Zerda

Zerda is a Discord bot that assigns a temporary role to people playing games so that they sort higher in the user list. You can configure which games Zerda assigns the playing role for. This will allow people to more easily find matches and join each others' matches from Discord.

Invite Zerda to your server

Need help? Join the support server here

How it works

When the bot joins your server, it will create a role called "Currently Playing" that is configured to display users separately. Anybody playing a supported game will be assigned this role. If they stop playing, go offline, or change their status to "Do Not Disturb", the bot will remove the role.

What if I want the bot to stop tracking my status?

The bot will not assign you the "Currently Playing" role if you do any of the following:

• Disable "Display current activity as a status message" in your Discord settings.
• Change status to "Do Not Disturb"
• Change status to "Invisible" (or actually go offline)

What if I want to remove the bot from my server?

Kicking the bot and deleting the "Now Playing" role will effectively clean up all traces of the bot in your server.

How to use

Required:

1. Invite the bot to your server.
2. Make sure the bot has Manage Roles and Send Messages permissions.
3. Make sure the bot's role is sorted above the "Currently Playing" role.
4. Add some games to track (See Commands)

Optional:

• Change the color of the "Currently Playing" role.
• Reorder the "Currently Playing" role to determine where members are shown in the list. Remember to keep Zerda's bot role ordered above "Currently Playing"!
• You could also disable Display role members separately from online members, but that sort of undermines the point of this bot.

Warnings

• The role must be named "Currently Playing" or the bot will not recognize it! (and will create another role).
• The bot's role needs to be sorted above the "Currently Playing" role, or it will not be allowed to assign the role.
• Zerda makes a lot of noise in your server's audit log. Every time it adds or removes the a role, it makes a new entry in the log. You can filter events by user and by action type, so this isn't a huge problem, but it's worth calling out up front.

Commands

This bot uses slash commands exclusively. You need to use /app get to get a game's application ID from a user's current activities, because Discord does not have a public list of this info, for some reason.

• Get a user's activities (including applications)
  • /app get [user: <User ID here>]
  • To get the ID for the game you want to track, use this command on a user playing that game (or yourself).
• Start tracking an application (Requires Admin)
  • /app add application-id: <Discord app ID here>
• Stop tracking an application (Requires Admin)
  • /app remove application-id: <Discord app ID here>
• List all of the applications being tracked in the server
  • /app list

Thanks

Thank you to the following Discord users who helped me build and test Zerda:

• conscars (366651903486197770) - Code review
• shellyherself (119915881680601089) - Code review and testing
• yu.nie (165225595733671937) - The fennec fox icon
• iceyembers (153214243754344448) - Testing
• precutodst (211104510251106304) - Testing
• All the unsuspecting souls playing Halo games (Infinite, Custom Edition, and The Master Chief Collection) in the "Halo Modding Reclaimers" (228263208299790338) server from October 20 - October 22, 2023.

Fun facts

Zerda gets its name from "Vulpes Zerda", the taxonomic name for fennec foxes, because much like fennec foxes, this bot is tiny, fast, and makes a lot of noise.

License

Copyright 2020 Mimickal
This code is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 license.
Basically, any modifications to this code must be made open source.