make error message on "get current time for user" ephemeral

[Zuurkern]

When you try to check someone's timezone, the bot posts a message in the current channel for everyone to see:

All other messages are "only visible for you", I think this behavior should be consistent for this error message as well.

[laralove143]

my thinking for that was so that the user this command is used on can see the message and set their timezone, but i guess that can be done naturally by the command's author telling the user to set their timezone

[Zuurkern]

Hi @laralove143, I was on holiday so only now got the time to respond.

Your reasoning makes sense, however people have inadvertently taken a disliking to the bot because of this message being visible for everyone every time they try to get the timezone for someone who hasn't set it up.

An even better solution would be to show two messages: one to the command's author telling them that user hasn't set up their timezone yet, and one to the user in question, asking/reminding them nicely to set up their timezone because [user] queried it. I don't know if that is technically feasible, however.

[laralove143]

its sadly not, ephemneral messages only work for the command's author, that limitation keeps me from doing a lot more but it is what it is

so ill simply make the message ephemeral and expect the problem to be solved through natural conversation

[Zuurkern]

Okay, fair enough :-)

Thanks!