Repeat and Public Reminders

[diziara]

Now that we have a reminder management system added with the migration to slash commands, it would be really cool if we could add two extra features:

• The ability to have reminders repeat.
  • Could be in the form of every x unit of time, or once a day/week/month. Maybe add a minimum interval for repeats (ie daily for everyone except admins, and 6 hours for admins)
  • Would it be possible to set up for a day of the week and a time, ie: Sunday 0800 UTC or starting on a given date/time, ie 2022-03-01 0800 PST (also note the time zones, does Tim/Cecil respect time zones?)
  • The ability to specify the number of times to repeat, defaulting to until deleted (or until user leaves the server for personal reminders)
• The ability for Admins to create public reminders
  • These could be one time or repeating
  • The ability to specify a default time of day for repeating public reminders instead of just whenever the reminder is set
  • Have a default channel for the bot to post the reminder to, such as the announcement channel
  • The ability to override the reminder channel on a per reminder basis if needed. Can the slash commands have a selector that only shows the channels the bot has speaking permission in?

If the public reminder feature is added, it would be nice if the reminder list for Admins would show both the user's own reminders and the public reminders for the whole server that's a shared list among all admins. Maybe have a bold header to separate the two lists and something to say who set up the reminder in the shared server wide list, for example:

Personal
2 days:

test

6 days:

w0t w0t in the 🍑

2 days, repeating weekly:

The State of the Logs

Server
5 days, repeating monthly (set by Z):

BBQ hosted by Cilly & Veda

17 days (set by Amy):

Star Trek Picard starts airing again!

[diziara]

Would this be instead of reading an external calendar, or is there some way to make this work with that?

[diziara]

Since we changed how we're doing our log releases again (whenever they're ready, but the rss to Fedi is still during the release window we used before), we don't need this feature, but I'll leave my original message in case the use case still applies to something else.

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Another feature that would be helpful here: Log Release Window reminders.

A special reminder that is programmed for a given time of day to remind us of the window we try to release logs in. Instead of being a daily reminder, it could be triggered as needed. Once triggered, it would run until it detects either a notice in the rss feed, or a message posted to announcements, saying that a log is released, or it is manually turned off again. It would also have an optional flag to specify how many logs should release before it turns itself off, so if we have three logs ready for release, it would continue the reminders until it's seen three logs release.

Suggested command:
/logrelease

with the following flags:
howmany how many logs should release before it turns itself off, default value 1
feed url of rss feed to monitor for released logs
disable no value, turns off reminders
time what time of the day the release window starts, UTC?, remembers value across uses but defaults to the time of first trigger until value is set
message the reminder message

With no flags, turns on with default values unless no feed value is set, then prompts user to add feed url.

This should be an admin only command.