Announcements Enrollment

[logandgsmith]

Now that we've created an Announcements role that club members can subscribe to, we need to make a simple command for ALBot that allows members to enroll/de-enroll from it. There are many solutions for this issue.

Possible solutions:

Have ALBot post a message in the rules channel (or possibly a new channel... subscriptions?) that you can react to to join

• Pro: Joining/Leaving is as easy as clicking a button
• Pro: We can roll joining projects into this new cog
• Con: What are Discord's reaction/watching limits
• Con: If the bot is down and someone reacts will the bot pick it up?

Use the normal invocation to join Announcements role

• Pro: The spam would drive attention to the new role/command
• Con: Typing the command is more effort than clicking a button
• Con: Someone would need to ensure that this information persists until we have the Club Backend correctly configured
  • Alternatively, you could set up a cronjob for now?

[hjarrell]

Lets go with just !join announcements or !announcements for now. So add a feature for the bot to give a user the announcement role when they run that command. Some resources: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/commands.html

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html?highlight=role#discord.Role

https://github.com/ufosc/albot-and-albota/blob/develop/cogs/projects.py#L63