[Feature Request - RemindMe] Ability to send a reminder into a channel

[Dalarialus]

Sorry for the second request, but I thought it better to have two separate requests, rather than two in one :)

Would it be possible to have the ability to announce a reminder into the channel from which the request was made (like a public reminder) rather than simply by direct message?

Thanks :)

[Dalarialus]

Sorry, it looks like this is actually similar to an old, closed issue #29

I'm not sure if anything ever came of that one though.

[PhasecoreX]

That issue was made, then mainly discussed in my support server, and then I guess closed here. From what I remember, I pretty much said no to it since it could be abused by users targeting all 20 of their available reminders at one channel, annoying others, as well as the fact that the backend would need quite a bit of rewriting to support sending and managing reminders for a channel.

For the former, I could just limit it to admins being the only ones allowed to create/edit/repeat/delete reminders for channels. There's no way I'd allow all users to do this. They would be more channel announcements than reminders.

The latter is still an issue. I did do a rewrite recently overhauling everything, however it's still not in a state that can send to channels instead of just DMs. There would need to be duplicated storage and code for tracking reminders per channel, instead of per user. Plus a whole admin-only command tree for managing the reminders for each channel, which as far as I know would be duplicated code with the DM versions of these commands.

I dunno, seems like quite a bit of work for something that could be accomplished by using the fifo and say cogs. I'll leave this open for now, as I'm going to (at some point, maybe) look into just how much work this would be. But do let me know if fifo and say cogs accomplish what you want done here.