Help Needed

[keen igloo]

Hey , I've made a discord but using py , jishaku , async etc , but the bot isn't responding to the messages , slash commands work , yes all the intents are given to the bot in the dev portal , highest role is given , I'm unable to figure our the error .

[barren frost]

Hey, have you enabled this setting in dev portal?

After that, you also need to send intents when you open a connection to Discord.

[keen igloo]

yes yes

ive dont that

[keen igloo]

intents=true

is added in the code

[barren frost]

Are you using some specific library for handling Discord gateway?

Generally purely setting it to true won't do anything, unless some library that you use does some magic behind this setting.

[keen igloo]

ouh

[shy nacelle]

hello

[keen igloo]

discord.py

[barren frost]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quickstart.html#a-minimal-bot
Heres example how to set intents

Basically for it to receive message_content as example, you do:

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True

client = discord.Client(intents=intents)

[keen igloo]

ive set that 👍

[barren frost]

Instead of "true"?

[keen igloo]

it is true

[barren frost]

Alright, thought you set true in different place.

Generally best would be to post code here, otherwise it's hard to debug.

[keen igloo]

its a lot of folders

def init(self, *args, **kwargs): # Fix typo: *arg -> *args
intents = discord.Intents.all()
intents.presences = True
intents.members = True
super().init(command_prefix=self.get_prefix,
case_insensitive=True,
intents=intents,
status=discord.Status.do_not_disturb,
strip_after_prefix=True,
owner_ids=OWNER_IDS,
allowed_mentions=discord.AllowedMentions(
everyone=False, replied_user=False, roles=False),
sync_commands_debug=True,
sync_commands=True,
shard_count=2)

    self.lavalink: Client = None

here you go

[barren frost]

Alright, and how do you handle non slash commands?

[keen igloo]

prefix

for ex:- .help

.ping

etc etc

[barren frost]

Yes, but are you parsing this all in on_message event?

Functionality of normal commands is separate from slash commands.

[keen igloo]

yea , as i said before , slash commands are working , but the bot isnt responding when using prefix commands , mentioning the bot

async def on_message(self, message):
if message.author.bot:
return
ctx = await self.get_context(message, cls=Context)
await self.invoke(ctx)

this is my on message block

[barren frost]

And you are handling these commands this way as example?

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.author == client.user:
        return

    if message.content.startswith('$hello'):
        await message.channel.send('Hello!')

Hm

[keen igloo]

im stuck here

im not good in discor.py , as u might have guessed . , still learning

[barren frost]

Hmm, I see. I guess without more code, I personally cannot correctly guess what could be the cause as I don't know how your bot is structured.

[keen igloo]

its on github

[tender relic]

where is it on github?

[keen igloo]

https://github.com/darknight156/CypherMain

i fixed the databse file acccess issue locally, rest the code is same

[barren frost]

Alright, just to check, can you make get_prefix function simply return some hardcoded prefix without checking database and all, and see if it works?

[keen igloo]

k i can do that

[barren frost]

You can even make it simply init(command_prefix=".")

Without touching the function itself

[keen igloo]

okk

[undone harness]

hi I can help u

[keen igloo]

thanks , the project is on github , idk where the error is , it would be helpful , if u find that for me

[undone harness]

hi

[keen igloo]

hi

any fix you found ?

[autumn remnant]

i smell help

i think we need a code inspector in this server

[civic perch]

hello my name is siddhant i am from india and i want to prepare for gsoc 2026 and currently i know only basic python that also not properly and i want to pursue deep learning what should be my furthur steps