Add an opt-out and opt-in feature for pinging you when your line quivers

[Peter-developer01]

So I've been reviewing my inbox and I see there:

• posts from Charcoal HQ (I did opt-in manually);
• a comments, replies, or posts from people who noticed my own;
• and your Utility Bot's "your fish is ready!".

It was fun in the first times. However when you start to see so much "your fish is ready!" items, this is starting to be annoying.

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I'm requesting a new command that would allow me to opt-in or opt-out the fish pings.

For example,

• the command for opt-out would be something like "optout fishpings";
• the command for opt-in would be something like "optin fishpings".

You can store the config for each user in the, for example, JSON file. You can of course select any file format you like.
And remember, to avoid the confusion, you store the keys as user IDs, not user names.

[PlaceReporter99]

Storing the user IDs would be impossible. I’ll store the usernames instead. A text file containing those who opted out should be enough. I’ll have to use os.system to commit the changes while the program is running.

[Peter-developer01]

Why you can't store the user IDs? Storing usernames would be a bad idea because two users can have same usernames, chat allows it.

[PlaceReporter99]

OakBot sends messages with the usernames, not the user IDs. It would be impossible to tell whether (for example) it was user with an ID of 1 or user with an ID of 2.

[Peter-developer01]

Ah, thanks. No better variant to store this then.

[Peter-developer01]

Also, don't forget to make an command to opt-in the pings, if the user wants.

[PlaceReporter99]

I am testing an implementation

[PlaceReporter99]

I’m adding a database to this, the command will be setting fishping false to opt out. You will be opted out by default.