I would guess this was already suggested but my search yielded no results so here it is.

How about allowing botbrs to self-assign format roles so that when an ohb is created/starting ppl who have the role can get a notification?

It could be used for help seeking too, as in the following examples:

- @aym how tf do you tune the buzzer?
- @zxbeep how do you edit pattern sequence in beepola again?

What?

hehehe

i still think this is a good idea, though with respect to the help seeking thing i guess there'd be a little bit of a "plz don't abuse the pingability" aspect if anyone can @ it. i'm not sure if regular users can ping e.g. @XHBr or not.

definitely think it'd be cool to be able to sign up for "notification when an XHB of a given format is hosted/scheduled/about to happen" - basically envisioning that the ping for the format just goes out in addition to the @XHBr one, which would require as little overhead work as possible

i think this has been discussed before and there's more formats than roles a server is allowed to have?

nop the limit is 250 roles per server

Glad people are still talking about this

https://battleofthebits.com/academy/GroupThread/31411/Feat.+Req.+%3A+Format+roles+in+discord/#post154976

i stand with my point: if you only sign up for format x ohbs and never even get pinged for others or if you stop checking the page unless format x appears, it will take away a part of the site experience which is: check regularly and try out new things

at least can i have the alzheimer's role? or badge? sorry for asking the same question twice!

I'm not really able to meaningfully participate in XHBs nowadays precisely because there's no ability to filter things. Either I have to subscribe to all notifications for all formats (including several very common ones which I know through experience I just don't have any interest in), or I have to constantly monitor the site/chat to find something, and I don't have time to do either, unfortunately. An unfiltered stream of pings is just as bad (if not worse) than having none at all, since all the good stuff gets lost in the noise.

Maybe instead of Discord pings, it could be done here via web notifications, but idk how you do the sort that notify you while your browser's open, even if you're not on BotB.

Mostly suggesting it because it might be a bit easier than to set an elaborate bot on Discord, and would also be valid even after Discord's best-before date.

yeah, i agree with what Xaser is saying; personally i have never subscribed to the @XHBr role because i don't really want pinged for every kind of battle - i would just start ignoring them - but if i could filter down to the formats i was interested in, i would gladly accept pings (especially helpful when people schedule impromptu battles)

i sort of suspect it'd be a lot easier to make this happen in discord pings though vs coding a bespoke botb system, though i respect the idea of futureproofing lol; i think it should be as simple as adding, uh, 80-something additional "ranks" to the rank bot that currently assigns both user-colors and the @XHBr role. and making the existing announcement bot blast out an additional format-specific @ next to the @XHBr one. (or instead of, i guess, potentially.)