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Adding Discord Posts

The process for adding Discord announcements to the online archive can be partially automated using the following steps:

  1. Install the Vencord client mod for Discord.
  2. Go to Settings > Vencord Settings > Plugins and enable the "ViewRaw" plugin.
  3. Hover over the message you want to add and click the <> button. This will display a modal containing the raw message contents.
  4. Click the "Copy Message JSON" button.
  5. In the Flashpoint website repository under utilities, create a file named discord_message.json.
  6. Paste your clipboard contents into the file and save.
  7. Open the terminal under utilities and run deno run -A import_discord_message.js. This will automatically extract the message's contents, download any attachments and add an entry to discord.json.
  8. Repeat steps 3-7 for any other messages.

Considerations

  • Discord's implementation of Markdown is more lenient than most Markdown parsers. You may need to make some changes to the message's Markdown in order for it to render properly.
  • You will need to update channel names, custom emojis, and pinged users/roles to use their actual names instead of their raw IDs.
  • The name of the message's author should reflect the name they are most commonly known by. If the author's name needs to be changed, update the respective message's author field in discord.json.
    • Exceptions should only be made if the username is directly correlated to the message's contents, which is typically only the case for April Fools' jokes.
  • In order for custom emojis to be displayed, you will need to download them and add them to the Markdown parser's list of custom emojis. Follow these instructions:
    1. Go to https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/<id>.png, with <id> representing the emoji's raw ID.
    2. Download the image to /static/images/news/discord/emojis, with its filename being the emoji's name.
    3. Open nsfuncs.js, and under markedEmoji, add the emoji to the emojis property. The field should be the emoji's name, while the value should be its filename.