Why is the message content intent being removed?

[AbhishekEdirisinghe582]

You guys are removing the message content intent, which is gonna be a huge problem for beginner developers and also us devs.

we will need to get our bot verified, and we will have to use slash commands. we already had a massive setback when danny stepped down from the discord.py api developement, and now when you guys disable the intent, we bot devs are screwed cuz text based commands will be gone and the only way to view those is by watching videos and it will be history to see text based commands. pls dont remove the message content intent

[Stalruth]

If you aren't able to implement slash commands, you can have your users @-mention the bot in command messages to continue using message content based commands (e.g. @Bot ping).

In addition to that, there will be new tutorials and new documentation that will show application commands and they'll hopefully overtake the older, now broken, tutorials in time - some libraries are already using Application Commands in their Getting Started documentation, and as the Message Content Privileged Intent deadline approaches we'll hopefully see the rest of the extant library docs reflect this too.

Yes this is a huge change, but it isn't insurmountable.

[AbhishekEdirisinghe582]

well, i still prefer the message content intent not being removed

[advaith1]

nothing is being removed; the message content intent is being created and made privileged. you can learn about it at https://dis.gd/mcfaq, but your preference is not really relevant. bots should already be using slash commands anyway, and learning based on watching videos is typically a bad idea since they're typically outdated anyway

[TheKaushikGoswami]

Agreed^^
I don't think slash commands are so hard to set to buffle about it. Most of the libraries has well-written docs about it's usage and functions.
You can and should read the docs and try to learn from them rather than searching for videos on them.

[i0bs]

we will need to get our bot verified, and we will have to use slash commands.

I believe there's a misunderstanding between your interpretation of how the message content intent will impact bots starting April 2022 and onward. This link here should and will go over most of the commonly asked questions surrounding the existence of this privileged intent, which I highly recommend reading.

[...] and now when you guys disable the intent, we bot devs are screwed cuz text based commands will be gone and the only way to view those is by watching videos and it will be history to see text based commands.

This plays into the first part here, but, text-based commands won't be "gone" if your bot is unverified. Subsequently, if you are a verified bot, requesting for this privileged intent based off of usability of this command format will not be feasible, as confirmed by Discord staff. You're better off working with interactions which debatably are a more sound approach to bot commands in terms of UX and consistency.

On an unrelated note, you've mentioned that discord.py's shutdown has been a huge setback for Python developers in the development community thus far. I suggest looking at the current community resources for Discord libraries written in Python that have interactions support/implementations, and moving forward from there for maintainability.