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Discord has pretty much figured out how to give CLIs an actual UX with their bots and slash commands. Midjourney is the largest of the Discord apps that have a
by pr337h4m 3y ago
Discord has pretty much figured out how to give CLIs an actual UX with their bots and slash commands.
Midjourney is the largest of the Discord apps that have achieved mainstream usage, despite being CLI-only.
- diggan 3y agoHuh? The UX is pretty much the same as in the terminal; "Here is a command, a small snippet of help text and a bunch of options, figure it out", not sure what Discord improved upon here. Autocomplete?
- anthk 3y agoSlash commands predate Discord by large.
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- latexr 3y agoBots and slash commands have been a staple of chat for decades before Discord. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_commands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_co... They’re no different from other CLIs, UX-wise. But because they are intermingled with chat, you can ask for help from a human right there.
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- esafak 3y agoThis is funny on multiple levels. For one, it is IRC that introduced these commands decades ago, as others have observed. The second is that the Discord "UX", especially for Midwinter, is atrocious. You couldn't pay me to use it.
- cedws 3y agoI think pr337h4m is pointing out that Discord commands can return much more than text. Unlike in a terminal, the result of a command can be rich text, images, videos, and syntax highlighted code.
- esafak 3y agoI'd like to make a correction. I meant to say Midjourney. Midwinter was an interesting game set in a snow-covered post-apocalyptic world induced by a meteorite strike in 2040.