I just tried renaming @discobot locally and on a live site and doing so causes it to not function properly.
See the screen shot below to see what happens after I renamed it to @pizzabot:
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Renaming Discobot causes it to break. blake reported this issue and provided screenshots of the errors. tgxworld explained that the issue is due to caching, which requires a rebuild to resolve. However, blake found that even after a rebuild, the bot still doesn’t work properly in certain scenarios, such as responding to mentions in a topic or a PM to oneself. tgxworld has since fixed the issue with a commit to the Discourse repository.
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We’re caching it so it’ll take a rebuild for it to work.
I’ll look into maybe adding an AR callback to burst the cache when the username changes.
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Okay I can confirm that doing a rebuild after a rename causes it to work again. But unless I’m doing something wrong I still think there are issues after a rename.
If I send a PM directly to my renamed bot it works great. But if I respond in a topic or in a PM to just myself and mention the bot it doesn’t work:
Message to myself:
Responding in a topic:
PM to my renamed bot (this works)
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