bubble: In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. — Carl Jung @discobot fortune :crystal_ball: You may rely on it

Works again! Thank you , mate! :eyes:

I signed up here a few days ago and I never got the message… If you read the first post, I mentioned discobot and I got nothing. I also tried PMing discobot and I never got anything. This is a problem here and on my own forums, but not on the Ubuntu forums…

Discobot can't communicate with me

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CStafford14 (Christopher Stafford) October 13, 2020, 10:46am 16

I didn’t see that option the first time. After unchecking it, I can now message discobot.

@discobot display help works

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