Finding a good discord bot is hard. Don't argue it is. If you think it is not then you have never tried.
What is a good Discord Bot?
In simple terms I have learnt it means one that does 100 things but you only need one thing from it. It does that one thing better than the other 100 bots that also do that thing.
So to follow here are a few of the ones I have recently reviewed that will make life a bit simpler and fun in your server
They are a ragtag bunch
Mostly discord bots are all about sharing memes and Pokemon... Need I say more? I think this line serves well to separate the above title from the titles below.
Mee6
Mee6 is on every single list of recommended bots not because it is amazing it is just because it is simple.
It has a levelling system, simple moderation and auto-moderation, a welcome message thingy and you can schedule messages.
If you pay for premium you can get some nifty custom commands mainly related to assigning roles etc. Just a simple bot for the basics.
YAGPDB
If you do not mind doing a bit of effort and reading some docs then YAGPDB which stands for Yet Another General Purpose Discord Bot has the least fluff and most power.
Most of these general purpose bots that taut moderation focus heavily on roles and ranking which personally I do not understand.
Like what do imaginiary rewards like badges and roles matter... Pay me fucks.
YAGPDB is powerful that is all you need to know.
Dank Memer
A extremely popular bot that does not completely underwhelm.
It has a pretty good currency system which is backed by some sarcastic commands and obviously memes.
Really this bot is only to be added with the specific intent that you do not expect anything but to give that one asshole in the server at 3am something to type.
It has a lot of commands for simple minds. To be fair I did not really test it all that much before removing it. I am sure it is great if you have friends...
CCTip ~ Crypto
A simple tipping bot for BTC, ETH and ERC20 tokens. It also has others but they are probably irrelevant...
It also has a daily claim app where you can get some more random tokens and internal exhange using Uniswap protocol.
The devs are very active on it and have also launched a payments api. So definitely useful for those discord bets let them pay up.
Games
You would think it is a simple thing to find a trivia bot that has a leaderboard and is just fun with actual general knowledge questions. Now in the discord world this is not the case and most seem to use the Open Trivia Database which for some reason does not seem to have a single Who Wants to be a Millionaire question.
Instead, they have questions about games, anime and cartoons... I don't always read things. Anyway, the two trivia bots that are not bad and dedicated to trivia only. Yes, a discord bot that does a single thing and does not also try to take over the server.
The main two I found which give different gameplay options and is fun are TriviaBot with 90 000+ questions and Trivia Bot that uses openTB... I do not name these bots ok that is just what they are called.
I would have listed GamesROB but they have a limit on active players per game which I find silly. GamesROB though does have a bunch of mini games like connect 4 and hangman which are good.
Questing
Two RPG bots I like are Idle RPG and Discord Dungeons, if only because they are not Pokemon games and Discord Dungeons specifically because I want to play with their custom quest builder which again seems like something very powerful and this RPG bot at least stays on track with what it is supposed to do.
I am still on the lookout for a proper experience management and levelling bot that maybe also has a versatile currency system but for now those few will get things going and not much else is required.
Images from discord and cover from <a href="https://top.gg/'>Discord Bot list screenshot
I am having one of those moments...what the fuck is a discord bot?
Why? Just why?..
It kinda makes sense I think. Since we automate everything why not have a bot for discord. really surprised the politicians do not use them yet but then again bots are not yet at the level of causing discord that humans are :)
If we automate everything we could just sleep while bots write our Hive posts and comments.
Now you have started me wondering if that actually is what half the people on Hive are doing :)
:D Exactly! Finding a good (free) app to play music from my phone is also agony. There's just too many apps that play music. Can I hire you to do that for me?
What do you mean to play music? Are there specific things you want? I just use google play 🤷♀️ ... Maybe you want special features?
I want it to be available without internet connection. I want it to show the folders that I've copied the music in. And I want it to play the music from that specific folder only that I've chosen. And also, this is important, I want it to play the music in specific order according to the file name as I name the music on my computer before I copy it to the phone: 01_music_name, 02_music_name etc. Most players just ignore the file name and arrange, and play the music alphabetically what stands in preferences so that I would have to put the number in preferences in front of the artist name and doing that is far more annoying than just changing the file name. And as I have to do this several times a week, doing playlists in phone is also too much trouble.
And it needs to be free and it can't have too many adds in it and the adds can never interrupt the music playing.
The app that I now use is Audify music player but it has suddenly started to have a mind of it's own, it starts to play music on it's own whenever it want's and the app is't even on. I mean visible. I have to go to settings and find the app there and force it to stop. And it has also started to get stuck when I use it.
But yeah, perhaps I can do the app comparin myself and not make you do that annoying shit. :D
Not sure there are few that really do it well, I only use the play one but I saw today they ended that and now I just changed it to Youtube Music but I think for folder specific things I would use ES File Explorer and the ES Player.
I'll try that. Thanks for the hint, although my text was more like a rant than a plea for help. No. Actually it also was a plea for help. More than anything it was a plea for help. :D
I use Youtube Music, also. It's great. It does offer the option to download music. I think it's 10$ USD a month. No ads.
That's nice. Although what I need is a music player that plays music I already have in my computer as mp3:s and I copypaste that to my phone and want to play it in specific order according to the file name.
Found a new app that I'm trying out if it's any good.