v2: SpongeChat[?], the second coming

[daniwasonline]

Welcome to v2! This release brings much-needed improvements, new features, and new uses of the Discord API itself. The bot's been remade from the ground up with a much-needed fresh coat of paint based off of the create-discord-bot boilerplate, a stable multi-channel history, slash commands, and much more!

Below is a (non-exhaustive) list of what's new, and what's changed:

What's new

• Rewritten based on create-discord-bot with a very flexible core, supports slash commands & actions (context menu) at launch
• kV [internal codename], a Valkey/Dragonfly-compatible key-value database system capable of fast reads/writes in-memory
• Memories, an efficient context window / conversation history system capable of per-channel conversations & logging
• Imagine, the direct successor to imageGen in v1; accessible through passive activation (talking in a channel where SpongeChat is listening) or through a command, /imagine
• Silent mode, to make it shut the f*ck up when it's yapping too much
• Instruction sets, a quick way to change SpongeChat's personality in passive activation
• Direct context windows [to be renamed], the direct replacement for Readback; this can be found by right-clicking any SpongeChat-answered message and clicking "Direct context window"

Most, if not all features are present in 2.0. If we missed something, please open an issue and we'll try to get to it as soon as possible.

Cheers, everybody! 🥂

Pull Requests

• [v2/feat] Image generation command by @daniwasonline in [v2/feat] Image generation command #58
• [v2/refactor] Move interactionCreate to dedicated file/module, add Actions (context menu) support by @daniwasonline in [v2/refactor] Move interactionCreate to dedicated file/module, add Actions (context menu) support #59
• [v2/refactor] General chat improvements & code cleanup by @daniwasonline in [v2/refactor] General chat improvements & code cleanup #60
• [v2/bug] Addressing context overloads by @daniwasonline in [v2/bug] Addressing context overloads #65
• [MAJOR] The v2 master-PR by @daniwasonline in [MAJOR] The v2 master-PR #55

New Contributors

• @renovate made their first contribution in Configure Renovate #13
• @Butterroach made their first contribution in [enhancement] let spongy wongy know if the reply is from itself or another user #35
• @daniwasonline made their first contribution in [v1] Implement Zustand to fix history states #54

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spongedsc/SpongeChat/commits/2.0.0

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[Butterroach]

@renovate made their first contribution