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Recently, I decided that I wanted to contribute to some GitHub projects, and I eventually stumbled onto a Discord bot that seemed fun. The main reason I wanted to contribute to it was because an issue on the repository wanted to change the project's storage system from MongoDB to SQLite. Anyway, I talked to the person who made the bot and got assigned the task. The next day, I began setting up the discord bot, only to encounter an error complaining about the discord bot token.

I knew this would happen, so I decided to create my Discord bot and get it ready for testing. I began searching for the setup guide only to realize one thing.

There was no setup guide.

To find the environment variables to run the bot, I had to scour through the source code, I eventually found the discord bot token variable name, so I booted it up again.

Now it's complaining about discord intents.

Nothing was telling me what to do to properly set it up.

As I said, there was no setup guide.

At this point, I gave up. I enabled every possible setting & permission in my discord bot and reran the code.

More errors, but it ran.

By now I've spent more time getting the bot set up than actually working on anything. I am still working on this project, and once I iron out the last errors, I can start working on this project, all because there was no setup guide.

TLDR: Please add setup guides for your projects.

Everyone was changing their channel names to pretend to be somebody on the Slack, you know, for the funny.

But, this is when an opportunity for the mysterious group The Squatters came up. You see, they had a mission, to “squat” channel names and ransom them off for Blåhaj (Blow-Hai, “blue shark” in Swedish), a shark from IKEA commonly seen as a trans icon for many. They also mentioned that they wanted to make people WannaCry.

Let's look at some of their victims:

One victim, who we will call “S” had her channel name stolen, and The Squatters demanded 20 Blåhaj to return the channel name back to her. Being a pacifist she said no. They could not extort “S” for her channel name.

Another victim, “F” had his channel name stolen. He didn't really say much.

The last victim was not a pacifist, but was instead a proactive person. Let's call her A. A was not a big fan of her channel being stolen and would have deactivated The Squatters 's account, but sadly squatting was not against the code of conduct. A eventually told off this mysterious group and they just left without a fuss.

But who is this mysterious group? I managed to get in contact with this group, and here's what they said:

Q: So who are you really A: A group of people sitting on toilets across the world. We squat while squatting.

Q: Why did you squat so many innocent channel names? A: You gotta squat the squat.

Q: Your embassy was seized and archived by the commie team. What do you have to say about it? A: Honestly fair

Q: Do you plan on making a comeback? A: idk ask my bladder

It's still unknown who the Squatters are, but it's assumed they live in Sweden based on their love for Blåhaj and their GeoIP. Vem vet? Inte mig.

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