DeferAsync on ModalInteraction not showing "bot is thinking..."

[raven juniper]

Hey!

I'm porting one of my bots to C#, and for some reason whenever I call DeferAsync from a Modal Interaction, it doesn't show the "bot is thinking..." message, it just closes the modal and displays nothing until I Followup
Basic idea of what i'm doing

[ModalInteraction("edit_image:*")]
public async Task EditModalResponse(string uuid,EditModal m)
{
    await DeferAsync(ephemeral:false);
    // do stuff
    await FollowupWithFileAsync(stuff)
}

In the previous library I was using this worked fine, is this something Discord changed recently or am I doing something wrong?

[gentle scroll]

I may be wrong on this but I don't think DeferAsync can be non ephemeral

[raven juniper]

I think it can be? I can see other people's deferred replies

Took a look at InteractionResponseType and found this mention on how a loading state is not displayed

The other library I was using before seems to be sending a "DeferredChannelMessageWithSource", which is 5

[raven juniper]

Ok, after digging through the source code, I found out that
RestModal sends Discord a DeferredChannelMessageWithSource, which is what I want
SocketModal, which is what I'm using, instead sends a DeferredUpdateMessage, which does not show a loading state

I'm not entirely sure on why there's a difference between Rest/Socket classes in regards to the deferred behavior

[viral light]

I has a parameter for it, at least on the Socket client.
I had to set ephemeral to true as I wanted it, but I didn't test with it false.

Looking at the code, something that is strange, is that you are not intended to do a Followup message.
From my usage so far and understanding of the documentation, after you defer the message, you should do "ModifyOriginalResponseAsync()".

My bot has been working great with this, it always shows the "bot is thinking" and that is always than replaced by the actual response.