Discussion: Recommended way of using createDMs?

Just wanted to ask if there are any recommended best practices for using createDM as you mention it is one of the calls to be careful with.

Any recommendations on how frequently it’s ok to call? Every other second? Every 10 seconds? Is it better to call with many user ids at once or separately for each? If nobody knows, that’s ok, I realize some of it is up to personal taste for risk, but wanted to check. Thanks!

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arandomnewaccount: Btw, I’m going to wait until I run a few more tests with the createDM endpoint (& organize some code in RESTapiwrap.py) until I give my recommendations on this. If anyone else has some more experience with creating DMs, feel free to jump in.

[cvcci]

the moment i tried to mass dm (I failed but got insta tapped only sent 1 message to my own account)

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arandomnewaccount: small update: creating DMs worked just fine with a browser automator. I could even send messages and my account did not get phone locked. However, there’re some restrictions as to who you can dm; you can only DM ppl that are in a member list.

The reason for this is that you need to get a user profile popup in order to create the DM. Only members from the member list have this popup. Indeed, you don’t have to click on a member in the member list to start a DM with that member (you can, instead, click on a mention of that user). But, if the data for that user has not been cached by the client (which is done by scrolling thru the member list), you cannot get a create DM popup for that user.

Btw, by user popup, I’m referring to this:

[thunderstorm010]

I wanted to update on something, don’t you think that the client is sending a “typing” update as we can see peoples writing ?

(I talk about “xxxx is writing …”)

Official bots are also able to simulate the wrinting.

https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#trigger-typing-indicator