feat(plugin): CustomIdle

[waresnew]

Fulfills Vencord/plugin-requests#199

Main feature is changing the timer until your status gets set to idle (or preventing auto-idle forever)

There's also a confirmation notification where it'll let you stay idle, even if you come back to Discord

You'll stay idle until you click "Exit idle"

[waresnew]

ngl i think it'd be better to do like a "You are currently still idle. Click the button to exit idle" bar instead of the grace period

also bc the way I animated the grace period notification is kinda ugly

lemme change that

[Vendicated]

keep in mind that this idle timer is coupled with mobile notifications. so if you set it to a very high number or disable it outright, it might break mobile notifications

[waresnew]

keep in mind that this idle timer is coupled with mobile notifications. so if you set it to a very high number or disable it outright, it might break mobile notifications

oh ok i'll make a more precise patch for disabling then

[waresnew]

aight it won't affect mobile notifications now (it'll respect the setting in vanilla discord)

you can see here:

^ I'm online (disabled auto-idle) but I'm afk

Also changed the "grace period" thing to this:

[Golonchy]

Cool af

[Wraaath]

Bump

[R00tB33rMan]

Did some testing with this and feel it’s ready for use. Vesktop currently does not handle Idling very well and this as a workaround seems like a fair consideration to me. Could not produce any bugs with this branch. At this time, I have to run four Discord tabs, instead of two to keep my Discord online at all times, which is incredibly inefficient. How ready would you say this is or what’s blocking this from being added to the plugin library, @Vendicated?

[JosTheDude]

Requesting addition here, works well

[Kromilan]

I was deperatly looking for a plugin like this. When I have Discord open on my second monitor and have an eye on it, I am there. Hands on my keyboard and mouse, and always an eye on Discord. But I still get set to idle when I don't actually click into the client for too long and then they think I'm not available and nobody messages me any more :( I'm so glad there's a plugin in development to fix this!!
I have a question though. I am absolutely not familiar with github though, so sorry if this is a stupid question: can this already be installed and if so, how? I saw some people in the comments tested it, so I guess they installed it somehow, but then there are also comments suggesting it's not available yet?

[waresnew]

can this already be installed and if so, how?

it can be installed, but it's not an official plugin yet (vee needs to approve it first) so you need to install the dev version of Vencord. then you download the index.ts in this pull request and you move it to src/userplugins/customidle (create a folder)

however you won't get any support with dev versions/unofficial plugins like this one so you have to figure it out yourself in the end

[UglukOrc]

I'm so happy you've made this dream come true! I understand it isn't officially released, But, I found it amazing how BetterDiscord had something like it, and I was just wondering beyond wonder why Vencord didn't have any option for it! Thanks @waresnew

[Vendicated]

How ready would you say this is or what’s blocking this from being added to the plugin library, @Vendicated?

@R00tB33rMan there's nothing blocking it from being merged, it's just that i haven't gotten to it yet! there's quite the backlog of pull requests so it sadly takes a while sometimes. anyway ill look at this some time in the coming few days

you (and anyone reading this) can always help by testing open pull requests early and testing their functionality. see if all works as expected, if there are any bugs or if there is any behaviour that you think might be confusing, then leave constructive feedback to the author

for example in this pr it'd be good to test & report if this causes any issues / edge cases with mobile notifications or if those work flawlessly

[Vendicated]

please add a readme file

[waresnew]

ok it looks like a lot of people use this plugin to partially solve idling while the window is in the foreground

i'm not sure if it's feasible to globally capture user input even when the window's unfocused

in terms of formatting, i can't access vscode rn so i'll fix it in like 10 hours

i'll add a readme in a moment

[Nuckyz]

The way this is currently done has a big problem. The same function that handles setting mobile notifications to true is the function that sets the idle. It is ran using a setInterval as seen here:

Modifying IDLE_DURATION to MAX_SAFE_INTEGER causes "C" to run on loop non stop. But also, modifying it means you are still making setting mobile notifications depend on the new idle timeout, because it changes how often it does the checking, even though you made the check itself not depend on the new idle timeout

[Nuckyz]

I have applied my suggestion of a better handling for showing the notice, and also better formatting. But the issues I mentioned are still present

[waresnew]

oh, i see

edit: it looks like that setInterval is only run when on web discord (I only tested on desktop so ig that's why I didn't notice)

i'm a bit busy rn so i'll add a patch for that in a few days

ty for reviewing

[waresnew]

ok i just realized that setInterval's delay has to be a 32 bit integer

so MAX_SAFE_INTEGER was making it overflow to 0 💀

technically this made it so the setinterval was still being run but this probably caused lag

[Vendicated]

so this still needs work if i'm understanding correctly? marking as draft accordingly

[waresnew]

ok it won't prevent you from being AFK on web installs now

i'm gonna unmark it as draft now

[Nuckyz]

Great fix, just these three nitpicks and it should be ready

[waresnew]

okk made the changes 👍

[Nuckyz]

Thank you for the new plugin!

[UglukOrc]

Thank you for the new plugin!

Hol up! This working now?? @Nuckyz

[Nuckyz]

When it gets released to the main branch, yes

[R00tB33rMan]

Thank you all for your hard work. I really appreciate everyone's interest in improving the user experience and am glad that this was merged through everyone's availability and persistence.