The new slash command prefix triggers

[ooliver1]

The new slash command triggers, such as typing hello!, $, >, +, - all trigger the slash command text box.
This discussion is to be a center of all the issues users have found with why this is a bad decision, things that would be extremely frustrating for users:

• ! triggering inside the message
• wanting to type something like a stock $HCP
• adding to their previous message like +and this and that
• generic - within a message for demonstrating pause
• other similar calculations including >, +, =

NOTE: I am aware that right click -> suggestions exists, but this isn't very well shown to users and as far as I am aware, does not show in normal settings. Discovering this has been a bad experience which every user will get until they are told how to disable it.

[Zoddo]

I don't have the issue you mentioned. For example, typing hello! doesn't trigger the menu.

I think educating users about new slash commands is required for a smooth transition, and showing a suggestion when a user is using an old-style text command is a good idea. Note that they are only suggestions, they aren't selected by default. If you ignore the suggestion and just type your message, the message is correctly sent, as expected.

Many bot devs have already shown that this education is necessary as users don't notice slash commands when they get added and get confused when the bot drops text commands later.

[ooliver1]

the issue I have found personally is not that users do not know slash exists, but that they do not like it. I have asked many non-devs and they all do not like the UI at all (most likely because its quite cluttered with a lot of bots) and hard to find commands well

[sevenc-nanashi]

I don't like this personally.
I think this should be able to turn off by settings, or show Try using slash command! [Dismiss] under the textbox when user typed symbol.

[Rapptz]

You can luckily disable it by right clicking the message input box.

[sevenc-nanashi]

I didn't know that, tysm

[JABirchall]

The only problem with it and this is a general problem with slash commands as a whole, is that prefix commands can be used to know what bot will execute the command, but slash shows all the bots which have the same command. And sometimes the user just types and runs the command with out checking what bot that command is going to.

[greysdawn]

Honestly it just seems like poor UX to me. I'm not always trying to input a command when I use certain symbols in a message, and having slash commands pop up as suggestions to use is incredibly annoying, even as a dev. It feels like Discord looked at all the people saying "slash commands have awful user experience built around them" and decided to make them even more annoying :/

[Cruton45]

Why does discord decide to screw up bots with slash commands? The system is just terrible. Bring back commands via msgs.

[PhantHive]

You are funny bro👌

[TwilightZebby]

The system is just terrible.

Explain why you think this. Constructive feedback/criticism is always far better than a simple "it's terrible". :)