How the project came to be ?
That is actually pretty funny because i never intended to start working on public bot, I just wanted to test if i could script a bot with some basic commands like the famous ping pong response. But just as a test because i was curious. After few days testing around making some little response commands i kind of enjoyed the building part, then to see the results. So i started to do a little bit more work on it.
Eventually people contacted me to request the invite link of the bot so they could use it also. That was the moment i decided to spend a lot more time on this by making it a actual project.
There are many bots with many great features but if you want to add all the features your members want to have, often you need more then 10 bots on your server. That can cause annoyance with your members and also deliver a dilemma as every bot has a prefix in order to use all commands. My goal is to create 1 bot that does packs all those features together in 1 package, 1 bot, 1 prefix.
I want to create the fastest, the most stable, the most entertaining and helpful bot out there on the market. With a response time of around 50 to 250 milliseconds and a up-time of almost 98% i am very glad that i already start to meet my first milestones.
Most bots are also not optimized for Discord Phone users. The menus and text look fine on the PC but, because your phone has a smaller screen it becomes a chaos therefor very hard to read and use it.
I want to counter all these problems and it's going very well for my right now. As Curiosity offers a very simple interactive menu that works like a book. This enables me to provide a lot of info in small windows that you can scroll through, instead of bombarding your private mail. Below i want to show some of the key features Curiosity has to offer, and some insides on what the future will bring to us.
First a Shoutout !!!
I want to thank @fyrstikken for his support to The Curiosity Project.
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Right now we use a different menu but i am in the process of building a small interactive menu that is phone friendly and easy to use. Instead of giving you a large field with to much info to read, I present you a small window with limited information per page. All pages are testing on my phone so the end result for every platform looks great. Your first see the INDEX page were you see all the other pages listen. Simply use the arrows and numbers to switch to the page you like to go ! This menu will not disappear from chat so you can take you time reading up on the information. If there are more then 10 pages the number icons will disappear and you will just be asked to type in the number of the page you want to switch to. This action can be triggered by the magnifying glass.
Be aware has host of a server what your staff is all up to. All staff actions will be recorded into the Mod-Log channel on Discord. On this page you can see the action taken by your staff member, the reason why he took this action, time and who got warned.
Ever had the problem that you had 2 bots on the same prefix and both could not be changed ? Well we provide you to set your own prefix that will be stored in Curiosity's database. Now you can keep your server organized.
If you ever find yourself in a situation that you do not like one of the features in Curiosity or, if you want to prevent people from using certain functions. You can simply disable the function as you can see on the side. Once the command is disabled a (Disable Warning) message will appear on chat for 30 seconds notifying the user. In this case i would like to prevent staff from banning people of the server. This way you can customize the bot to your taste. The same way is applied for enabling the commands again.
It is very common on Discord that groups of trolls join random servers mainly to overflow the server with hate text, pornographic pictures and sometimes even try to find flaws in bots and server permissions. This so they could ban people when as you will not notice until to late. You will be prepared with Curiosity as at first you will be notified in the Mod-Log channel as said in Moderation, but also you have the ability to issue a channel lockdown. Lockdown will simply lock the channel for everyone to chat accept the staff. As soon as a LockDown is issued the channel will be blocked and no new comments can be created. You set a time for the auto unlock to happen as be seen in the picture. You can lockdown from 1 second up to 1 full day. If the situation has calmed down before the timer runs out you can issue a unlock using the same command. So when you get raided do not panic immediately !! First lockdown your channel and then you can continue panicking ;P
At this right moment we feature over 120 commands ready to be explored and many many more to come. Many people already connected to The Curiosity Project gave me a lot of great ideas what i highly appreciate. Right now i am making a SoundBoard that will over time contain a whole library of 100s of sounds that can be used on the voice chat. I was also requested to upload audio books on to Curiosity so people can listen to a variety of entertainment. Also i am working right now on the new help menu that will be completely optimized for all platforms.
If you like to have this bot on your server [CLICK HERE]
If you have more questions join Curiosity Discord [CLICK HERE]
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