discord.js - Imagine an app•8mo ago

Bot status occasionally reverts back to initial status from the status set in ClientReady

Im using DJS with sharding. I initialize the client with a status of "Starting" and then in ClientReady I basically set the status to something else ("bla" in this case).

const client = new DiscordClient({
    intents: [
        GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
        GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
        GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages,
    ],
    presence: {
        status: "dnd",
        activities: [{ name: "Starting...", type: ActivityType.Playing }],
    },
});

client.on(Events.ClientReady, async() => {
    client.user?.setActivity({ name: `Bla`, type: ActivityType.Playing });
});

// login and stuff

const client = new DiscordClient({
    intents: [
        GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
        GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
        GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages,
    ],
    presence: {
        status: "dnd",
        activities: [{ name: "Starting...", type: ActivityType.Playing }],
    },
});

client.on(Events.ClientReady, async() => {
    client.user?.setActivity({ name: `Bla`, type: ActivityType.Playing });
});

// login and stuff

so pretty straight forward stuff. However: if the bot is unattended for some time without restart, sometimes the activity resets back to "Starting..." and remains stuck there. I assume that happens when some connection times our for a bit (shard?) but I'm not sure. Is there a way to "catch" that and set the status again? Im not sure if its a sharding issue but would Events.ShardResume or something work? Is that a common issue? --- npm list discord.js: discord.js@14.14.1 node -v: v21.0.0

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d.js toolkit•8mo ago

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d.js docs•8mo ago

:interface: ClientOptions Options for a client.

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Shadow•7mo ago

Nah I don't think an interval is a good solution. Since somehow the client options are re-set under a certain condition without calling ClientReady again, I assume the shard is re-initialized. Which means I should be able to set the status again by catching the ShardResume event. but since I can't really test that I thought I'd ask here first the presence isn't static. ill give shardReady a try. whats the difference between that and shardResume? alright, I see. thanks! :) so, shardReady doesnt really work in my case because it fires with ClientReady which is why I do it with a preiodic check like @gwapes suggested now

const client = new DiscordClient({
    intents: [
        GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
        GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
        GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages,
    ],
    presence: {
        status: "dnd",
        activities: [{ name: "Starting...", type: ActivityType.Playing }],
    },
});

// ...

client.on(Events.ClientReady, async() => {
    const guildCount = await client.guilds.fetch().then(guilds => guilds.size);

    await registerCommands(client)
        .then(() => client.on(Events.InteractionCreate, async interaction => interactionCreateHandler(interaction)));

    client.user?.setActivity({ name: `Working on ${guildCount} servers!`, type: ActivityType.Playing });

    let lastGuildCount = guildCount;
    setInterval(async() => {
        const newGuildCount = await client.guilds.fetch().then(guilds => guilds.size);
        const statusHasReset = client.user?.presence.activities[0].name === "Starting...";

        if (newGuildCount !== lastGuildCount || statusHasReset){
            lastGuildCount = newGuildCount;
            client.user?.setActivity({ name: `Working on ${newGuildCount} servers!`, type: ActivityType.Playing });
        }
    }, 5 * 60 * 1000);

    client.user?.setStatus("online");
});

const client = new DiscordClient({
    intents: [
        GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
        GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
        GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages,
    ],
    presence: {
        status: "dnd",
        activities: [{ name: "Starting...", type: ActivityType.Playing }],
    },
});

// ...

client.on(Events.ClientReady, async() => {
    const guildCount = await client.guilds.fetch().then(guilds => guilds.size);

    await registerCommands(client)
        .then(() => client.on(Events.InteractionCreate, async interaction => interactionCreateHandler(interaction)));

    client.user?.setActivity({ name: `Working on ${guildCount} servers!`, type: ActivityType.Playing });

    let lastGuildCount = guildCount;
    setInterval(async() => {
        const newGuildCount = await client.guilds.fetch().then(guilds => guilds.size);
        const statusHasReset = client.user?.presence.activities[0].name === "Starting...";

        if (newGuildCount !== lastGuildCount || statusHasReset){
            lastGuildCount = newGuildCount;
            client.user?.setActivity({ name: `Working on ${newGuildCount} servers!`, type: ActivityType.Playing });
        }
    }, 5 * 60 * 1000);

    client.user?.setStatus("online");
});

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Bot status occasionally reverts back to initial status from the status set in ClientReady