Veteran System

[PaxAndromeda]

As opposed to Statbot which currently uses the user's latest server join date, Instar will store the user's original server join date on DynamoDB. This will ensure that even if a user leaves the server and rejoins later, their Veteran progress is not lost.

This system will also ensure that only one veteran role is present on a user at a time (so they don't have 1 year veteran and 2 year veteran roles).

[PaxAndromeda]

Thought: Likely there should be two fields in DynamoDB to cover the join date as well as whether the bot has issued a congratulations for a particular year. This would prevent scenarios where a user rejoins and the bot congratulates them (potentially repeatedly) for the same year.

Thus, the fields would be:

• JoinDate (datetime)
  • The first time the user is seen. By default, when the user first joined.
  • However, since there are ~3,800 people already in the server, this will be backfilled with the first time a user has sent a message if no "user has joined" message exists.
• IssuedCongratulations (int)
  • Integer here, so the bot only congratulates a user if their current year-of-service exceeds this number.
  • Default 0.
  • Name is subject to change. "IssuedCongratulations" is a bit vague.